If God was wrong, that means he worked contrary to his will. According to my thinking, God cannot work against his will. Whatever God does is his will.
I think the problem you are having is how to balance a God who is both Righteous and Loving. To be righteous means to do the right thing all the time, which God does. The fact that man dies and does not go to heaven is righteous, because he (man) was full of sin, therefore unworthy of God. The Loving part comes in when God chooses some to be adopted into his family, therefore being cleansed of sin, and then worthy of the honor of living with God forever in heaven. The fact that God picks and chooses whom he will save is loving, and the fact that God chooses who will die forever is righteous. No one deserves to be in heaven, no one deserves God’s favor.
God cannot be wrong. God was fully justified in destroying the whole population of the world. The fact that he saved eight is a demonstration of his love.
Amen. Love for the eight, and not for the whole world as some would like to think.
God is brand-conscious. His brand. 8~)
With respect, it is not ‘die forever.’ It is ‘roasted in hell forever.’
I don’t get the loving part; if you have 6 children and you condemn (say) 3 of them to burn in hell forever, it doesn’t give the appearance of loving. It gives the appearance of whimsical tyrant.
Yep.
God cannot be wrong.
I would think not.
Yet scripture tells us God thought otherwise: "And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth" [The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth- NIV]
The fact that man dies and does not go to heaven is righteous, because he (man) was full of sin, therefore unworthy of God.
Are you now saying God was wrong when the scripture says: "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good."
God cannot be wrong.
We still agree. However if we base our conclusions about God and man on from an attempt to mesh together all of scripture, without seeing it as a unity, we end up with a view of God, who IS Good and Just and IS love, creating men who are not "very good"; and even with God the Father as not the God the Father to all his children. Some of whom He creates fatally flawed, incapable of use for anything but eternal garbage.
If we arrive at this point, we should consider that somewhere, we made a wrong turn and need to look at our source data perhaps in a different way.
thanks for your reply very much, as always, I appreciate your discussion.
Yet the Book of Genesis 6:6 tells us that God "grieved" (NIV) or "was sorry" (NAB) or "repented" (KJV) for having made man.
That doesn't square with your statement. But I fully agree with it! It's the Book of Genesis that is error when it portrays God as regretting His own action.