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Why Did God Make Us With So Many Defects?
By Billy Graham, Tribune Media Services
Q: I don't mean to be disrespectful, but why did God make us with so
many defects? Why didn't He make us so we wouldn't sin and do bad
things like make wars? It seems to me that if He'd done a better job
of making us, we wouldn't have all these bad things, would we? - C.J.
A: You are right about one thing: We do live in a world that's constantly torn by conflict, injustice and even death. And you're right also when you say that we're responsible for these things - because we are. Jesus said, "Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander" (Matthew 15:19).
But God is not responsible for these terrible things - because the world was perfect when He created it - and so were we. The Bible says that after God created the world, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (Genesis 1:31). God is perfect - and all He made was perfect also.
What went wrong? The problem is that Adam and Eve, the first humans, deliberately chose to turn their backs on God. God didn't make them like robots or puppets; they had the ability to choose between good and evil. And when Satan tempted them and told them that God was deceiving them, they believed him - and they sinned (see Genesis 3:1-13).
We'll never understand evil completely in this life; the Bible calls it a "mystery" (2 Thessalonians 2:7). But the most important truth about Satan and evil is that they were defeated, when Jesus Christ died and rose again. Is your faith and trust in Him? He alone has power over evil and death and Hell.
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07-02-2009 03:59
Dominik wrote:
DEAR BG
BG: Adam and Eve, the first humans, deliberately chose to turn their backs on God.
DOM: Another opinion of your BG and not a Biblical fact. It is ONLY Adam who deliberately turn his back to God. Eve was ignorant of the first law given by God to Adam. Eve was not even been created yet when God gave the ordiance to Adam
Let’s verify again the Bible so that I will not post my own opinion not like what BG is doing. Please read:
Gen 2:17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
It was not deliberate on the part of EVE because she was only DECEIVED by SATAN.
Gen 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Was ADAM beguiled by the serpent? No! No verse in the Bible. And he even pointed Eve to God as the one who caused him to eat the fruit and not admitting his fault, knowing the first law…
BG, be CAREFUL AGAIN next time… Make sure that what you are posting are facts of the Bible cause you may spreading DECEIVING infos.
Thanks be to God
Dominik
BG: Adam and Eve, the first humans, deliberately chose to turn their backs on God.
DOM: Another opinion of your BG and not a Biblical fact. It is ONLY Adam who deliberately turn his back to God. Eve was ignorant of the first law given by God to Adam. Eve was not even been created yet when God gave the ordiance to Adam
Let’s verify again the Bible so that I will not post my own opinion not like what BG is doing. Please read:
Gen 2:17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
It was not deliberate on the part of EVE because she was only DECEIVED by SATAN.
Gen 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Was ADAM beguiled by the serpent? No! No verse in the Bible. And he even pointed Eve to God as the one who caused him to eat the fruit and not admitting his fault, knowing the first law…
BG, be CAREFUL AGAIN next time… Make sure that what you are posting are facts of the Bible cause you may spreading DECEIVING infos.
Thanks be to God
Dominik
07-02-2009 03:20
Dominik wrote:
DEAR CJ
(Part 2)
Good day
I am Dominik Dumaraos from the Philippines... a member of the ONLY TRUE CHURCH OF GOD which is in the Bible... THE CHURCH OF GOD... presided over by THE ONLY SENSIBLE PREACHER of our time... his name is BRO ELI SORIANO.
Compare him to other preachers to know who really is the man of God. we are always up for that challenge. Dont just believe preachers holding the Bible to look as if he is a man of God. TEST THEIR SPIRIT (I John 4:1).
AND WE ARE SUBMITTING OUR GROUP TO TEST SPECIALLY OUR PREACHER.
Study with us... and learn the correct teachings of God sent thru our Bro. Eli, the only preacher in the universe who answers questions BIBLICALLY,,, LIVE!!! re faith AROUND THE WORLD.
Visit our address: wwwuntvwebcom / wwwangdatingdaanorg
wwwesorianowordpresscom
my ym is domdum06@yahoocom if there are things u want to clarify.
MAY YOU FIND THE RIGHT PATH (jer 6:16)
Thanks be to God
dominik
(Part 2)
Good day
I am Dominik Dumaraos from the Philippines... a member of the ONLY TRUE CHURCH OF GOD which is in the Bible... THE CHURCH OF GOD... presided over by THE ONLY SENSIBLE PREACHER of our time... his name is BRO ELI SORIANO.
Compare him to other preachers to know who really is the man of God. we are always up for that challenge. Dont just believe preachers holding the Bible to look as if he is a man of God. TEST THEIR SPIRIT (I John 4:1).
AND WE ARE SUBMITTING OUR GROUP TO TEST SPECIALLY OUR PREACHER.
Study with us... and learn the correct teachings of God sent thru our Bro. Eli, the only preacher in the universe who answers questions BIBLICALLY,,, LIVE!!! re faith AROUND THE WORLD.
Visit our address: wwwuntvwebcom / wwwangdatingdaanorg
wwwesorianowordpresscom
my ym is domdum06@yahoocom if there are things u want to clarify.
MAY YOU FIND THE RIGHT PATH (jer 6:16)
Thanks be to God
dominik
07-02-2009 03:16
Dominik wrote:
Dear CJ,
When God created Man... it is GOOD. Please read:
Genesis 1:31 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good...
God gave us FREEWILL, Our FATE is in our HANDS... to choose between RIGHT and WRONG.
ISAIAH 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
DEUT 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: (and so many verses)
IT' s our CHOICE. Now if we choose DEATH... can we blame God?
Choose LIFE, CJ.... and life here is temporary. There is EVERLASTING LIFE that we should AIM... and what will happen to those who did not choose life?
Apocalypse 12:15 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Thanks be to God
Dominik
member
The Church of God
15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
When God created Man... it is GOOD. Please read:
Genesis 1:31 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good...
God gave us FREEWILL, Our FATE is in our HANDS... to choose between RIGHT and WRONG.
ISAIAH 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
DEUT 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: (and so many verses)
IT' s our CHOICE. Now if we choose DEATH... can we blame God?
Choose LIFE, CJ.... and life here is temporary. There is EVERLASTING LIFE that we should AIM... and what will happen to those who did not choose life?
Apocalypse 12:15 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Thanks be to God
Dominik
member
The Church of God
15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
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