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Genesis 2 9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. |
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me in Springfield, IL '07
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God changed his mind... It shows no prefect!!! At first he thought old testament is better then later he realized that he need to change and improve new testament. Like what we all did the same... We all including God are imperfect...... |
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I do not think God is imprefect.
I'm a bit surprise that thread, here, is quite similar to my old website, Creationism Club. -Some of them were claimed God is not prefect. -Some of them were claimed God tested His children. -Some of them were claimed that God changed his mind. -Some of them were claimed that God made a mistake. - Other reasons. All of above is not true. God already did set His plans for all future timeline before He created "His" world and the Seventh Day. He knew His own good and logical reasons, He did not make a mistake. He knew what He is doing for His best job and His new world will be much better than our world. That point is our world is NOT His own earth because it's sinful world we lived in. Sure, a life is a such fucked up yet still wonderful. In fact, that's life. ![]() Just thought for a moment. ^_^
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me in Springfield, IL '07
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*God supposed to be omniscient. It's him who knows all from the beginning to end and also knows the future and the past as well is part of his plan. He already knew that the way of his plan would turn out like this? He should destory Adam & Eve and try again when he want the earth to be prefect? ![]() It could be that God want something excitment in the earth instead of prefect all the time? ![]() |
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How could Eve & Adam know over Satan's existence? God never warn them about Satan's existence? They weren't realized that they were tricked? God kicked them out of paradise for being tricked? If God placed a forbidden fruit tree in the middle of the place where Adam & Eve lived and said to not touch it. As you said that God test their faith sound to me that he created temptation? When the parents said to a toddler or small children: "you can't have that". What should you answer when they ask "why"? They would experiement their curiously anyway because they do not know how bad it is. That's exact how the child is tempted... That's God created temptation. Yes Eve and Adam made an innocent mistakes for thought it's okay to eat fruit from forbidden tree because Satan told them that God don't mind. Just one mistake... they can learn to correct their mistakes next time instead of get harsh punishment from God. |
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I would remove bad one in my yard to protect my children from their temptation. We removed eldberries tree from my yard to protect our children when my children were babies/toddlers...and 6 years later then re-plant eldberries tree in my yard. Its about ensure to prevent from happens. I would never, never, never test my toddlers's tempation but concern their safety. |
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Yes we have free will to say no or yes because we receive fully information to know what kind of drugs by the parents and school. |
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How Can A Good God Permit Evil in the World?
Delve Into Jesus : Articles : How Can A Good God Permit Evil in the World?
Why is there evil in the world? The source of evil in the world is you and I - all of mankind. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves and we hurt God. We sin. Each and every one of us has done this at least a few times in our lives. We have known what was right and what was wrong and we consciously, deliberately chose to do wrong. For some, the evil is nothing more than a lie or some hurtful words. For some, it is murder and savagery. Regardless of the severity, the nature of the sin is the same. At that moment, we rebelled against God and said to Him, "What I want right now is more important than you. I know this hurts you and I know it's wrong but I don't care, I'm doing it anyway." Why did God allow us to get into this mess? God made us this way because He loves us. He did not make us to be puppets or robots because true love can never be forced or demanded. It can never come from someone who is unable to make any other choice. Only when someone makes a decision from their own will and desire can it be said to be complete and true love. Thus, God will not control us, compel us or force us to do anything. We are completely free. Sometimes we do good, and sometime we do evil. God does not interfere. Why does God have to allow the effects of evil? Why not permit the choice, but not allow the awful consequences? Imagine this idea in your own home, if you have any young children. Every time your child does something wrong, let's pretend you will simply clean up the mess and say nothing. There will be no punishment and no cleaning of their own mess. If they destroy something, you must replace it without saying another word. You will still have to try to do your best to teach them right and wrong, but there will never be a consequence for bad behavior. In this scenario, it's easy to see that your child will learn to do what feels best for them, for they cannot possibly have a sense of other people's needs and feelings. Without consequence and punishment, they will become ultimately selfish because it is impossible for them to know what it feels like to hurt another person. It's only by suffering the consequences of our actions that we can learn and become better people. Removing the consequence removes the moral element and it removes any opportunity we have to grow. Why permit all the effects of sin? Why not remove some of it? He does! In fact, if one were to ask, "What has God done about the problem of sin?" the answer is, of course, "He sent His Son to die." However, this is what He has done in order to solve the problem ultimately and forever. In order to minimize the effect and consequence of sin daily, God has provided us with cultural, political and societal institutions such as government, economic order, family and education. All of these were put in place by God to minimize both the desire to sin and the effect of sin. These institutions protect and shield us, and without them we would descend into anarchy and chaos. (Witness the moral and ethical decline in the last 40 years as society has dismantled the traditional family unit which God provided.) What about Disease and Natural Disasters? Of course, this is not the entire picture. Free will and consequence cannot explain a three-year-old getting cancer or a nation wiped out in a earthquake. How can a loving God permit these things? No one sinned and no one made a choice. These things just happened! First, we need to realize that as a result of our sin, the world is not what God intended it to be. When Man first began to rebel, everything changed and the earth which was once a blissful paradise became tough, unpredictable and wild. The fact that we, as a people, have lost our paradise is a consequence we all share for our combined sin. You can never point to a single event or sin which causes a child to fall ill, but you can say that we are all a sinful people and as a result, the world is a difficult place in which to live for each and every one of us, for none of us are without blame. Yet still, there is another explanation. Is is true that sometimes God will permit evil or pain to happen for greater good. This is a very difficult thing, because we may never know in this life what the greater purpose was. It might be a great relief to know that by dying, your child will affect a hundred lives in a positive way, but sadly, we rarely have the opportunity to know. And so, it becomes an issue of trust and faith. If something bad happens to me, especially if I have prayed to God to take it away and He has not, I must have faith that God is in charge. I know that He is good and powerful and there is a reason that this is happening. I trust Him even when it makes no sense because He is good. That is easy to say and very hard to do! It can be the hardest thing in the world to stand by and watch someone suffer while all the time knowing that God could take it all away if He wanted. We pray and pray, and we start to worry that maybe God is not so good after all because a "good" God would take this pain away. But if He took it away, what greater good would be lost? If God is everything we know Him to be, then we have to have faith no matter how hard it may be, that He loves us and has our best interest in mind. He loves us too much to let us be the child whose parent cleans up after their every mess. He wants us to become something better.
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