Ask a Christian philosopher a question

[Chriliman]

Given what is supposedly at stake in these matters, the way in which you know your beliefs to be true should be of utmost importance! If there really is a Satan who is trying to deceive you as a means of securing your damnation, then it is very important that you know you have acquired beliefs that are genuinely salvific, and not beliefs that you have honestly mistaken as salvific, but which would actually condemn to you Hell.

This is the truest statement I've ever seen from you.

 

[Chriliman]

Given what is supposedly at stake in these matters, the way in which you know your beliefs to be true should be of utmost importance! If there really is a Satan who is trying to deceive you as a means of securing your damnation, then it is very important that you know you have acquired beliefs that are genuinely salvific, and not beliefs that you have honestly mistaken as salvific, but which would actually condemn to you Hell.

I'll add that I believe God is big enough to handle our honest questions and that He is loving enough to guide us to His truth of salvation in Jesus Christ, if we honestly desire it.

 

[bhsmte]

I'll add that I believe God is big enough to handle our honest questions and that He is loving enough to guide us to His truth of salvation in Jesus Christ, if we honestly desire it.

If i have a strong enough psychological desire to believe in Thor as my God, guess what would happen?

 

[HitchSlap]

If i have a strong enough psychological desire to believe in Thor as my God, guess what would happen?

I'm guessing Thor would be big enough, and loves you enough to answer life's biggest questions?

 

[bhsmte]

I'm guessing Thor would be big enough, and loves you enough to answer life's biggest questions?

Yep. That Thor, is a bad dude!

 

[HitchSlap]

Yep. That Thor, is a bad dude!

Biggest hammer on the block!

 

[Ken-1122]

I know many here have asked me questions and for whatever reason I either was unable to respond, chose not to respond, or did not see the question and thus have left the questioner feeling overlooked.

Therefore I propose that in this thread, if anyone wants to ask me a question post it and I will address it. Since there are numerous questioners and I am but one, I ask that you only present one question to me. Not two or three or ten, no statements or claims, but just one question. No memes, gifs, sarcasm or cynicism. No jokes, and nothing that would cause this thread to be closed.

No questions about why I haven't answered this question or that.

So if anyone has a question that fits that criteria the ask and I shall attempt a worthy response. If there passes an interval of time between the last question I answer, then the first person to have asked a question can ask another one and so in turn following that order.

Think carefully about what you will ask and make the question succinct as possible.

Thank you.

Question


According to my understanding, before Adam and Eve sinned, there was no death. Now they obviously had sex organs otherwise they would have had no reason to see themselves naked upon sinning. Had they never sinned, it seems it would be just a matter of time before the world becomes over populated with people and all the animals procreating without anyone or anything dying. What do you suppose God would have done to prevent this from happening?


Ken

 

[anonymous person]

Question


According to my understanding, before Adam and Eve sinned, there was no death. Now they obviously had sex organs otherwise they would have had no reason to see themselves naked upon sinning. Had they never sinned, it seems it would be just a matter of time before the world becomes over populated with people and all the animals procreating without anyone or anything dying. What do you suppose God would have done to prevent this from happening?


Ken

I don't care to speculate on such a thing.

 

[Ken-1122]

I don't care to speculate on such a thing.

Would you agree God put a design and system in place where sin was necessary?

Ken

 

[anonymous person]

Would you agree God put a design and system in place where sin was necessary?

Ken

No I would not.

 

[Ken-1122]

No I would not.

*God designed humans and animals to procreate, without the necessity of eventually dying,
*He put a system in place where sin was possible to be discovered which would result in the possibility of dying.

How come you can’t agree that sin was necessary in order for the requirement of dying to be accomplished?

Ken

 

[bhsmte]

*God designed humans and animals to procreate, without the necessity of eventually dying,
*He put a system in place where sin was possible to be discovered which would result in the possibility of dying.

How come you can’t agree that sin was necessary in order for the requirement of dying to be accomplished?

Ken

Tough questions, don't get answered.

 

[Chriliman]

*God designed humans and animals to procreate, without the necessity of eventually dying,
*He put a system in place where sin was possible to be discovered which would result in the possibility of dying.

How come you can’t agree that sin was necessary in order for the requirement of dying to be accomplished?

Ken

I think these are excellent questions. I've often wondered myself when God determined that we would need genitals. The best answer I can see is that since God created angels and man with free will, He foreknew some angels would rebel and deceive man and cause them to sin as well, therefore in His correct foreknowledge He designed man with the appropriate biology in order to accomplish His will of overcoming the deception that introduced sin and death into God's creation caused by angels who had free will. God's design and plan will overcome and destroy the dark forces in His creation, we just haven't realized the fullness of His perfect plan yet, from our perspective.

A perfectly just God would create perfect beings that have true free will, it's just that in His foreknowledge He knows their choices, but His knowledge of their choices has no effect on their freedom of choice because one can have knowledge of someone else and not effect their free will just because they have knowledge of them.

 

[quatona]

I think these are excellent questions. I've often wondered myself when God determined that we would need genitals. The best answer I can see is that since God created angels and man with free will, He foreknew some angels would rebel and deceive man and cause them to sin as well, therefore in His correct foreknowledge He designed man with the appropriate biology in order to accomplish His will of overcoming the deception that introduced sin and death into God's creation caused by angels who had free will. God's design and plan will overcome and destroy the dark forces in His creation, we just haven't realized the fullness of His perfect plan yet, from our perspective.

That´s got to be the most breathtaking attempt at an explanation that I have heard all my life.
Is there an award for literature of this genre?

 

[anonymous person]

*God designed humans and animals to procreate, without the necessity of eventually dying,
*He put a system in place where sin was possible to be discovered which would result in the possibility of dying.

How come you can’t agree that sin was necessary in order for the requirement of dying to be accomplished?

Ken

Because you did not ask me that. You asked me if I agreed that God put a design and system in place where sin was necessary?

I said no. You mentioned nothing about death in the question I said "no" to.

 

[Ken-1122]

I think these are excellent questions. I've often wondered myself when God determined that we would need genitals. The best answer I can see is that since God created angels and man with free will, He foreknew some angels would rebel and deceive man and cause them to sin as well, therefore in His correct foreknowledge He designed man with the appropriate biology in order to accomplish His will of overcoming the deception that introduced sin and death into God's creation caused by angels who had free will. God's design and plan will overcome and destroy the dark forces in His creation, we just haven't realized the fullness of His perfect plan yet, from our perspective.

A perfectly just God would create perfect beings that have true free will, it's just that in His foreknowledge He knows their choices, but His knowledge of their choices has no effect on their freedom of choice because one can have knowledge of someone else and not effect their free will just because they have knowledge of them.

Thank you for answering my question

Ken

 

[Ken-1122]

Because you did not ask me that. You asked me if I agreed that God put a design and system in place where sin was necessary?

I said no. You mentioned nothing about death in the question I said "no" to.

That's okay; Chriliman answered my question.

Ken

 

[Colter]

Tough questions, don't get answered.

I can answer it, death or translation was already part of life for man, it's normal. This world is not our permanent home. Adam and Eve incarnate on an evolved, populated earth. The loss of immortality status was specific to Adam and Eve who could no longer eat from "the tree of life" due to their sin. They became like one of us and consigned to the Ascension plan that man is. All sons of God high and low have freedom to choose rightly or wrongly.

 

[bhsmte]

I can answer it, death or translation was already part of life for man, it's normal. This world is not our permanent home. Adam and Eve incarnate on an evolved, populated earth. The loss of immortality status was specific to Adam and Eve who could no longer eat from "the tree of life" due to their sin. They became like one of us and consigned to the Ascension plan that man is. All sons of God high and low have freedom to choose rightly or wrongly.

How do you know what our home is after this world?

 

[Colter]

How do you know what our home is after this world?

Its a matter of faith in what we have been told from those who come from the other side. There are no gurantees, even evolutionary life didn't foresee with certainty.

There is an issue that we need to clarify, life was designed with all this uncertainty for a reason, we are supposed to be experiencing the search for values, for material and spiritual truth. We are in spiritual kindergarten on this world. And for what it's worth in my theology life after death adds nothing to us once we awake in the resurrection on the next world aside from the fact of survival. Faith will always be with us as we make our way inward to the spiritual presence of the Universal Father