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Blaming God for Adam & Eve's sin is like blaming Lee Iacocca for every GM car that is stolen.
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Blaming God for Adam & Eve's sin is like blaming Lee Iacocca for every GM car that is stolen.Adam and Eves sin is the cause, not God. Your question is rather, why doesn't God stop the suffering?
Is He now?
Perhaps He operates on another set of standards and a higher knowledge base than you?
Blaming God for Adam & Eve's sin is like blaming Lee Iacocca for every GM car that is stolen.
Is He now?
Perhaps He operates on another set of standards and a higher knowledge base than you?
God created Adam and Eve, and according to you God knew that they would do the very things they did do before God even created them. An omnipotent God, by definition, could have created the world so they would not have sinned and that would have prevented the pain and suffering of billions, according to your beliefs.
Also, when was the last time anyone gave the death penalty to a child because of something their great-grandfather did? How is that anywhere close to being moral?
Of course. If your child were suffering and you could easily stop their suffering, isn't it your moral duty to stop that suffering? Don't we put parents in jail for neglecting their children?
If history is any indication, it will only increase suffering.
God can go back in time. If I need healing for something in my childhood it is no problem for God to go back and heal it. All we have to do is pray and ask. The Bible says we have not because we ask not.He can also speak outside of time.
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
God can go back in time. If I need healing for something in my childhood it is no problem for God to go back and heal it. All we have to do is pray and ask. The Bible says we have not because we ask not.
God COULD have known. He also can choose NOT to know. There are lots of people in the world today. Some choose to sin, some choose not to sin. It is their choice. You can not blame God for the choice you make. He will hold you accountable & responsible.God created Adam and Eve, and according to you God knew that they would do the very things they did do before God even created them.
Noooow you're starting to see the idea behind Jesus' vicarious sacrifice, aren't you?If Iacocca were omnipotent we could blame him for every GM car that was stolen.
I understand.Personally, I consider my morals to be better than those of the bible.
Noooow you're starting to see the idea behind Jesus' vicarious sacrifice, aren't you?
God is omnipotent, and God ...
Isaiah 53:6b ... hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
All we need to do now to get you to fully understand, is to realize who is really to blame for Original Sin.
And that is going to have to be the Holy Ghost's job.
Yup.God can go back in time. If I need healing for something in my childhood it is no problem for God to go back and heal it. All we have to do is pray and ask. The Bible says we have not because we ask not.
God COULD have known. He also can choose NOT to know. There are lots of people in the world today. Some choose to sin, some choose not to sin. It is their choice. You can not blame God for the choice you make. He will hold you accountable & responsible.
You betchum!Blood sacrifice, because that's necessary!
God is good and He only gives us good gifts. We do not always know what is best for us, but God does. I remember once when I was a kid I wanted a bicycle. Even I entered a contest to win that bicycle. I prayed and asked God to allow me to win that contest. I did not get the bicycle. Well actually I did get the bicycle only it was much later in time. At least 10 years later. There was a lesson in all of that for me. We are here to serve God. That is why they call this the Kingdom of God and He is the King. We like to turn that around and make our self to be the King and we expect God to serve us and it simply does not work that way. Even Jesus goes to a great extent teaching us what it means to be a servant. He did this when He washed the disciples feet. Those who are great in the kingdom are least here on earth because they are a servant to all. We are told the last shall be first and the first shall be last. The greatest shall be the least and the least shall be the greatest. That is the way it works with God in the Kingdom of God. If we are humble He will lift us up. If we try to exalt ourselves watch out because we are going to be in trouble. Not to say that we do not try to exalt self. This is just something we struggle with to overcome as Christians.So if you pray to go back in time to fix something in your childhood, does God give you what you want 100% of the time? If so, please give an example of this.
God is good and He only gives us good gifts. We do not always know what is best for us, but God does. I remember once when I was a kid I wanted a bicycle. Even I entered a contest to win that bicycle. I prayed and asked God to allow me to win that contest. I did not get the bicycle. Well actually I did get the bicycle only it was much later in time. At least 10 years later. There was a lesson in all of that for me. We are here to serve God. That is why they call this the Kingdom of God and He is the King. We like to turn that around and make our self to be the King and we expect God to serve us and it simply does not work that way. Even Jesus goes to a great extent teaching us what it means to be a servant. He did this when He washed the disciples feet. Those who are great in the kingdom are least here on earth because they are a servant to all. We are told the last shall be first and the first shall be last. The greatest shall be the least and the least shall be the greatest. That is the way it works with God in the Kingdom of God. If we are humble He will lift us up. If we try to exalt ourselves watch out because we are going to be in trouble. Not to say that we do not try to exalt self. This is just something we struggle with to overcome as Christians.
God is good and He only gives us good gifts. We do not always know what is best for us, but God does. I remember once when I was a kid I wanted a bicycle. Even I entered a contest to win that bicycle. I prayed and asked God to allow me to win that contest. I did not get the bicycle. Well actually I did get the bicycle only it was much later in time. At least 10 years later.
When we are forgiven then He says:“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more".So I guess, that is what God decided with all the bad stuff in the world, he just chose not to know.
I thought he was 'all knowing'?
When we are forgiven then He says:Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more".[FONT=arial, sans-serif].[/FONT]For those who go before God for Judgement we are told that they are judged based on what is written in the books: Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
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