If you messed up so bad on a job you just hosed it away and started all over except for a chosen few does that make you think of perfection in any way i.e. God?
2007-12-28 14:47:03 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God IS perfect and does NOT "mess up" anything!.... It is mankind that keeps messing up! The key to the example Christ gave is to understand that people can be so concerned about the cares of this life that they ignore their Creator (Matthew 6:33; Luke 21:34-35). It happened before, and it is happening again.
The apostle Paul similarly foretold the overall self-seeking mind-set that would dominate people's thinking in the last days: "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying its power" (2 Timothy 3:1-5).
This perfectly describes the overall attitude and outlook of our age. Such thinking will prevent the vast majority of humanity from believing God and the biblical warning signs indicating Christ's imminent return.
2007-12-28 15:03:46 · answer #1 · answered by TIAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God made all perfect from the beginning. Man messed things up. God hosed away the sinful humans, and kept his perfect plan perfectly on track with the good who were left. Gods' plan is so perfect that no amount of screwing up by humans can ruin it. The sin was forseen, and the flood was part of the plan all along. All of life here, and the destructions/rebuilds/etc are a demostration to prove to the universe that Gods' ways are better than Satans' ways. When people follow Satans' ways, they, and their works, get washed away. Only what is done for/with God lasts. If I messed up on the job, and it got wiped out, and I got fired, and someone else got hired who did the job right, that would make me think the employers' plan was perfect because he continued to get what he wanted even though he had to get another worker to get it. You have fuzzy thinking because you do not focus, and do not know who is the boss, and who is the employer, or even what the plan is.
2007-12-28 15:06:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There is still 'poop' here. And He already said how He will deal with it. Sheesh, we still have the Great Tribulation ahead of us. And the Second coming is going to take about 7 months to clean up. All those dead bodies and bones hanging around. Special crews will go out and have to clean it up, it wiil be so toxic and if you spot some bones while you are traveling, your supposed to place a stake near the area, and the crew will come out to gather the bones. Gruesome!
So the flood was only one way of pressing 'reset' by God. He has many other ways to restart the game. The thing is; He does it in other ways and He told us what they were.
Zechariah 14
12 And the Lord will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. 13 On that day they will be terrified, stricken by the Lord with great panic. They will fight their neighbors hand to hand. 14 Judah, too, will be fighting at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the neighboring nations will be captured—great quantities of gold and silver and fine clothing. 15 This same plague will strike the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in the enemy camps.
2007-12-28 15:16:55 · answer #3 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Since the beginning we've had free will. God never messed up. We did. The logic that God EVER messed up can be disproved with a modern example:
If a child who was raised very well, by very good parents who taught him the basic morale values he needs to be a good person, killed someone is that the parent's fault?
If a different child, raised the exact same way, did not commit the crime, does that mean that it is because of the parents?
No. In both cases the child made his/her own choice. The parents would not be sent to jail because of the actions of their creation, especially if the creation had freewill.
2007-12-28 14:54:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well to be honest yes and no.
The Scriptures say that when God was going to put man on Earth the angels objected. They asked Him "will you put that on Earth that which will cause mischief and bloodshed therein
?" and God said "I know what you do not". God even made the angels bow to man and the one who refused was the outcast Satan who has been man's enemy ever since.
This answers your question because it implies that God knew BEFORE He put man on Earth what type of havoc we would wreak. Perhaps He believes our POTENTIAL is greater than our shortcomings and He was giving us a chance to live up to it.
2. Even as a believer I doubt that the entire planet was flooded even though I do believe in the Scripture. The most likely scenario ? The whole world KNOWN to Noah at that time was flooded. Since people did not travel far from their homes(except nomads and Noah was a farmer)or their places of birth thousands of years ago a LOCAL flood would have SEEMED like the entire planet.
3. Please remember that things that were revealed to or written down by people thousands of years ago were revealed to or written down by folks who would be amazed by flashlights and flushing toilets and had no reason to even consider whether the earth was flat or not. Given this situation it does not seem to even make sense that God would be revealing COSMIC order to them just giving them instructions on how to relate to one another and some basic reasons why. The story of Noah is a part of that instruction although the value of such a story may not be as clear to us today as it was at the time said story came about.
I hope this answers your question.
PEACE
2007-12-28 15:16:03 · answer #5 · answered by Vince Foster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever finished something and seen how all of the work you put into it has had an effect on the outcome, and so you learn from it?
When you see what God has done, when you finally see him in all his glory, and you realize that all of the work that you've put into this life has had the outcome that it will have, for you, at that moment, then you will have your answer to your "if?"
Or you could learn now, and have a positive effect on the outcome of your life and at the great white throne judgment.
2007-12-28 15:02:52 · answer #6 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God didn't mess up ... we did when we gave our authority away to satan. we doubted God and messed it all up for ourselves. that is why He had to send Jesus, to take the authority (not to be confused with power) from satan by defeating him and not giving in to sin. Satan is prince of the earth and still influences humans though. it is a very complex issue and you won't understand unless you ask God and seek Him out. i can't make you understand, only God can do that and all He requires is FAITH. i have been on both sides of this fence and know what it is like to have those questions! oh yeah.
2007-12-28 15:02:44 · answer #7 · answered by Holly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is the mess up his fault? He created a world, and he put man in charge of it.
2007-12-28 14:58:52 · answer #8 · answered by Caveman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't his fault that people got screwed up. He created us sinless and we chose to sin, then we sinned so much he had to stop it all and start practically all over.
2007-12-28 14:57:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody gets a mulligan.
2007-12-28 14:51:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋