Fuzzy wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
It would be a job requiring a lot of self control and patience.
If God is timeless, then can how either make sense? Patience always requires time. Self control likely would have to as well.
Well, if you'd be going about that form of game, then Jesus is also God - God the Son - and as such He existed within time and endured a lot of crap too. If God the Father or God the Holy Spirit are timeless, in the manner you're implying, then all of the insults and disobedience and lack of acknowledgment wouldn't even be occurring in a sequence but instead would be ever before Him in totality.
Making a persons final judgment capricious. In fact, certain people would be damned in the womb. Why would god even create those people?
IDK, perhaps so as to provide an opportunity to live differently even if they should chose not to? It is kind of like, "why would God create Adam and Eve if their descendants would be so wretched?", as per what God said in Genesis 6:5-22,
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5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them." 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the account of Noah.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress [c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. [d] 16 Make a roof for it and finish [e] the ark to within 18 inches [f] of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
16 Jun 2010, 4:14 pm
