I have so many questions. If anyone could give their input, I'd absolutely appreciate it.
1. If God has known everything from beginning to end, why didn't he know that lucifer would betray him?
2. If he knows everything from beginning to end, then why we're humans given free will if he already knows the outcome? Why let pain and suffering continue to go on when he already knows who will redeem themselves?
3. You're suppose to welcome Jesus into your heart and accept him as your savior to be welcomed into heaven, but what about the good people that were never I introduced to Christian religion and grew up believing what they were taught. That doesn't seem fair.
4. Along with questions 1 & 2, if he knows everything , then he would've known that Adam and Eve would give into temptation. So why act like it was a shock when it happened?
5. if he doesn't make mistakes, why are people and animals born with mental impairments? Disabilities? Deformities? Some people are born with the desire to torture things, lust after children and animals. Some born attracted to the same sex. Or born with schizophrenia. Why?
6. Why don't things happen today like they did back then? The great flood, the waters parting, true visions from God, the woman turning into a pillar of salt. These things don't happen anymore. Why?
I have so many more questions.
1. He did know the devil would betray Him, all things were created for His purposes, what happens to the devil in the end?
Revelation 20:10
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet
are, and
shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
2.We have the free will to choose life or death. If there was no suffering in this life what value would a eternal life of joy have to those who inherit it wherein suffering and death do not exist? God redeems man, man does not redeem himself. Men have the free will to turn from sin and repent and to believe in Christ to save them. The just will live by faith.
1 Corinthians 15:19
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
John 5:28-29
28Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
3.God knows who would be obedient to the sprinkling of blood and who wouldn't. God foreknew those who He would call to life through faith in Christ and those void of faith who would reject the Gospel and bring themselves to damnation. There is none righteous no not one when it comes to mankind.
Romans 1:20
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,
in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 10:18
18But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for
“
Their voice has gone out to all the earth,and their words to the ends of the world.”
4.Act like it was a shock?
Genesis 3:8-24 does not show God being shocked. Does it not show God's purpose in bringing mankind a Savior, that man needs a Savior to pay for sins committed in the flesh, that the devil is man's enemy, that man is disobedient towards God and easily beguiled, incapable of life without guidance from above, and that original sin has it's beginning in the flesh of Adam and Eve?
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Romans 5:18
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
5.People are not born with a desire to torture things nor to lust after children and animals. That is a false assumption. Tell me...do you see babies under 3 years old exhibit these behaviors? Absolutely not. Do you see your error?
Romans 8:7-8
7For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. 8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Luke 18:16
But Jesus called them to him, saying,
“Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
6. Perhaps you have closed your eyes and ears to miracles that happen everyday. Perhaps you are ignorant of the scriptures that speak of these times......
2 Timothy 4:3-4
3For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[SUP]
a[/SUP] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
4and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
Jude 1:17-19
17But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
18They[SUP]
f[/SUP] said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
19It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
2 Peter 2:9-16
9then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials,[SUP]
d[/SUP] and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
10and especially those who indulge[SUP]
e[/SUP] in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.
12But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
13suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions,[SUP]
f[/SUP] while they feast with you.
14They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
15Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,
16but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.