Maybe he spoiled Adam & Eve by giving them too much. Maybe God had to learn like any parent that when you forbid a child from doing something. The child will want to do what you forbade him most of all. Maybe God had to learn in the Old Testament that you have to teach by example. You do not tell your children "Thou Shall Not Kill" and then order them to kill EVERYONE including women & children in an invasion of a already settled country (Canaan). Maybe God had to learn like every parent. And the New Testament's Jesus Christ is when God got it right after 4.000 years of trial & error parenthood. A time when God was in the dark about how to raise kids as are most new parents?
2007-08-14 01:06:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
One fairytale is as valid as another.
All religions are superstitions. Arguing about such things is like arguing about the exact length of Superman's cape. Sometimes it's fun to do, but it really doesn't mean much.
2007-08-14 01:12:37 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I could agree with the "Parent" analogies, but I do think that God would change as a result of creating a universe.
I have pointed out before that God does become more merciful. From His angry beginings in Genesis (casting out Adam and Eve, the Flood, the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah) to the redemption of Nineveh in Jonah, to the birth of Christ.
2007-08-14 01:21:18 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Bad Day 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
humanity would have been better off if god had have said no to Adam when he asked for Eve as then Adam would not have gone to the tree and eaten god's fruit at all and we would not have any of this stuff now in owe life...
no wonder god has been down on the women of this would
2007-08-14 01:21:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting idea. But that would make Jesus a liar. God would certainly not be perfect in that case, if he could learn something, nor would he be loving as Jesus portrays him. This God would be immensely powerful, yes, but not all powerful, and would kind of negate most of what Jesus says, because it's based off of (or at least our interpretation of it is) the concept of an All Powerful God, not a merely immensely powerful one.
2007-08-14 01:12:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Remember, "god" is nothing more than a nonsense word made up by man to explain away all of the things we can't yet understand.
Why shouldn't you be allowd to do the same and make up some stories of your own. Carry on.
2007-08-14 01:14:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, God doesnt make mistakes. Man chose to rebel.
2007-08-14 01:10:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think if there is a god, he still doesn't have it right.
2007-08-14 01:10:29 · answer #7 · answered by hypno_toad1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋