If he is such a great and wise and all powerful god, why would he want to punish mankind just because one person ate a friggin' fruit??? Is that a valid reason to make us all live on earth? If god wanted to, couldn't he just absorb us all into heaven so every person that ever was, is, and ever will be, be truly happy for the rest of eternity?
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free will20% Voted for by madhatter8989, OrangeMoon.
god created man... i'm not sure why. he also gave man free will. with free will he gave man the option to listen to him or the option to ignore him. he created adam and eve with their free will and when they chose to ignore him and eat the forbidden fruit he realized that if he was to give them free will then a garden of eden would warp that free will and make a woefully weak, slothful, lazy race of humans. with free will humans need adversity and strife so that they are conditioned to handle free will and still be virtuous.
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ParentingVoted for by Null.
If your child asked you to buy a skateboard, could you deny him this wish? and if you saw him skating and he fell would you run up to him and give him aid or let him take the fall and learn not to use it too carelessly. Because responsibility for your actions walks hand in hand with knowledge of them. If there is a god and he created us, why would he chose to constantly interfere rather than to let us learn from our own misstakes as any child will do?
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not blah blah blahVoted for by KimmyKat.
God doesn't do everything we think he does. He lets things happen for us, not to us. This is a really broad question, so let me narrow it a bit. If something terribly bad happens to you and you blame God, is that fair? He is 100% peace, love, truth, hope, patience, grace, glory, honor, and perfection. The chances of him sending something bad to happen to you are next to nothing. He lets things happen to test our faith. He knows what we can handle and He promises that He will never give us more than we can handle. Do we sometimes think there is no way out? Yes, but that's our rationality, not His. With Him, all things are bearable. But not everyone has Him. So they think they are- or are- suffering more. It's all on how you take it and what you do with it.
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GodVoted for by musicalfreak90.
He made us so that he could see what life in his own creation would be like. He thought he could make his own image perfect, and was disappointed when it wasn't, and that by giving the free will, heart, mind, and soul, he'd also given the gift of temptation.
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Original question answeredVoted for by missrachel.
True, only one person ate the fruit. But it reflects on all of us. What I mean is, if you were in the situation you would have ate it too, we all would have. To make something off limits automatically creates curiosity, forbidden fruit, pandora's box...etc. As far as all being in Heaven, ever read Revelation? If you do you will read of the rapture when some will go, sadly others will not.
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There's more to the storyMaybe there was something more to the Fall than simply eating a fruit. God created human beings to be His children. It would be unparentlike for God to TEST humanity with a fruit. This fruit must have been something symbolic because Adam and Eve had all the fruits they could want in the Garden of Eden.Voted for by OrangeMoon.
But without going too much into that, there was another agent involved in the Fall- satan. Ever since the Fall, satan has been involved in humanity. Because God made us as His children, He cannot make us choose Him over satan. Furthermore, God cannot always stop the will or actions of satan or those whom he influences. So, realize that there is more to this than God and humans and a fruit.
Lastly, God is our parent. As another has indicated, there would be no parent-child relationship without interaction, meaning we have to take responsibility for our end of the relationship. God would not do everything for us if He truely were a parent. -
.Can we with our human minds, match the mind of a divine being?Voted for by loveyourfate.
According to one of Augustine's theories. God Created the universe and a natural order of things. After which he set everything in motion. For us to evolve in what we will become, and for us to go our own way.
Now people say, it is God's fault. Why does he not interfere? I think we all know what people would say if he interfered... I know for sure that not everyone would want that, and more than a few would hate it.
I think we people have become very arrogant about our own selves.
"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." = C.S Lewis
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