and knows what is going to happen. Why did he flood the earth then give it another go KNOWING that it would end up sinful again? Do not say free will as this is irrelevant. If HE KNOWS what will happen then why repopulate the earth and try again? And for that matter why does a perfect being have to have more than one go at making mankind?
2007-08-21 05:33:53 · 22 answers · asked by thethinker 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Lord moves in mysterious ways my son.
Now sit down and don't ask awkward questions or I will have to tell you that you will be sent to hell.
2007-08-21 05:39:33 · answer #1 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes this would be the case if Bible prophesies are true. But they are not, at least most of them are not. Bible prophesies are like Nostrodamus prophesies, you can fit them to any time and place if you work at it a little. The law of averages says that some of these hit or miss prophesies will come true.
God cannot know the future or this known future would not be the future. God only knows probabilities, and He knows these better than anyone, better than the most brilliant scientist or statistition but God does not know what you will do until you do it. All this talk of divine predestination and fore-ordaination is silly, idiotic and ignorant. We are free to do whatever we can or will do. God doesn't make us do things, nor does god prevent us from doing things. God is just not concerned with our small myopic viewpoint. God is a big-Picture kind of entity.
I can prophecie, OK here goes - "At some future date when the moon goes dark and wars are upon the lands of the east, a great evil will arise and take hold in the hearts of men, causing them to waste away their time in idle pursuits and vain enterprises. At this time the great destroying angels will cause hurricanes and tornados to rain down upon the land in punishment for the evil men do. Then God will cause religious confusion so that one man will not understand another man, and Gods chosen people will be cast forth to wander for many years in the wildnerness. God will then send a leader, a prophet, a prince among men to teach wisdom and bring his people out of the wildneress. He will perform many miracles and heal the sick and raise the fallen. If God is well pleased He will visit bounty upon His people and they will live forever in happiness and peace."
Sound familiar? This could apply to anyone and at any time in history. When has there not been human error, when was there not pride and ignorance?
2007-08-21 05:56:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't recognize "the future". To God there is no time. He is omnipresent. Yes, this is very confusing but our minds can not yet grasp this concept until we are made whole by God.
Now why is free will irrelevant? You don't like that answer so you go searching for another? Are you going to continue to ask the same question over and over until you reach an answer to which suites your cause? The answer is free will. Sorry. God doesn't want drones... God created us and gave us free will so we could chose to be with Him. Why create something/someone that doesn't have a choice? That would be kinda pointless, I think anyway.
2007-08-21 06:00:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go back and re-read the beginning of the Flood story in Genesis 6. You will see that it talks about "the sons of God having 'relations' with the daughters of men". The results of this unions was the Nephiums (sometimes translated "giants"). It appears that there was some "hanky-panky" going on between angels and human which polluted the human gene line and was in danger of causing diseases, deformities, and possible even human extinction.
Noah and his family was the only unpolluted bloodline left. So the flood was not intended to wipe out "sin", but to wipe out the polluted bloodline of the human race. That it did.
So God was successful at doing what he planned with the flood - end all bloodlines but Noah's. He never planned for it to cure "sin". That was what God did at Calvary through the cross of Christ.
2007-08-21 05:43:30 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You bring up a very valid point, something I have personally struggled with comprehending. What you and I both are having trouble understanding here is the fact that yes God in fact can see the future so how can I make decisions without him knowing what I will choose. I decided after a while to look at this a completely different way though. God knows that all these atheist on RandS are going to choose not to accept Him but regardless of that he still pursues each and everyone of us like were his own children. God still gives us the decisions to make. Our lives are not set in stone, we make what we want out of each day he just in the end knows what we will choose.
2007-08-21 05:41:34 · answer #5 · answered by just trying to help 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As I see it, because the entire point is for humans to *freely choose* God's ways over our ways. If the world were perfect it would be easy to follow God and love our neighbors and all live together in perfect harmony. Think of the story of Job (which I feel much more comfortable thinking of as an allegory than as a true account)- in the story God takes everything from this man who has done nothing wrong, just to see if Job will lose his faith and his love for God. Free will is absolutely relevant, otherwise we're just a garden full of God's pet rocks and what would be the point of giving us minds and souls? "In the image of God" isn't about the body, it's about having the capacity to reason and to love.
2007-08-21 05:45:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi
You asked a good question, the issue is that god is of the present, and you knows that he is omnipresent and omnipotent, and indivisible.
He allow things to happen that you should respect him and know that he is God the creator of the Universe. He has the solution to all human challenges and is more willing and ready to make things for the betterment of Humanity. Including you my good Friend.
May I tell you plain that God is not intereste din your sin, or what you call since, for God is pure an donly those that are pure will perceive the way he works, though you camy never understand him, but he did all thigns for our Good.
ha ha ha
the great call is for you to be good always.
2007-08-21 06:10:44 · answer #7 · answered by Prince343 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His creators weren't very smart. The god they created is tragically flawed because they give it power to both know everything AND do everything. It would have worked a lot better if they just said it created the universe through means not understood, and then watched as it unfolded, doing nothing to alter any of it, and taking no action upon it. But hey, it is much easier to get people to do what you want if you tell them the boogey-god is going to get them if they don't.
2007-08-21 05:41:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Upon His creation he called us good very good
Since the fall of man this has not been so deceived by the father of lies-the Devil
intrinsically man is good and many will be in heaven with him who follow him and not the way of the world
2007-08-21 05:45:52 · answer #9 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FACTS:
1. Bible prophecies are fear-filled fairy tales.
2. The Christian God doesn't exist.
3. I'll probably recieve 7 thumbs down from Christians who've gotten their feelings hurt because of this...
4. Santa Claus IS real, and if you don't believe in him, you're going to burn in eternal damnation.
2007-08-21 05:40:15 · answer #10 · answered by ~*Live, Love and Blessed Be*~ 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋