One Thing I Just Don't Get

[Trystan]

God - why bother?

Create the world? What for?

Send people to hell for seaking pleasures on Earth that are OK in Heaven?

Was God bored? Lonely being the only omnipotent power?

I'm not being sarcastic here . . . seriously, why bother?

 

[BigNorsk]

He really didn't tell us why.

Marv

 

[HisArrow]

God probably created the world and the people in it for companionship. He probably wanted people to love him because they choose to and not because they had to or it was force upon them. God gives us all a chance to follow HiIM or not. As followers, we try to follow his teachings which are best for our health and wellfare. like the old testament says noot to eat pork. This is because pork is bad for a person's health. Another is not to have sex outside of marriage. God did not want to take awy the pleasure of sex but to pprotect us from all the diseases that sex bring from having multiple partners or partners of the same sex. Plus protecting us from the heartach involve in having multiuple partners. God knows best. He created us and knows what is best. He created the evil so he woould have people follow HIM because they choose to not because they had to.
MayI ask you, what pleasures are there in heaven that God would send a person to hell for if they do it here on earth as you stated in your post?

 

[salida]

God does things for His pleasure as He doesn't need us for self esteem and/or for anything. Its all for His glory. This may not be a specific answer but its that simple.

 

[x0xJesusIsLovex0x]

I always wonder the same.

 

[HypnoToad]

Send people to hell for seaking pleasures on Earth that are OK in Heaven?

Where do you get that from? What are "pleasures" that are allowed in heaven that are forbidden on earth?

 

[Rafael]

I don't understand why ask such a question if there is even one thing one would enjoy in the life they are given. God is love, and love sacrifices itself in commitment to others. When a person lives only in the ego of their own selfishness, indeed,t hey are filled with their own ways and eventually become bored; but the spice of life and true love can only be known when others can share by giving and enter into the mix of life with us. Ever think that God would like and take pleasure in sharing His awesome love and creative power with others? He did...by making us in His image and giving life with the choice of love which cannot be forced....

 

[hlaltimus]

God - why bother?

Create the world? What for?

Send people to hell for seaking pleasures on Earth that are OK in Heaven?

Was God bored? Lonely being the only omnipotent power?

I'm not being sarcastic here . . . seriously, why bother?

Because God, being infinite in His comprehension, see's things for what they can or will be, while we sometimes quickly become depressed over the way things currently are. Faith is taking His eternal perspective, and it is just bulging with optimism by it's very nature.

 

[ebia]

God - why bother?

Create the world? What for?

Send people to hell for seaking pleasures on Earth that are OK in Heaven?

Was God bored? Lonely being the only omnipotent power?

I'm not being sarcastic here . . . seriously, why bother?

Because it's part of his nature to create. He knows that his creation will be wonderful - even if it does need fixing up. Sure it's a risky business, but we are (apparently) worth the risk.