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Christians, explain to me how this makes sense?
How much sense does it make to blame a bunch of flawed people that you made for the actions they undertook? Picture this, you create people with a flawed human nature. They then act according to that nature. You then blame them for acting according to the nature they were created with. To me this seems like insanity.
10 Answers
- Anonymous7 years ago
He didn't create flawed people. He created perfect people. And he gave them free will, to choose for themselves. They weren't flawed, they made their own decisions. Unfortunately the first human couple decided to go against God. To illustrate: Say you are a landlord. But you are a generous landlord. You provide all the furnishings and food, everything! Even perfect health. Then your tenants decide they don't want your help anymore. They want to use the home you created for their own selfish use and leave you out of it all together. Ignore you. What do you do? Any sensible landlord would cut off everything. And yet God hasn't entirely cut everything off. He has given a guide book, to help those who genuinely want to do things God's way. And God has given a time limit, just like a Landlord does when he is going to evict those that refuse to treat his creation/property without the respect owing to the owner.
Source(s): www.jw.org - ?Lv 77 years ago
It doesn't make sense.
If God gives them the capacity to disobey him, then he is ultimately responsible for the fact that they disobeyed him. It makes even less sense when you consider that they had no knowledge of good and evil, and that God allowed a snake to convince them to disobey him.
It's like giving a toddler poisoned chocolate and telling them not to eat it.
And if free will exists, and all actions are a result of free will, and not a result of the nature of the person doing the action, then you cannot say someone is evil just because they did evil actions. They were simply acting on their free will. Adam and Eve would be just as "perfect" after they disobeyed God as before, so it wouldn't make sense to punish them.
- 7 years ago
It is insane if the word "you" refers to the same person. But in view of Christianity, God creates flawed people, and the so called normal people blame for the unfavored acts of the flawed ones. No Christians know whether God also blames those people. Killing is a sin. But when a person kills somebody, we Christians do not know whether God blames him for the killing he makes.
- UserLv 77 years ago
The explanation is this: people have "free will", which is to say: people choose how to act, and people choose to misuse what we have been given.
Consider if you were the creator of a tool - say, a screwdriver. The tool is not perfect - it can break if used as a pry bar, for example; it can be used for immoral purposes it was never intended, such as murder or sabotage - but if used as intended it is a perfect tool.
Now: that tool is used to murder someone.
Who is at fault: the creator, who did not make the tool in such a way that it could not be used for murder, or the person who misused the tool as a murder weapon?
God made humans. He did not make humans for sin. However, humans have the ability - the option - to misuse their physical bodies for sinful acts. Who is at fault - the creator of the human body, or the one who chooses to misuse the human body they have been given to engage in sinful acts?
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- GregoryLv 77 years ago
what your saying does not make sense because you have it wrong
god did not create us with a flawed nature
we corrupted ourselves by our own actions
- Anonymous7 years ago
They were created good. They were told. How would you know otherwise? Ted Bundy?...seemed nice, quiet?
So you don't blame him, let him continue? People reap.
- ?Lv 57 years ago
You are assuming that you don’t have a choice. But you do.
In the beginning when God created life the universe and everything, he gave man freedom of choice. The choice to choose right from wrong, good from bad, generosity from greed, being helpful from hindrance, loving from lust, etc. If we choose what is right there is a cost and there is also a benefit, if we choose what is wrong there may be a benefit but there is always a consequence. The consequence of our decision to do what is wrong not only affects us, but also those around us.
Here is some light reading for you:
Predestination versus Choice
http://christianversustheworld.blogspot.com.au/201...
Understanding Grace
- Anonymous7 years ago
after that they can explain why an omnipotent being of infinite power needed to take a day to 'rest'
Source(s): Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" Epicurus.