Why would he create us in the first place knowing he would have to destroy some of us by condemning us to hell? Or knowing that an innocent 5 year old girl would one day be brutally raped. Throw out that bullcrap "Free Will" answer people always give when they don't have an answer. I just wonder since I have two children, that I love far more than anything, that I wouldn't have created them in the first place if I knew one day I would send them to burn for eternity. So why would he create in the first place? If he exists, then it seems to me that someone like that if they were human and had children for the sole purpose of torturing them for doing something wrong, would be considered a monster, so why is he worshipped as an awesome being? Please answer, I will choose the best answer.
2007-06-21 07:51:53 · 11 answers · asked by headsplint 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok I am not religious and I amnot a believer but I think I can reasonably answer your question.... Ok imagine that when you create something that is where your influence on it life ends in a way.. form that point on there is millions of branching paths(choices, occurences etc) each one is potentially capable of occuring based on which previous paths are traversed. So when you bring a child into the world for example you say you wouldnt have brought them into the world if you one day knew they would burn in eternity, but what if its not your choice? what if its up to them to decide which path to take? Well imagine this, one day your child could have something bad happen to them, they could be raped, murdered, etc depending on the paths they take.. YOU cant control which paths they take.. you can set them up to make the best decisions about which life path to take but its up to them to make the final choice. You have no control over what choices your children make in their lives and it could end in trajedy or suffering but it could end in happiness and contentment. All this is just speculation on my part as I believe we were not created but rather we evolved and that we are the writers of our own destiny. I still think that life is all about the choices you make that determine where you end up but I dont think something created us.. but if it did I would assume the above is the only real explanation if it were true.
2007-06-21 08:04:53 · answer #1 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has Created You , And He has given you a choice
example if you were gonna steal a car he already knows that you will but if u dont then he knows that as well so entirly its up to you how you wanna control your life.. and didnt u ever heard of " what goes around comes around?" and if someone rapes a 5 year old girl dunt think they will next day drive a mercedes benz .. they will earn there punishment in the world , it isnt said that its all planned and done its your choice where you wanna Go POsitive Or Go Negative and God knows that Choice you make
2007-06-21 07:59:55 · answer #2 · answered by Jason M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until someone can show that the "Freewill Defense" is "bullcrap" (rather than just asserting it), I'll keep using it. One cannot have both free will and the impossibility that some will misuse that free will.
Furthermore, I don't think that hell is torture, or at least, not on God's part. He is merely giving what non-believers wanted... eternal separation from His presence. I believe that God will show non-believers how wrong they were about His character (mainly His goodness and justness) and when that happens, they'll realize just what they've lost and be filled with self-hatred and self-recrimination.
2007-06-21 08:47:48 · answer #3 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God governs the course of history so that, in the long run, His glory will be more fully displayed and His people more fully satisfied than would have been the case in any other world.
If we look only at the way things are now in the present era of this fallen world, this is not the best-of-all-possible worlds. But if we look at the whole course of history, from creation to redemption to eternity and beyond, and see the entirety of God's plan, it is the best-of-all-possible plans and leads to the best-of-all-possible eternities.
And therefore this universe (and the events that happen in it from creation into eternity, taken as a whole) is the best-of-all-possible-worlds.
2007-06-21 07:58:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's never condemned us to hell. he will punish (chastise) us, just as you would punish one of your children for wrongdoing (with sternness and love). All that is read in the Bible is not always literal. Especially Revelations. Most of Revelations is symbolic, with a truer and more profound meaning than mankind could ever imagine. Even Jesus spoke to the common people in parables. They didn't understand Him then and most still don't.........Jeremiah 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo,(behold, see) certainly (firmly) in vain (untruth ) made he it, the pen of the scribes is in vain.(untruth). Why would God let the scribes (writers) continue in untruth? So that all who ever lived are counted as fools, and found with sin, so that all will be saved. Saved is never found in the past tense in the Bible. Oh yes, it is spelled saved in many verses, but it always has a must be, shall be, can be, will be, could be, are to be, etc. As long as we are in these carnal bodies we are sinners. God ultimate goal is to be All in All, so therefore God will save all. All who are in Jesus in this lifetime, and all through punishments(chastising) in the next life. John 5:21 For as the Father raisth up the the dead, and quickeneth (vitalize) them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will.
2007-06-21 08:49:03 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is not any longer something in Scripture approximately God giving us a loose will, nor that the autumn led to such. there is even nevertheless a lot that states we are born slaves to sin, and that no guy desires God different than for the artwork of the Holy Spirit to deliver them there (and as a result the approach....and the why as to the must be "born returned"). God isn't the author of sin, yet all issues take place for His glory, and not something is exterior of His administration. (see Romans 9).
2016-10-18 06:46:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
headspint Many have an opportunity to become the children of God through the atonement. Many choose this imperfect temporary world over the eternal paradise God did create for his children. God allowed man to sin and through sin comes many bad consequences. God created man to join him in his righteousness in an eternal paradice. God is no monster but chose to pay the penalty of death for all of us, A perfect God did allow himself to be tortured and killed in your place so that you could have eternal life in paradise, You knowingly brought forth children in to this world knowing they could be tortured or killed? does this make you a monster? No God knows that we who accept the atonement he offers will have an eternity in paradise. God does not force you to accept his gift of life but this in no way makes him evil. step one in knowing God is understanding any righteousness and understanding you think you have had ot have come from the one who created you. A righteous creation could not be created by an unrighteous God...man is not righteous but God is absolute righteouness trust him and receive a gift of faith and through faith you will receive revelation.
2007-06-21 08:04:55 · answer #7 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's NOT human, can do whatever He wants to do, & he is not bound by what we can understand.
Besides that, this life is an illusion...ppl put more importance on this life and having a 'good time' than it is worth.
2007-06-21 08:00:27 · answer #8 · answered by Sassafrass 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you answered your own question...I don't believe GOd is omniscient....in terms of knowing what a soul with Freewill will do when tempted etc...however God IS omniscient when it comes to the fulfillment of his prophecy via the written word. Freewill exists for everyone UNTIL those who are predestined to do God's will at a given time are called out..r.eference Saul/Paul he hated christians and watched them be murdered etc...yet at that time God called him out to do God's will. predestined yet with freewill....get it?
to add more....satan was created "perfect in his ways full of knowledge and adorned with every precious jewel" etc...UNTIL sin/iniquity was found in him by his own freewill....God created his children with freewill and some fell on their own....just as some parents raise their kids, do their best and some end up being scum rapists and murderers etc...that right of freewill was given for a reason....to determine who was worthy to enter the Eternity. simple as that. unfortunately many folks including satan and the fallen won't be entering that time.
2007-06-21 07:56:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Good points, expect no reasonable answer
2007-06-21 07:55:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋