When I read Old Testament, I feel God is the root cause of all sins....He couldn't overpower Satan who was/is suceeding in all what he wanted against God's purpose creating Man and Woman. You all know about Adam/Eve story.
God made Abram to sleep with his wife Sarai's maid Hager who gave birth a son. Lord named her son Ishmael and said "he will be donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him,....Genesis 16:12. Yes thats how Muslims came to world and become terrorist. I can quote a lot like this...like route cause of Idol worship etc.
He allowed lot of people to break The Ten Commandments which cleary shows that Satan had more power than God.
Jesus Christ supposed to be His only begotten Son tried His best to preach the people, but He was crucified which God couldn't stop. After Christ's crucification more sinners, terrorists and Idol worshippers have grown..
What do you say about this?
2007-09-20 22:46:11 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let me ask you three questions.
1. Did God know anything before He created the earth? I think your answer to this would be Yes. Mine too.
2. What was it that God knew before He created the earth? It is true that Revelation 13:8 in the Greek can be read as referring to ‘the book written before the foundation of the world’, rather than as referring to the Lamb. However, this reading still means that God knew whose names would be in His book (or possibly whose names would not be in His book, which by difference amounts to the same result). That is, that God knew before the foundation of the world who would be saved.
3. If God knew who was going to be saved and wrote their names in a book before the creation of the earth, did He know how they were going to be saved? Or did He just hope that something would turn up? I suggest that if God did not know how people were going to be saved, He did not know very much at all, which, of course, would be contrary to the doctrine of God’s omniscience.
If Christ’s death and resurrection were a part of The Plan—laid down ‘before the creation of the world’—then Adam’s sin must have been a part of The Plan as well. Let me put it another way. Christ’s death and resurrection accomplished the reconciliation of Mankind with God—a reconciliation made necessary because of Adam and Eve’s sin in the garden. Therefore, if the cross had been planned by God since before the creation, then the Fall must have been pre-ordained too. Which opens a whole new tin of worms.
The short answer to these points is that because God is omniscient He knew that Adam would sin, but such fore-knowing should not be translated as being causative.
One illustration to explain this is as follows (remembering that all illustrations about God must fall short—a symptom of the finite trying to explain the infinite).
A car right before a bend on a high-up road
Imagine a man in a car driving along a narrow country road. He passes a cow and is approaching a bend. On the other side of the bend is a large semi-trailer travelling at high speed on the wrong side of the road. A crash is inevitable. To the driver, approaching the bend, the cow is now in the past, he is experiencing the present, and his hitting the semi-trailer is in the future. Now imagine a pilot in a helicopter above the scene. The pilot can see the cow, the car, and the semi-trailer all at once, so in a sense, what is past, present and future to the driver is all one to the pilot. Furthermore the pilot can see that a crash is inevitable, even though the driver does not know it is going to happen. Does the pilot cause the crash just because he knows it is going to happen? Assuredly not!
Our problem in understanding these matters of God’s eternal perspective is encapsulated in Ecclessiastes 3:11:
‘He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot fathom what God has done from the beginning to the end.’
You may ask "If God knew from before creation that Mankind would rebel then why did he go through with the creation?"
The short answer is that God created all things for His own glory. First and primarily to display His glory, e.g. ‘The heavens are telling the glory of God’ (Psalm 19:1). And secondly in order for Him to receive glory, e.g. ‘Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness’ (Psalm 29:2).
As well as the above, there are a number of Bible verses that hint at the reason why God created people. Unlike the animals and plants we are created ‘in the image of God.’
2007-09-20 23:44:21 · answer #1 · answered by Glory to God 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Considering He ordained His Son Jesus Christ to be the Redeemer of the world before it was created, the answer is an obvious yes.
He allows Satan to attempt us because freedom to choose is important in our development. Without it we could not become more Godlike.
Christ was supposed to be crucified. He volunteered for it. He did so to pay for the sins of man. It could have been stopped in a heart beat. But the Atonement was made and we are free.
2007-09-20 23:11:45 · answer #2 · answered by Avatar_defender_of_the_light 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD created free will. HE only knew because HE is everywhere, past, present, and future. That they sinned against GOD shows how merciful HE is by not destroying them outright and giving them another chance at life. HE is a loving BEING and very tolerant. Extremely tolerant. Anything that is bad on this earth was introduced by the devil. his name and GOD'S NAME should not even appear on the same page. GOD is all powerful and can destroy anything or anyone at will. Yet HE doesn't because he is a loving FATHER and CREATOR. For HIM to interfere would mean HE is taking away the free will HE created. HE only gets involved when the earth is in danger of destruction. And by the way I am not a bible thumper. Far from it actually, and yet I know HE loves me. The bible says there is one way to tell the anti-christ from the real SAVIOUR: Ask him to say that only GOD belongs in heaven. anti-christ will not say that, and you will know who you are dealing with!!
2007-09-20 23:09:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Allah did know that Adam would sin before He created him, but since Allah gave free will to humans, he wanted to see what Adam and his wife would do.
News flash! Since humans came to existence, Christianity and Judaism weren't known religions, and believe it or not, but Islam was the first religion to ever exist.
At the time of Prophet Muhammad it was just firmly established, but not formed. If you really believe that Muslims are terrorists, then I ask Allah to guide you.
Also the Bible isn't a divine book, because it was tampered with by humans throughout the ages, so what you read was actually part of what was tampered with.
Now not all of the Bible is tampered with, but a lot of it is.
2007-09-21 01:14:37 · answer #4 · answered by Green Phantom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds to me that you are an atheist.You seem to be anti Religion.God is beyond what you associate with him he is perfect and all powerful ,he is above being questioned about any of his wisdom and his creation.God chose to give people a free will to make their own choices.The important thing is to know that God knows what we will chose before we actually chose it.His wisdom is so great that he knows the future.And by the way Sarah gave Abraham Hager as a gift and he married her and produced the great Prophet Ismael.My advice to you is to seek Gods forgiveness and to stop insulting him and his prophets.
2007-09-20 23:09:28 · answer #5 · answered by Conservative 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, you go from right to some ridiculous assumptions.
Yes God knew it is the reason there are two trees in the midst of the garden.
It is the reason the Bible says the lamb was slain before the foundation of the world.
2007-09-20 22:52:18 · answer #6 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a big problem with the old testament in terms of coherence. that is because there are actually two stories intertwined in genesis. it is really confusing if you are not looking for it.
another problem includes the evolution of satan as "the opposition" to "the deceiver." it is very obvious that jews changed the story as time went on, and retconned satan as a bad guy.
they are worse than marvel comics when it comes to consistency between issues.
2007-09-20 22:51:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he did.
Its human nature to sin, however it was the act of repentance that Allah wanted Adam to learn because it is one of the best acts of worship.
Also, Allah wanted Adam to learn that the Devil was an enemy.
Allah Knows Everything. He even knows how you have quoted an in accurante book and labelled people with true knowledge.
Hopefully, He will guide you,
2007-09-20 22:56:37 · answer #8 · answered by Imran Ayub 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am proud of you for reading the bible. It is very interesting.
I really recommend that you also read some studies on what it means. A good bible teacher makes it so much easier to get it right and I'm sorry to tell you your understanding is not good yet.
This link is a great place to study. Try it
out. You can get better answers to your questions here.
http://www.gracethrufaith.com/
2007-09-20 22:53:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. God created Adam in His Image.
2007-09-20 22:59:17 · answer #10 · answered by becomeblackbelt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋