| JGarret said: I never understood the concept that, this God being so perfect and all, wouldn´t have known there would be the 'fall of man' and the whole *** that would result from it. If God (the one in the Bible) is the truly omnipotent know-it-all entity, wouldn´t it have been foreseen?....even so, creates man knowing how things would go?...It sounds like a game and we´re chess pieces. Or is it something far more complicated than that? Damn, there are so many unanswered question, so much darkness (even for those who claim to have 'seen the light')..we´re all left out in the dark.. just wondering this, that, if, when, what, how, etc... People are born, grow a conciousness, then they either believe purely on faith or are condemned forever?...Sounds like a game, and you´re part of it whether you want it or not. |
Would man's fall been forseen by an omnipotent God? Yes, most likely. However, put yourself in God's shoes for a moment:
Your an omnipotent being, in control of all space, time, matter, ect. Yet you are the only thing that exists. So what are your options?
1) Create a robotic race of people with no free will, forced to serve you for the most part
2) Create a race of beings that do have free will, and can, and may decide to desert you, but some have a relationship with you entirely out of choice.
What would you choose? In the Bible's case, God chose both. But I look at it this way: What were his options? If he had the ability to exist and have some sort of feelings (as the Bible says he does have feelings, and is sentient), then he should also know the feeling of boredom, and relationships - to which the human race was created for - a relationship with God. Of course, according to the Bible, we decided to screw that up pretty quickly. But nevertheless, I believe that God took the risk of us becoming traitors in favor of us also having free will.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
