According to Christian theology, did God choose to create us, and so can He also destroy us?

Question

key word is choose-did He have too, and can He still destroy us if we are in covenant with Him?

Answer 1

No. He created us to love and love Him in return.
But if that is what you believe (that His intention is to destroy you) you are probably headed for destruction.

Answer 2

Yes. God did choose to create us. Could He destroy us? Of course it is within His power to do so. However, the Bible is very clear about the fact that God loves us. Moreoever, there are promises made to those who have entered into covenant with Him. He has promised eternal life. And He "is not a man the He should lie." He is absolute Truth and His nature is the absolute absence of sin. He is holy. He will not break a promise--or covenant.

Answer 3

You have to remember this. God is a powerful almighty spirit. He created us because of his great loneliness in the void of the Universe. He realized his loneliness so therefore decided to create man in the image , of course in the way that his personality is. Not by what he looks like. I don't even think the word personality is the correct word to use. All the emotions he feels would be better. Love, kindness, anger, happiness, and sadness. That's his make up, but the difference is that he's the creator. When you're a creator you have a love for that creation and you never want to destroy it. When you create something sometimes in the creation error occurs that you didn't expect to happen. We were perfect in his image, but given the will to choose your on destiny was not a flaw, but a test of how much love his creations would have for him. Man wasn't a mistake he was a solid form with God's qualities. He created us to serve his loneliness needs and he wanted us to serve him in that fashion. The decisions that man made is eventual demise of man. God didn't want to interfere with the free will after Adam and eve were exiled from the garden of eden. So now we kill ourselves and others. We contract diseases of the earth and we die. We are taken , because of physical and biological makeup. Not be the will of God. When we do die God is there to accept all those who have been faithful to him. So don't blame God for taking us to our death. Now one thing you can do. When we pray for things through Jesus his son then all things are possible. Faith and prayer will heal people. It has to be strong faith in God. A very strong one. You must mean it, too.

Answer 4

I believe God had different reason for creating us. One is for companionship. Another is to bring about the demise of the devil.

When God created the earth, even before he created the heaven and earth, he begat his Son, the Word, our salvation. God knew that the devil would cause the fall of men. And he knew the devil could move men to put his Son to death.

And by doing so, the devil brought about his expulsion from heaven, Rev. 12. By doing what he did, he brought judgment upon his head.

As for destroying mankind, God gave all men the freedom to choose destruction or eternal life in paradise. Man can be the children of God or the children of the devil. If the man chooses to believe the lies of the devil, he is choosing his own destruction.

Answer 5

Yes and yes. although If you believe in God, that Jesus Christ died for our sins, and that Jesus Christ is your personal Lord and Savior, your spirit will not die when Jesus returns instead It will go to heaven, receive a perfect body and live in Gods presence for eternity.In short you can live through the second part of the question If you truly believe. God is giving everybody in the world a chance to believe in him, what you choose to do with that chance is up to you. God can do whatever he wants to do, so yes he could destroy us all but he will save the ones that believe and want to be saved.

Answer 6

God is our Father. We as imperfect beings do not want to destroy our own children, it goes against our very nature. God, being our perfect Father, could do no such thing to his children. While death will come upon all, he provided a way for all to be resurrected as well. His purpose and goal is to have his children return to live with him. The spirit which gives the body life(yours, mine, jesus, etc) cannot be destroyed. Eventually that same spirit will return to the body it left, although in perfected form.

Even the most vilest sinner of all, the devil is not destroyed, he will, however, be punished. One of his punishments, of course, is that he never will get a body, thus will never be a father, son, brother, etc.

Answer 7

Of course, any inventor or creator has the power over his creation. romans 9:20-23. Do you agree? But God is gracious and merciful. Amen. Psalms 106:1; psalms 107:1; Psalams 117:2.

Answer 8

Yes on both counts.

It is also important to note that in Christian theology God has already wiped man out once. In the story of Noah God became so disenchanted with what man had become he made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights to and left Noah and his family (along with two of each of the lesser beasts) to repopulate the earth.

Answer 9

Sorry, Joshua, but that invisible old fella in the sky did not create anything, not one little bitty thing, and he isn't going to destroy so much as a fly. He's a myth, a fairytale, a big, fat lie.

Answer 10

My understanding is that he chose to create us out of boredom. It wasn't lonliness, for he had a hundred billion angels in heaven. But they were not interesting.

He created humans, and it was only later he thought about destroying them.

Then he changed his mind when he met Noah in a bar one fine evening, and they became fast friends and the rest is history -- or something like it.

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Answer 11

God does not violate His own commandments, and Exodus 20:15 means literally, Thou shalt not murder.

When someone commits a crime worthy of death (homosexuality is one example--Leviticus 20:13) they have foresaken their rights to His perfect kingdom, so by sinning, they have "destroyed themselves."

Because humanity falls short of the righteousness of God, and are condemned, God, in the person of Jesus, takes your confessed and foresaken sins upon Himself and died your penalty. That is Love, while we were yet sinners, Jesus died for us--yes, our sins murded our Creator.

There is a Bible code, the only part of the Bible that says you can't understand it until the end of the days. It proves Jesus is the Messiah that abolished the sacrificial system through His death.

But only the "Wise can understand it."

Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua