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To: kosta50
God planted the tree and the serpent.

God planted the tree and created an angel, Lucifer - ALL GOOD

The angel fell through pride and thus satan/demonic.

If God is God then he did it with the divine foreknowledge of what is about to happen. Man failed, by design..

Man had a choice and failed on his own - go back to where he was given dominion and how he chose to do what 'he' wanted with that authority.

If God wanted a sinless world we would have a sinless world.

The only way that would happen if he made us like robots. LOVE doesn't control.

"For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, The Savior, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life". How can you say God is in control when many many will perish and He wants that no man perish? Again, LOVE doesn't control. The fact that He is ALL KNOWING doesn't stop man from making wrong choices. It happens every day - nothing new under the sun.

Designing a world that would fail, then wanting to destroy it, then changing his mind, then killing himself to fix it just doesn't look like an excellent plan, or that he is in charge.

GOD didn't design the world to fail. Are you still here, is there still air, trees, fowl, etc.? Man brought sin into the world willfully - Adam/Eve handed over their/man's authority of dominion by submitting to evil.

Because of LOVE, Jesus came as 'man' to bring back what 'man' gave away by the authority given to them. It only could be reclaimed by 'man' since it was 'man' that had dominion here. God doesn't go against His Word that He gave dominion to 'man'. Don't assign to God what man does. You can't seem to tell the difference and that comes from NOT KNOWING GOD.

God is Good, God is Love - man is not. Man is sinful and in need of a Savior but many live in 'pride' (Lucifer's downfall) by thinking they have a better way. Their outcome will be the same as his. There is only ONE Way.

What you seem to want is someone controlling you so you don't have to make a choice and still be safe. A controlling spirit is demonic and has it's roots in witchcraft - it's a form of manipulation which satan used from the beginning. Man made teachings/doctrines follow that mindset of control. There is nothing new under the sun.

God offered us salvation - “For by grace you have been saved through FAITH, and that not of yourselves; it is the GIFT of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” One accepts or rejects the GIFT. The choice is theirs. Adam/Eve were given a GIFT, also, and they traded it for deception. Again, there is nothing new under the sun.
3,567 posted on 11/29/2010 12:46:21 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: presently no screen name; boatbums
Are you saying the fall was a surprise to God? Are you saying that God did not want Adam to fall, that His desire was for a sinless world?

One more time..why did jesus come again?

3,569 posted on 11/29/2010 1:19:08 PM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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To: presently no screen name

I saw a lot of that kind of thinking on the creation/evolution threads from the most vehement God and Christ hating atheists. Lots of people think they can do a better job than God did and condemn Him because of that. So they sit in judgment of God and condemn His works and how He does things, as if they’re better , smarter, or more righteous than God is.

The problem is, the only way to deal with their sinfulness is to have it forgiven. The way I see it is that they charge God with evil in the apparent hope that they can somehow hold God hostage to not charginge them with evil while they continue to live in it.

It appears that there is no end of people who would charge God with evil or make Him to be evil.


3,574 posted on 11/29/2010 2:24:32 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: presently no screen name; getoffmylawn; metmom
God planted the tree and created an angel, Lucifer - ALL GOOD

Where does it say that?

The angel fell through pride and thus satan/demonic. 

Where does it say that?

Man had a choice and failed on his own - go back to where he was given dominion and how he chose to do what 'he' wanted with that authority. 

What's dominion got to do with man's fall? Adam failed because he listened to Eve and Eve says she was 'enticed' by the serpent.  Have you ever made a stupid mistake? Do your descendants deserve to suffer for it?

But, the important thing is: God would have known this from all eternity, and he still created a world that was bound to fail, that was sure to fall into sin, just so God can go on a suicidal mission to "fix" his mangum opus, not to talk all misery, and unnecessary suffering!

If I really hate mold, but consciously allow it to fester and spread, and then reach for drastic measure to clean it up, that doesn't sound like a very good plan to me.

The only way that would happen if he made us like robots. LOVE doesn't control. 

And what do you think you are going to be in heaven? Love doesn't have to control you to make you not desire sin. If man's nature were made to detest sin, you wold never sin, naturally. So why not just cut out all the drama, blood and gust and go straight for the finished product?

GOD didn't design the world to fail.

Then why did it fail? Against God's will?  Are you serious? If you are, yours is a strange religion, imo. And if the world did not fail, why was Jesus sent to rescue it? Why is he called the Savior?

 It only could be reclaimed by 'man' since it was 'man' that had dominion here

Is that a fact?  You mean to tell me that God was powerless to fix it otherwise? He absolutely had no other choice? He was obligated? Compelled? Forced? Cornered? Like I said, I don't' believe in your God, for sure, for he seems to be no God, but a victim of man, who waits for a perfect Man to fix things.

God is Good, God is Love - man is not

But nothing could stop God, if he is God, from making man good and making sure he remained good. He didn't.  Your "God," on the other hand, is obviously not capable or willing to do that, but rather keeps fixing everything the tenants break.

What you seem to want is someone controlling you so you don't have to make a choice and still be safe. A controlling spirit is demonic and has it's roots in witchcraft - it's a form of manipulation which satan used from the beginnining.

And what do you call when you say that God gave you faith, or an indwelling Spirit? What does that faith and Spirit do? And what do you say when Paul says you are a slave to Christ? You submission to him is a safe limo ride to heaven.

The choice is theirs. Adam/Eve were given a GIFT

The forbidden fruit? Some gift!

also, and they traded it for deception. Again, there is nothing new under the sun.

Oh so melodramatic, let me get my popcorn out...How do you know you have not been deceived? Even the Bible you worship says Satan can appear as the Angel of Light.

And if the ancestral parents were deceived was that really their fault? Do you think they were that dumb as to realize they were being deceived and said "oh, we are being deceived...but let's do this anyway!" If you have been deceived, you may be dumb, but you are still a victim. And victims hardly deserve what Adam and Eve got.

3,598 posted on 11/29/2010 6:29:07 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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