Why would God?

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2007-10-29 04:54:37 · 12 answers · asked by Celtickarma 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality

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Why would God put a tree in the garden and tell Adam and Eve not to eat of it, and if He knew they were going to anyway why did He not put the tree somewhere else, or why did He punish them for doing something He already knew they were going to do? Why did He make Eden if He knew He was going to have to throw them out?

Since the beginning God has given men free will. He wanted men to follow Him on their own, He did not create us to be mindless creatures without the will to choose.
Eve was tricked, Adam WILLFULLY disobeyed.
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Why did God not tell Moses how to get to the promise land? It was a 14 mile trip that took 40 years, if God could tell Moses to write the 10 commandments then why could He not give him a map?

First of all God wanted them to depend on Him before they were brought into a land of strange people and strange gods.
When he brought them to the promised land they sent spies to check out the land, all but Caleb and Joshua were too afraid to go into the promised land after they heard the report,even with God. So as punishment God kept them in the wilderness until all who did not trust Him 20 years of age and over were dead ( excluding Caleb and Joshua) then God brought them over into the land He promised them.

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Why did God create Satan and Hell if He knew Satan would show rebellion and try to take over?

See answer to first question...love not blind obedience.

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What point was God trying to make in letting Satan attack Job the way He did if Job was a great man of God?

All I can say is that God was proud of Job. The time we are on earth is but a breath, the little Job suffered is nothing compared to the time in Paradise before him.

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Why did God flood the earth when all He had to do is take out the bad people? Why did He create the bad people to start with?
He did take out the bad people, the flood killed all that did not want God.

He wanted their love and obedience , he let them choose...they did.
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Is it really free will if God knows what we are going to do and then punishes those that uses the so called gift of free will?

It is up for every individual to choose for him or herself, would you want Him to make the decision for you ?
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Why would a loving God put stumbling block in the path of the believer, when the believer is told not to put them in front of a brother?

He would not, In the age of grace which we live, He has left us to ourselves.

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Why did God not stop the 911 terrorist, when the bible says "When the enemy comes in like a flood, I will raise a standard against him?

When He made that statement He was speaking to the Jews, His people, He was actually ruling them Himself at this time. Not everyone today is "Gods People", all are His creation, most have chosen to follow His enemy instead.
911 was not God punishing anyone it was God LETTING man do what seems right in his own eyes.
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If God really wants to be known why is He hiding from the people He created?

He is not hiding, His Word is here for us to learn all we need to know about Him and how to live until he returns.
He is God, He is in control. Not us... We cant even run a country right much less all creation.
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If His mercy endures forever why did He send his son to die a horrible death? I mean He is God is His powers so limited that He can't change His own rules? He must change rules right? If not He made Eden for nothing.

No sin can be allowed before God, there had to be a sinless sacrifice that willingly went to death. Its His creation His rules

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Are we just set up to fail and if so why did He make us this way?

Wouldn't you want your spouse and or your children to love you buy their own choice? Or to be made that way?

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2007-10-29 06:16:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋

It is true that God has the ability to see the future. However, that is a selective ability, meaning he does not always see the future. He has the ability, but not always the desire.

If he knew what was going to happen, that would be unloving on his part, but 1 John 4:8 tells us he's a God of love. Also, that would amount to predestination. The Bible teaches free will and the ability to choose.

Basically, God did not know in advance that Satan would rebel and entice Adam and Eve to sin; although he knew that was a posibilty because they were all free agents.

As for the tree, was it wrong for God to ask them to avoid 1 tree when they had all the others to choose from? Hardly!

2007-10-29 12:02:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋

All of these questions will be answered with cop-out answer by religions people. They will use gods will, free will, the devil, only god knows, it is not for us to question gods will and so forth. Those types of responses are the same ones that were given to me by several of my friends who are religious.
Look at it this way. the entire concept of god is flawed when you look at it carefully.

From your questions we could summaries it this way.

If god is all-powerful and all-loving then why did he allow (____) to happen? Is it because he can not stop it? Then he is not all powerful. If he can but does not want to, then he is not all-loving.

Hope you see where I am getting at.

god makes no sense at all. god is imaginary.

2007-10-29 12:21:38 · answer #3 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋

Bravo! For having the courage to ask these honest questions.
there are no wrong questions, in my opinion.

I have one also, why do christians say that it is Eve's fault that man fell from grace?
Talk about a male-domination oriented attitude!

I seriously believe many different people try to find answers in many forms, and Christianity is simply one way that satisfies their thirst for knowledge.

2007-10-29 12:07:59 · answer #4 · answered by None 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋

You need to consider possibilities outside the bible. As you clearly stated, it doesn't make any sense.

2007-10-29 12:00:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋

There are no real answers.

Religion is a load of made-up rubbish. That's all you can say.

Why would God make people in the first place? Its all nonsense.

2007-10-29 11:58:12 · answer #6 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 4⤊ 6⤋

my suggestion is repent of your sins

get saved and you can ask him.

Or die in your sins and go to hell and burn forever

2007-10-29 12:05:38 · answer #7 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋

ILLUSTRATION: The owner of a radio can listen to the world news. But the fact that he can listen to a certain station does not mean that he does. He must first turn on the radio and then select the station. Likewise, Our Creator has the ability to foreknow events, but the Bible shows that he makes selective and discretionary use of that ability, with due regard for the free will with which he has endowed his human creation. (A simple case in point) Rev. 22:17 "Let anyone hearing say: 'Come!' And let anyone thirsting come; LET ANYONE THAT WISHES take life's water free." (The choice is not foreordained; it is left to the individual.)

Oddly enough, your answer is found in the Book that you have READ not STUDIED. "Come let us reason together" so says the BOOK in Isaiah chap.1 (with many hidden treasures).

Does God's ability to foreknow and foreordain eveything prove that he does or even chooses too? Note that God's ability to discern, the outcome of a certain course or path
taken does not mean that he is responsible for it or that it was what he wanted, but on the basis of what we are doing, he could foresee the OUTCOME. Similarly, on the basis of what is observed, a weather forecaster may predict the weather with a great degree of accuracy, but he does not cause it or necessarily like it.

Here is what God set before Adam and Eve: "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth." "And God also laid this command upon the man: 'From every three of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.' " Genesis 1:28; and chap. 2:16, 17) Would you encourage your children to undertake a project with a marvelous future, knowing from the start that it was doomed to failure? Would you warn them of harm, while knowing that you had planned everything so that they were sure to come to grief? Is it reasonable, then, to attribute such to God?

If God foreordained and foreknew Adam's sin and all that would result from this, it would mean that by creating Adam, God deliberately set in motion all the wickedness committed in human history. He would be the Source of all the wars, the crime, the immorality, the oppression, the lying, the hypocrisy, the disease. But the Bible clearly says "You are not a God taking delight in wickedness." Psalms 5:4 "Anyone loving violence His soul certainly hates." Psalms 11:5 "God...cannot lie." (Titus 1:2) "From oppression and from violence he [the One designated by God as Messianic King] will redeem their soul, and their flood will be precious in his eyes." Psalms 72:14 " God is Love." (1 John chap 4 verse 8 "He is a lover of righteousness and justice." Psalms 33:5. "If you, although being wicked know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more so will your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?"

That 40 year trek in the wilderness was a judgment against Israel, the answer is right there in Numbers chapters 13 and 14 (really read it this time)

As to Satan all of God's works are perfect; he is not the author of unrighteousness; so he did not create anyone wicked. (Deuteronomy chap 32 :4) The one who became Satan was originally a perfect spirit son of God. When saying that the Devel "did not stand fast in the truth," Jesus indicated that at one time that one was "in the truth." John 8:44) But, as is true of all of God's intelligent creatures, this spirit son was endowed with free will. He abused his freedom of choice, allowed feelings of self-importance to develop in his heart, began to crave worship that belonged only to God, and so enticed Adam and Eve to listen to him rather than obey God. Thus by his course of action he made himself Satan, which means "adversary."James 1:14, 15

Let's move on to Job; his integrity to God was challenged by Satan. Then God , with full confidence in his integrity and knowing His own ability to recover and reward Job, permitted Satan to test Job's integrity to the limit, but he did not allow Satan to kill Job. In spite of all the suffering Job endured, he never once charged God with folly or wrongdoing. Neither did he turn away from God. even when pressure was brought upon him by his own wife and by others (Job chap. 1 verses 20 - 22 and chapter 2 verses 9 & 10.) He spoke the truth about God (Job 42:8) He accepted reproof for being too anxious to delcare himself righteous and neglecting to vindicate God. (Job 32:2); and he acknowledged his sins to God Job chapter 42 verses 1 thru 6.

Jehovah loved Job. At the end of Job's faithful course under test, God constituted him a priest for his three companions who had contended with him and God restored Job to his former status. He again had a fine family (evidently by the same wife) and double the wealth he had previously possessed. All his relatives and former associates returned to pay respect to him and to being him gifts. (Job 42:7 - 15 He lived to see his sons and his grandsons to four generations.

Through the prophet Ezekiel, God pointed to Job as an example of righteousness (Ezekiel 14:14 & 20) His patient endurance of suffering is set before Christians as a pattern and his happy outcome is pointed to as magnifying God's affection and mercy. (James 5:11)

REMEMBER THIS when you have unsettling thoughts "For the thoughts of you people are not my thoughts nor are my ways your ways, For as the heavens are higher than the earth so my ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

God can and will undo all the harm that may come upon his loyal worshippers in this system of things.

As for 911, WWI, WWII, Hitler, Pol. Pot, Malawi, Rwanda, Slavery (then & now) Dafar etc., etc., etc., God has made provision to end all suffering. He created the first human pair perfect and he lovingly made every provision so trhat life would be pleasant for them. When they deliverely turned their backs on God, was God obligated to intervene so as to shield their children from the effects of what the parents had done? Deuteronomy 32: 4,5 & Job 14:4 . . As we will know, married couples may have the joys that go with producing children, but they also have responsibilities. The atitudes and actions of parents affect their children. Nevertheless, our Creator as an expression of marvelous underserved kindness, sent his own dearly loved Son to earth to lay down his life as a ransom, to provide relief for those of Adam's offspring who would appreciately exercise faith in his provision. (John 3:16) A result, the opportunity is open to people living today to have what Adam lost --perfect human life, free from suffering, in paradise earth.

The time that has elapsed has been needed to settle the issues that were raised Eden namely the righteousness and rightfullness of God's sovereignty and the integrity of intelligent creatures toward the Creator. But, why so long (from an imperfect human standpoint?) How have we benefited by his allowance of suffering to continue? 2 Peter chapter 3 verse9 answers: "God is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, bujt he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed, but desires all to attain to repentence." If God had immediately executed Adam and Eve, following their sin, none of us would be in existence today. But the fact that God has alllowed this sinful world to exist until now has afforded us the oppportunity to be alive and learn his ways, to make needed changes in our lifes and to avail ourselves of his loving provision for eternal lifeAll this without making hisself a liar and ignoring his pure standards of justice, love, power and wisdom. BUT HE WILL TAKE ACTION SOON TO REALLY SET MATTERS STRAIIGHT - Habakkuk 2:3 & Zephaniah 1:14

2007-10-29 14:28:21 · answer #8 · answered by lover of truth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

maybe other religions gods are more powerfull than yours.

2007-10-29 12:00:36 · answer #9 · answered by wonderingstar 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋

Well, ****, the world is like his reality TV. It's no fun without drama.

2007-10-29 11:57:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 7⤋