Why would God make the earth after all? What would have been the case if Adam and Eve never listened to Satan? Wasnt the earth made for a purpose?
2007-10-04 02:36:59 · 12 answers · asked by Artscola 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God made the earth to have a garden. Just as your grandmother will take a spot of land and turn it into a beautiful garden. God made Adam as a caretaker. If Adam and Eve had not sinned, we would never had the first war, everyone would be equal. We all would walk and talk with God face to face everyday. There would have never been sickness, or death. It would have been so wonderful.
2007-10-04 02:45:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally I hope that Heaven - is on Earth someday as we all dream that life here should be.
Perhaps it's because humans do not want to believe that 'this is all there is '
When we loose a loved one , to death and, we never see them again It is soothing to think that we will see our loved ones again "someday"
People just need hope, that is our nature. Hope is what makes us want to continue on .
To me hell would be existing with no hope , having no human contact no connection with G-d and, no hope of ever having any contact.
In all honesty I cannot bring myself to believe that there is a place called hell.
Hell is suffered by each of us--- a little or a lot -here ,during our lifetime.
Some of us experience it more that others -some of us bring it upon ourselves and some or us have it crammed down our throats.
I could not have made it this far in my life without having my Heavenly "Parent" to guide, comfort me and, to talk to .
Scientifically we have to know that the earth may be destroyed and that perhaps human kind will go the way of the dinosaurs. Perhaps Heaven is what G-d has planned for us when that finally happens.
Faith is trusting that our G-d loves us and wants us to enjoy the gift of life .
If we are not able to enjoy ,then we have the opportunity to help someone else enjoy it and HOPE for something better when we are called 'Home' to the loving arms of our Creator..
2007-10-04 10:16:10 · answer #2 · answered by Bemo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a way station or proving ground. In any case, Revelations makes a case for the third way (yay for the Clintons!) as it mentions those left behind at the Rapture, left between heaven and hell. Doesn't sound like much of an option.
Oh, and Jesus mentions the new Jerusalem as the splendid city on the hill. Believe me, if you're there, you won't miss Old Mother Earth.
2007-10-04 09:45:40 · answer #3 · answered by Goethe's Ghostwriter 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God made the Earth so there would be somewhere for man to live, it would also show man His glory. If Adam and Eve never listened to Satan then we would still be in the Garden of Eden, living our perfect lives. Why do we only believe in heaven and hell? Because those are the only two places your soul goes after you die. Either you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and spend eternity with Him in heaven or you choose to reject Him, and separating yourself from Him spending eternity in hell.
2007-10-04 09:44:49 · answer #4 · answered by Why Do You Care 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Heaven is a spiritual realm and has nothing to do with the human experience.
God knew the outcome of mankind before He created Adam. He needed a place for His creation to live.
2007-10-04 09:45:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
according to religions earth was were God created the garden of Eden.
2007-10-04 09:45:55 · answer #6 · answered by Geist König 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course it was.
It was a place to comune one-on-one with God.
But when Adam & Eve sinned, the earth was corrupted.
2007-10-04 09:42:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
God's Word. Read the Bible
2007-10-04 09:43:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
This is a perpetual question for theologians and laity alike. When we look at the world and recognize that a holy and infinitely perfect God has created us, we can appreciate His majesty and wonder. But, it is impossible for us to ignore the fact that this world is far from perfect. There is sin in it. Why, then, if God is infinitely perfect and powerful, did He create a world and allow the fall to occur to contaminate it?
The Bible doesn't give us specific answer to this question, but I would like to offer this possible answer as food for thought.
God did not lack anything in Himself that prompted His creative act. He wasn't lonely or bored. To say such a thing about Him would be to imply He is not eternally self-sufficient and perfect. But, if God is perfect and doesn't need anything, why would He then create us -- and the universe for us to live in -- that has fallen into sin? What purpose would it serve?
I suspect the answer lies within God's nature and a few clues spread throughout God's word. To begin with, God is love (1 John 4:16) and the nature of love is to give. John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son..." I cannot help but believe that the most natural quality of love is to give, to be other centered, and, according to Jesus' own words, to give of one's self to the point of death. John 15:13 is where Jesus said, "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends."
According to Jesus, there is no greater demonstration of love than self sacrifice to the point of death. Since God is love (1 John 4:16) and there is none greater than He, I conclude that God can and will be the one who demonstrates the greatest act of love. I cannot see God allowing a mere creation to demonstrate this in a better way than He. It would be a necessary outcome of His own nature and a necessary manifestation in any universe He created that the two greatest commandments spoken of by Jesus to love God and love your neighbor (xxx) would be supremely demonstrated by none other than God Himself. Jesus was God in flesh who loved the Father perfectly and He loved us completely by laying down His life for us. This is the greatest and most perfect act of love according to Jesus.
If this is true, then it might just be that God had to create the universe so that the fall would be included in His plan for the very purpose of demonstrating and manifesting His perfect character: Love! To demonstrate the very greatest part of His nature of love, He would have to die for someone else. This could not be done if there was no one to die for and no reason to die for them. There could be no reason to die if there were no need for an atonement. There would be no need for an atonement if there were no sin. If there was no fall, there would be no sin.
Therefore, perhaps it is possible that God created the universe with "free will" creatures in it who would fall into sin. Without this fall, ultimately no death would be necessary to atone for them and without that death, the greatest act of love could not be demonstrated. Also, this would mean that the truest and most perfect quality of love would not be fulfilled. Would this then mean that God would not be perfectly fulfilled without having given of Himself? I don't know. But I can't help wondering that for God to truly express His perfectly loving nature, He Himself had to be one who laid His life down for others. For this to happen, He allowed sin to exist in this world.
Furthermore, I suspect that it was Jesus Himself in the garden who walked with Adam and Eve. I base this upon Jesus' own words in John 6:46 where He states that no one has ever seen the Father. Yet, we know that God appeared in the Old Testament (Gen. 17:1; 18:1; Exodus 6:2-3; 24:9-11; Num. 12:6-8; Acts 7:2; etc.). If it was God who was seen and it wasn't the Father, then it must have been Jesus. Why do I bring this up? Because after Adam and Eve sinned, God Himself (Jesus?) shed the blood of an animal in order to cover them with animal skins. This shedding of blood was instituted by God as a prophetic typology of the true and final sacrifice that God (Jesus) would carry out so many thousands of years later when He laid His life down as the perfect demonstration of His loving character. The redemption of mankind was always in the mind of God and was planned and carried out by God as a manifestation of the eternal love He has for His people. This love was made complete in the death of Christ. Also, I suspect that this is what is hinted at in Heb. 13:20 with the reference to the "blood of the eternal covenant" that some theologians think is reference to God's eternal plan of salvation made within the Trinity before the universe was made. This covenant was the inter-Trinitarian arrangement to redeem mankind through the sacrifice of Christ.
Therefore, I conclude that God may very well have made a universe in which sin existed so that He Himself could show the greatest and most perfect act of love by laying down His life for His friends.
2007-10-04 09:47:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
group psychosis
2007-10-04 09:53:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋