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.
***Are you now saying God was wrong when the scripture says: “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.”***
God did create all things good, as in “according to his purpose” but he also put a little tree in the garden and told Adam not to eat of it. That’s where things went downhill :>) The tree was still good, just not good for Adam to eat. The action, the sin, was in disobeying God’s direct command to Adam. Even though Eve was the one decieved by the serpent, Adam’s sin was not obeying God.
Seeing that God didn’t HAVE to put that tree there, why do you think he did? I think that he did because all of this was according to his purpose. He knew that Adam would disobey, he knew that man would fall. It was all according to his purpose, his will. Before the creation of the earth, God had a plan that his Son would save the elect. Before any sin happened, he had a plan.
***Some of whom He creates fatally flawed, incapable of use for anything but eternal garbage.***
Actually, all of us are fatally flawed, until Jesus sets us free. All of us are dead in our sins, none of us are worthy of God, and none of us can be worthy of God without the Holy Spirit, given to us by Jesus.