Did God of Genesis HOPED that His creation will be GOOD ?

Question

Whenever someone asked the question,

if God Of Genesis is omnipotent, omniscience, omnipresent, and benevolent did this ?

answers from believer are

- You don't know how God work
- It's God's Will
- God Hope to get best in this
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if any of these are CORRECT then where is FREEWILL ?

My question, Did He Hope or He knew.

If He Hope, then you have to agree that He is not Omniscience and Omnipotent.

If He created PERFECT and we are still NOT PERFECT then He is not Omnipotent.

Word of God allows to kill people then He is not Benevolent.

Answer 1

Hold on...

"Did God of Genesis HOPED that His creation will be GOOD ?"

In Genesis He created and then He said it was good - not He hoped it would be - He said and it was....

When He created man He said it was "very good" and man was!

"Whenever someone asked the question, If God Of Genesis is omnipotent, omniscience, omnipresent, and benevolent did this?"

God is all these things, but we cannot fully know any of them since we are so imperfect.

We don't know God's will for us...

God did know what would happen... He is all knowing...

And knowing that we would fall from grace, He created us any way and gave us free will - He gave us free will knowing that some would reject Him - is not that ultimate love?

"My question, Did He Hope or He knew?"

Hope is a virtue of man, not of God. God knows and knew and still created us any way!

"If He created PERFECT and we are still NOT PERFECT then He is not Omnipotent."

He did not create us perfect - He created us as very good! But now we have the chance, after Jesus came of reaching perfection!

"Word of God allows to kill people then He is not Benevolent."

God is perfect, good, but man is not - fallen man killed and even wrote their own permission into the Scriptures... But God said - Thou shalt not kill.....

I don't think it was God's will that we kill!

Peace be with you!

Answer 2

I don't know why I am bothering to try to answer this, but the first chapter of Genesis says that God saw everything that he had made and behold, it WAS very good. It did not say that he hoped that it was, or hoped it would become so.

As for freewill, if we had not have had that from the beginning, Eve would never have plucked the forbidden fruit, and the earth would still be a paradise. After that, sin came into the world, and the first child born committed the first murder. God was not happy about that.

But I feel somewhat out of character playing Christian apologist, when I am really more on an Agnostic, especially as far as the Bible is concerned. I have said before that I believe that it is mostly sort of an allegory, especially the early chapters of Genesis.

I feel that so many people on here are only interested in arguing and debating, and the continual bickering between believers and non-believers is really a bore.

Answer 3

A few questions/problems I have with Genesis:

1) Why did God create so much life knowing (assuming that God is God and can see the future) he would wipe out many organisms during the (alleged) Flood?

2) What is with God's queer obsession with beetles? One in four species on Earth is a beetle. A bit creepy, considering the Bible's claims of an anthropocentric planet.

3) God calls his creation "good." Apparently God defines 'good' as a species which is susceptible to a whole range of diseases (this raises the question, Why did God create diseases?), poor eyesight and hearing (compared to other organisms), lumbar pains, and a whole host of other issues.

4) God must love his hydrogen. 3/4 of the universe's elemental mass is that of hydrogen.

Answer 4

God created, and never does the Bible say He "hoped" it was good, it says He "saw" that it was good.

If He created perfection, and we are not still perfect, it proves that He gifted us with free will. Your dad buys you a Mustang and gives it to you in mint condition. It's a perfect gift, but you can still run it into an overpass. Just because God chooses not to intervene when we sin, doesn't mean He CAN'T. There's an obvious difference.

Benevolent means "good." Good opposes bad. God made provisions for those things which threatened the wellbeing of His people to be eliminated. Would it be better for God to have ordered His people not to oppose evil? Just to stand there and take abuse, oppression, slavery, and the infiltration of demonic systems of spirituality into their religion?

Answer 5

God wants us to choose what is Good. CHOOSE. All things are laid out for us accept by our free will. This the great deal of a life time. Choose God and have eternal life in perfect love or to choose not to and therefore condemn yourself. God set up what is good not what is bad.

God set up is Omnipotent for God is sovereign
God is omniscience for He created all things for good.
God is omnipresent for He sees and knows all things , past present and future.

Answer 6

God KNEW that his creation(in context of Adam and Eve) was good. But as soon as mankind (Adam & Eve) ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the sinful nature came in. From that point on, all of mankind became IMPERFECT. That's why the Lord Jesus Christ had to come to die for all our sins. However, it boils down to one choice: choosing the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, then He will come and live in you, then you will become PERFECT. But if you don't accept Him, there's eternal punishment in Hell. The decision is your choice.
Finally, God loves the whole world and He is benevolent, patient and caring but remember that He's the God of Justice as well. He has given us the choice of Jesus Christ as His Gift but if we don't believe in Him, then God has no choice but to judge us to Hell. If souls end up going to Hell, God will not be happy because they didn't choose the right way and He desired that all should be saved. God is in control and the Mastermind!! Why don't you try Him?

Answer 7

He KNEW. It says He created the Earth and it was good. It was before the fall, so there wasn't sin right then. Adam and Eve had the CHOICE to either obey God and live or to break the ONE rule and eat the fruit of the tree of knowlege of good and evil. They were tempted and made a bad choice. He IS omnipotent-he didn't make the world perfect, but He could have. He wanted us to be able to choose whether or not we want to serve Him and praise Him, etc. Think about it-if you were God and you created the earth, would you want to make people so that they would worship you because they had no choice or would you want them to CHOOSE to worship you? It's much more honoring to you if they choose to worship/praise you--freewill. And God has done SO much for us. He could have just let us all die for our sins, but instead He sent His Only Son, Jesus, who is PERFECT and COMPLETELY without sin, to be tortured and die FOR US! We have done NOTHING to deserve that! But HE loves us so much. All we have to do is accept God, believe He sent His Son to die for our sins, and admit that we're sinners. We don't deserve it, but because God loves us so much, He made it so easy for us to get to Heaven-but we can only get there through Jesus. It's so simple, because He loves us-why would He WANT us to go to hell? He wouldn't, but if we don't do that one simple thing, we can't because we won't have been forgiven for all our sins. Heaven is a perfect place, so God's not going to let ANY sin in, because then it wouldn't be perfect anymore. I hope that helped.

Answer 8

the nature of the concept of god lays easy to the silliest pat answers like only god knows because he knows everything and god can do anything etc these specious tactics make logic and reason worthless tools of discourse . if the non believer said that nothing can be everything substituting nothing for god then it would be quite amusing if not subject to ridicule .the waffling of the faithful is not even viable in politics and we all no about false promises.
evidence dictates that firstly there is insufficient reason to postulate god and all that is based on a false premise is false as well .
peace out

Answer 9

The God you are referring too is Jehovah and he created man(meaning Adam, but also includes Eve) with FREE WILL. He gave them a strict and clear commandment:
"And Jehovah God proceeded to take the man and settle him in the garden of E´den to cultivate it and to take care of it. And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.” (Gen. 2:15-17)

So they had to make choice to obey god and live forever... or eat from the Tree and Die...(of course not instantly but gradually aging, getting sick. etc...then dying)

That's why we are not born perfect, cause we are descendants of the SINNING Adam and Eve.. they didn't have children till after they were casted out of the Garden Of Eden.

So Jehovah God Is Omnipotent and a loving God...But we have Hope.. for that's why Jehovah God almost instantly made prophetic arrangements for us to regain our perfection...but that's a whole other subject to long to explain here.

Take a look at the link below. It explains HOW and WHY Jesus was born. Which is connected to your question.

Answer 10

Nature is perfect, and provides for everything.
So everything that occurs in nature is good
(just because it's not good for you or me or anyone, doesn't mean it's not good)
We are capable of making choices, so we have free will (unless you let someone do your thinking for you, then you have given it up, but not to God)