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For various reasons, I am interested in how people respond to the notion that there is something inherently wrong/flawed with our concept of God's nature in relationship to the creation of man. Why did God create man when He knew the destruction which would follow? If God was not omniscient perhaps we could attribute it to oversight, not anticipating certain behaviors.. miscalculation. But God doesn't have the benefit of those "outs". He knew before he formed Adam not only that he would fall, but that because of it everything would fall like dominoes and lead to the death of Jesus.
We are told that all glory belongs to God, yet He set in motion a system which, by design, would produced untold suffering, destruction and death. He sacrificed His only Son, based on a system He set up to produce that outcome. I have heard some refer to God as sadistic or psychotic because of the system He created. We are told that a minority of human beings will be saved so again why create a species who were condemned to fail even before they were created?
This is not a discussion of free will or predestination, but rather God's nature and motivation for creating man. When Job and Paul attempted to address a similar question, they were told, basically, that God is God and they were not. I recently watched the Kirk Cameron movie, "Unstoppable". It was interesting and pretty well made, but left much of this unaddressed. I am interested in the perspectives of others especially supported with Scripture although perspective or connecting the dots in any fashion is welcome. Thank you!
We are told that all glory belongs to God, yet He set in motion a system which, by design, would produced untold suffering, destruction and death. He sacrificed His only Son, based on a system He set up to produce that outcome. I have heard some refer to God as sadistic or psychotic because of the system He created. We are told that a minority of human beings will be saved so again why create a species who were condemned to fail even before they were created?
This is not a discussion of free will or predestination, but rather God's nature and motivation for creating man. When Job and Paul attempted to address a similar question, they were told, basically, that God is God and they were not. I recently watched the Kirk Cameron movie, "Unstoppable". It was interesting and pretty well made, but left much of this unaddressed. I am interested in the perspectives of others especially supported with Scripture although perspective or connecting the dots in any fashion is welcome. Thank you!