This is the main reason people are undecided about any monotheistic religion. If God loves us, knows what we need in order to believe in Him, and has the ability to provide that, why doesn't He? If He has power over Satan, why does he allow Satan to sway us?
2007-09-16 16:36:34 · 8 answers · asked by G J 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's the million dollar question. If god was all-knowing, then he would have known that Lucifer was going to rebel, and that Adam and Eve were going to submit to temptation. So if he knew these things, and he was all-powerful, than he could have made adjustments to change the course of events.
The fact that he did not proves that he can not be both; or if he is both, he can't possibly be kind and benevolent. After all, who creates a world and people if you knew from the very beginning of time that they would fall from your grace and suffer? Why plan it that way? It makes no sense.
2007-09-16 16:55:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If we knew that we would know everything - there are many things we do not know and cannot see or understand.
I believe free will plays into it a great deal - God will not makes us love or follow him like robots - so in his wisdom he gives us choice in our thoughts and actions.
We therefore have limited knowledge because of our choice to sin, and rebel against God. We are his creation and would not be like him ( all knowing) anyway - but we are lesser and cannot know all things as he does.
Your question was very well worded.
In his perfection, things are as they are. We have chosen to sin and have to trust his will, and final outcome, will be just and fair. He is not the author of evil, never.
We want instant answers but that is not how God works. Because of free will, he allows us to choose Satan or life in him. At the same time, he loves us more than we can imagine, and has a way to life through Jesus Christ.
2007-09-16 16:48:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. First, Christian theism acknowledges that God created the POTENTIAL for evil because God created humans with freedom of choice. We choose to love or hate, to do good or evil. The record of history bears eloquent testimony to the fact that humans of their own free will have actualized the reality of evil through such choices.
Furthermore, without choice, Love is meaningless. God is neither a cosmic rapist who forces his love on people, nor a cosmic puppeteer who forces people to love him. Instead. God, the personification of love, grants us the freedom of choice. Without such freedom, we would be little more than preprogrammed robots.
Finally, the fact that God created the potential for evil granting us freedom of choice ultimately will lead to to the best of all possible worlds--a world in which "there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain (Revelation 21:4). Those who choose Christ will be redeemed from evil by his goodness and will forever be able NOT to sin.
In His Service,
John the Baptist
2007-09-16 18:01:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God desires that we would want a relationship with Him. Without an ability to make a choice between Him or someone else (Satan/ourselves/etc.) then we would merely acquiesce to Him like robots. This would not be a true choice, nor would it be love.
We must each choose whom we will follow. But the choice is ours to make.
2007-09-16 16:49:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"ought to or no longer this is that the main fastidiously logical atheists will attain throwing out the worship of the Christian Trinity & Allah & the God of the Jews -- yet meanwhile help to restoration the worship of the previous Druid or Aztec pantheon, comprehensive with bloodthirsty deities who call for human sacrifice?" so which you purely threw that bit in on the tip? Agnostic my ***, you're a Christian, admit it. What you have provided right it quite is a "straw guy" argument, you have misrepresented atheists by using offering that they are taking action against non secular ideals, and then pronounced that they might like religions consistent with human sacrifice. incorrect! at the start, atheists are not approximately to bypass "throwing out" any religions, they do exactly no longer carry those ideals and might choose to no longer be afflicted by using individuals who do. the splendid label to apply to your fact could be anti-theists (intense ones at that!). Anti-theists are against the worship of all imaginary deities and supernatural tactics, this exceedingly includes barbaric human sacrifices. we would be "throwing out" that crap too!
2016-10-09 07:59:25 · answer #5 · answered by uhlman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Great Being we call God split its self in to many souls. We are IT, He is Us . We are God incarnate. The challenge we gave our self is- at birth to forget that, and see what we are capable of while we are in this home away from home we call Earth. Don't' believe it? Look me up when you leave Earth and you get Home. It will be funny, how unevolved we are spiritually not to know that we are the Great Spirit.
2007-09-16 17:08:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We have to make the choice our selves. He wants us to have faith when it is not obivious that he is there, and he cannot mess with our free will. He wants us to come to him because we need him, He is hurt when we let Satan trick us but he cannot stop us. he can only gentle point us in the right direction whenever we stop to listen.
2007-09-16 16:53:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Freewill:
Atheists can decide to reject Jesus (mock and blaspheme) because God wants all people to choose Him (not be robots).
2007-09-16 16:58:25 · answer #8 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋