06-17-2015, 08:47 AM
(06-17-2015, 12:24 AM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I have. A few times in this thread and others but i can again.
Since man was given free will to choose or reject God, to do good or bad and to seek forgiveness or not, when man chooses to do enough bad that it corrupts a whole city or region, through the free will they were given, they have decided to completely reject God.
Though that was the case with the flood, God still made a way for anyone that still wanted to accept him to not be affected (killed) by the flood. In the same manner that he created a way for 'the originals' to be redeemed through sacrifice and then some time after the flood, once again, created an easier way for man to be redeemed by Christ's death.
Every step of the way, the God you keep accusing, continues to make a way for man to get out of the bad he continues to do.
And it all goes back to free will. God wants people to choose to follow him. When they don't, he still waits and makes ways for them to be able to. I could understand the accusatory nature of what's been posted by a few here, but only if you were given one chance and one chance only to get it right. You're given many chances, and by any account, that can only be done through love. (picture flowers and soft music here)
What do you mean "God wants"? If I'm omniscient, I already know what they are going to do. If you are arguing he gives people "free will" knowing they will go against his wishes, then ultimately he wants the results of that or he wouldn't have created them to go against his will.
That's why it makes no sense. If I want a certain outcome and know for a fact that doing A will not result in that outcome, then it is foolish of me to knowingly say I wanted that certain outcome. He knows what everything he creates will do so, why would he "want" anything different? That's like buying an Accord and expecting it to perform like an Indy Car. Is it really the cars fault that it can't hit 200 miles per hour or is it my fault for knowingly buying it knowing the limitations?
God ultimately gets exactly what he wants. Otherwise, he is only sabotaging himself.
He can't fake ignorance on incompetence when something doesn't go his way.
That's why it is absurd to me.
