Why did God create people He knew would be lost?
I know the answer but I don't know how to word it or remember any scripture on the top of my head. It is for my friends, please give webpages.
2007-09-10 11:22:38 · 13 answers · asked by Luke†Gospeltothepoor 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You might notice that essentially all of the answers above this one (a few exceptions) are witless rationalizations and regurgitation of slogans and religious bon mots. You will not find ANY that represents an original thought on the part of the responder. All those responses are canned... and mimicked. It is just lile pulling the string on a talking doll.
You should take that as a clue.
"Well... if it made any sense, you wouldn't have to accept it on 'faith', would you now?" ~ from Nuns On The Run
Gods were invented by man, in a desperate attempt to explain what was once unexplainable... things like the sun, moon, and stars... day and night... thunder and lightening... sickness and death... etc... and to answer questions that were once unanswerable... vital, profound, important questions like "Daddy... what holds the sky up?" The answer for ALL of these things was some form of "God did it."
For all of these questions, the delusion "God did it" (the ILLUSION of knowledge) has been replaced by REAL knowledge... and as a result, this 'god' has been reduced from an all-powerful supernatural being to a 'God of the Gaps'... an imaginary cockroach-like creature that scurries from crack-to-crevice, looking for the remaining patches of darkness and shadow in mankind's '"knowledge-base", so as to cower and hide from the glaring light of knowledge and understanding.
The fact that people continue to cling to this pitiable, delusional 'god' idea is a pathetic disgrace, to say the least... and I am inclined to add 'tragic' to that, as well... a testament to the enduring power of gullibility, irrationality, willful ignorance, self-delusion, intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy and drooling stupidity.
Yet today, we find stalwart defenders of these insane delusions fighting a desperate battle to stave off knowledge and understanding, trying to shield the dark cracks and crevices of ignorance from the light of reason... crying "No... no... that ain't so... God did it... God did it."
Think about this... seriously... THINK... you believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced, by a talking snake with legs, to eat from a magical tree... (etc.)... and that there is something horribly wrong with people who ARE NOT so gullible and droolingly stupid as to believe such outrageously ridiculous codswallop.
You know what? SANE people don't believe such nonsense. There is a whole INDUSTRY (Christianity) whose BUSINESS it is to create whole generations of adults who are, at once, gullibile, irrational, willfully ignorant, self-deluded, intellectually dishonest, droolingly stupid and hypocritical... and willing to tithe 10% for having their cognitive dissonance held in check through regular doses of holy bullshit.
Religious 'shepherds' KNOW that their 'flock' (sheeple) are scientifically ignorant and incapable of critical thinking. They KNOW that they find 'scientific' sources' to be intimidating and incomprehensible. These puppet-masters KNOW that their flock (victims) will seek their 'knowledge' from 'trusted' sources... the very-same puppet-masters. When the sheeple hear things like 'scientists claim that humans and apes shared a common ancestor, in the distant past', they experience 'cognitive dissonance'... this information is in conflict with the 'truth' that they have believed for their whole lives. So... where do they go to resolve this cognitive dissonance?... Scientists?... NO! They go to their 'trusted' sources... the sources who KNOW that they have been taught WHAT to think... they have not been taught HOW to think. Sources who KNOW that they can lie, obfuscate, misrepresent with impunity... with absolutely NO RISK that their minions will seek out independent, peer-reviewed corroborating information.
They do their jobs very well indeed.
2007-09-10 11:37:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps what you mean is why would a loving God create free will knowing it would result in the unending torment of hell for many?
Ask yourself what good earthly parent on this planet would do that and, of course, you get the answer that absolutely no one would.
So, (1) God is loving and not all powerful (didn't create free will or hell), (2) He is all powerful and not loving, or (3) He is all powerful and loving and hell doesn't exist.
2007-09-10 11:43:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
truthfully!!! It grow to be some thing greater formal, yet I used to talk to Him in spite of the reason and because I saved forward to my very own ambition and desires, whilst He gave me avertisements I saved none and did my way going into further and extra trubles! Into an end, interior of a deep depresion, He saved my life (!!!) the very 2d I left away of all my deep desires... There, empty heart, i grow to be crammed with God's easy and Peace and Love - an entire New life, a sparkling physique, a sparkling imaginitive and prescient over the final and the destiny :) :) :) sure, he's my Saviour!!!
2016-11-14 21:25:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created people so He could have a family, and since love only manifests in beings with free will, He gave us the choice to choose Him and spend eternity with Him.
2007-09-10 11:46:06 · answer #4 · answered by Nels 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To be an example for those who chose not to be lost.
God doesnt create robots. People chose a certain lifestyle over another.
And those who chose a lifestyle that hurts them and their surroundings, are a lesson for those who do not want to.
2007-09-10 11:45:26 · answer #5 · answered by Antares 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There was a war and rebellion in heaven..Michael and his angels fought against the devil and his angels, and cast them out. This will happen again in the near term. This is why there is evil in the world.
2007-09-10 11:26:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
This is a good one. My made-up answer would be "so that the saved would understand the value of being saved." If everybody was saved, that wouldn't be much fun, would it?
2007-09-10 11:27:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If God is perfect and creation also, can you see where the judgment of the "lost" is coming from?
2007-09-10 11:27:06 · answer #8 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
he didn't. false assumption.
satan "thou was created perfect in thy ways UNTIL Inquity was found in thee"
freewill is just that. freewill. do parents raise their children knowing they're going to be rapists, drug addicts or serial murderers? nope. same with God. create children and hope for the best. some are just evil @*(#@. plain and simple as that.
2007-09-10 11:25:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
For practice.
2007-09-10 11:28:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋