Did God make bugs?

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Did God create bugs?

  • Yes--I have no idea why

    Votes: 10 100.0%

  • No-they're disgusting and a deformity that were deformed by sin

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Definitely not

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Of course not

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thefightinglamb

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AS I was squishing nasty bugs on my mother's fruit trees that were climbing all over each other in some nasty way (if you know what I mean)...thios thought occurred to me...
Did God make these bugs? Did they march two by two into the Ark? Two ticks, two feas, two mosquitos...

See the other option is that they are a deformity of nature...perhaps they once were something profound and they just became deformed through sin...and thus they all are bent on destroying things kind of by necessity...

We just planted these fruit trees and strawberries, blackberries, and even a fig tree!

And out of no where come these mysterious disgusting bugs that seek to devour them, they climb on top of each other in some disgusting mating ritual and it reminded me of a good friend I have had...Ethan Crouch...he would not kill a mosquito that bit him because God said not to kill...but these bugs devour things--they are like physical hell...

Like chiggers--has nayone on here ever had chiggers? I can almost promise the first time I had a chigger bite (its almost the same with poison ivy/oak) I thought God had sent one of the final plagues and I was infested...

SO whats up with bugs???

God bless
tony
 
jaylynn83

jaylynn83

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hahahahah you thought god sent a plague of chiggers on you!!!! ive always wondered myself about how bugs got here........ maybe the ticks were in noahs hair.... and the fleas coulda been on the animals....
 
whiteknite

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A lot of bugs might have a real good purpose. Like bees pollenate flowers and make honey.
What I have wondered about are flies. :eek: Aside from feeding spiders, I can't think of any good purpose for them

THEY ARE GROSSS!!!!!! :eek:
But that's just my opinion.
 
jaylynn83

jaylynn83

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i hate flies!!! Satan had to of made those
 
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KingdomGeneration

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I hate bloodsuckers... fleas, flies, mosquitos, gnats or anything else that makes me itch and swell when they bite. *lol*

I am confident that they do serve a purpose in God's grand scheme of things. God is the most awesome of awesomeness!
 
Soldier_Of_Christ

Soldier_Of_Christ

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Bugs serve many purposes. Pollination was mentioned. If there were no termites or similar bugs it would take a very long time for fallen trees or leaves to rot away. Some bugs, like flies, could be nothing more than a self replicating food source for birds and other animals that eat them. Other's like butterflies add beauty to the world just as flowers do.

Noah's flood only killed those who had the "breath of life" in their "nostrils" (Gen 7:22). Bugs do not have nostrils or lungs. They breath through their skin much like plants. The Bible says the life of the flesh is in the blood. Adam was not alive until God breathed into him the breath of life. The only insects I know that have blood are those that bite another animal to obtain it. As such it would seem that insects are simply the next level up from plant life. Therefore can you really call it killing or taking life when you smash a bug.

Satan cannot create and therefore cannot be blamed for bugs. Some bugs might be somewhat deteriorated in their genetic makeup since creation but most if not all are still so amazingly complex that giving satan credit for them would be far too high a compliment. While mosquitoes and flies, at times, might make you stop and question their source we have to also stop and think about predatory animals like lions, bears, sharks, and the like. While it's hard to imagine them being part of a perfect creation, seeing as they survive off the death of other animals. But in these we are given, "echoes of Eden." Panda's have the same vicious teeth and claws as other carnivores and yet survive mostly on bamboo. Black bears also have a significant portion of their diet in berries, bugs, grubs and such like. At least one female lion was known to live its entire life on a strictly vegetarian diet and even mother an orphaned antelope. These remind us not only of a time when nothing killed anything else, but a future time when the lion shall lay down with the lamb and such like prophecies coming to pass. The reason they don't behave like that universally is because of the fall and entrance of sin into the world.

In like fashion it then doesn't seem such a stretch to consider that mosquitoes and such bugs possibly had other purposes before the fall and were not a nuisance to anyone or anything. I would not be surprised to learn that there are, or were before the fall, plants that mosquitoes could bite and receive whatever protein they need to procreate rather than biting and extracting blood from an animal or human. If lions and other predators didn't attack humans or other animals before the flood, maybe flies and other insects left humans alone and didn't damage the living plants that we humans use for food or decoration.

I'm always amazed when I study God's creation, even when I study insects. What is more amazing is when I remind myself that this is the cursed version of creation. It is nothing compared to what God blessed Adam and Eve with before the fall, and by far not to be compared with the new heavens and new earth where God's people will spend eternity.
 
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Baptistrw

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thefightinglamb said:
AS I was squishing nasty bugs on my mother's fruit trees that were climbing all over each other in some nasty way (if you know what I mean)...thios thought occurred to me...
Did God make these bugs? Did they march two by two into the Ark? Two ticks, two feas, two mosquitos...

See the other option is that they are a deformity of nature...perhaps they once were something profound and they just became deformed through sin...and thus they all are bent on destroying things kind of by necessity...

We just planted these fruit trees and strawberries, blackberries, and even a fig tree!

And out of no where come these mysterious disgusting bugs that seek to devour them, they climb on top of each other in some disgusting mating ritual and it reminded me of a good friend I have had...Ethan Crouch...he would not kill a mosquito that bit him because God said not to kill...but these bugs devour things--they are like physical hell...

Like chiggers--has nayone on here ever had chiggers? I can almost promise the first time I had a chigger bite (its almost the same with poison ivy/oak) I thought God had sent one of the final plagues and I was infested...

SO whats up with bugs???

God bless
tony
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No bugs on Noah's ark, unless they were living on the animals.
 
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Baptistrw

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Soldier_Of_Christ said:
Bugs serve many purposes. Pollination was mentioned. If there were no termites or similar bugs it would take a very long time for fallen trees or leaves to rot away. Some bugs, like flies, could be nothing more than a self replicating food source for birds and other animals that eat them. Other's like butterflies add beauty to the world just as flowers do.

Noah's flood only killed those who had the "breath of life" in their "nostrils" (Gen 7:22). Bugs do not have nostrils or lungs. They breath through their skin much like plants. The Bible says the life of the flesh is in the blood. Adam was not alive until God breathed into him the breath of life. The only insects I know that have blood are those that bite another animal to obtain it. As such it would seem that insects are simply the next level up from plant life. Therefore can you really call it killing or taking life when you smash a bug.

Satan cannot create and therefore cannot be blamed for bugs. Some bugs might be somewhat deteriorated in their genetic makeup since creation but most if not all are still so amazingly complex that giving satan credit for them would be far too high a compliment. While mosquitoes and flies, at times, might make you stop and question their source we have to also stop and think about predatory animals like lions, bears, sharks, and the like. While it's hard to imagine them being part of a perfect creation, seeing as they survive off the death of other animals. But in these we are given, "echoes of Eden." Panda's have the same vicious teeth and claws as other carnivores and yet survive mostly on bamboo. Black bears also have a significant portion of their diet in berries, bugs, grubs and such like. At least one female lion was known to live its entire life on a strictly vegetarian diet and even mother an orphaned antelope. These remind us not only of a time when nothing killed anything else, but a future time when the lion shall lay down with the lamb and such like prophecies coming to pass. The reason they don't behave like that universally is because of the fall and entrance of sin into the world.

In like fashion it then doesn't seem such a stretch to consider that mosquitoes and such bugs possibly had other purposes before the fall and were not a nuisance to anyone or anything. I would not be surprised to learn that there are, or were before the fall, plants that mosquitoes could bite and receive whatever protein they need to procreate rather than biting and extracting blood from an animal or human. If lions and other predators didn't attack humans or other animals before the flood, maybe flies and other insects left humans alone and didn't damage the living plants that we humans use for food or decoration.

I'm always amazed when I study God's creation, even when I study insects. What is more amazing is when I remind myself that this is the cursed version of creation. It is nothing compared to what God blessed Adam and Eve with before the fall, and by far not to be compared with the new heavens and new earth where God's people will spend eternity.
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Yep good stuff.
 
jaylynn83

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that was a joke........ dont get spastic on me again...
 
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CristenJ

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God created bugs so that people could debate about the purpose of bugs, of course...

But you know, there are some really nifty lookin bugs...I saw one on the Discovery channel a long time ago, it was a shiny black beetle but had these like...elephant feet...it rocked. Anyway...

I thought flies were around to help break down waste? Maybe someone already said that. I guess I could pay attention.

What gets me about bugs is why there are so many different TYPES of ONE kind of bug. Not that I'm questioning whether God made so many for a reason, but my tiny human mind can't grasp it.
 
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missy2shoes

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arghhhhh Australia has that many flies in summer it drives me bazonkers!!!!.......apparently China has no flies.......*Missy thinks about moving to China*.......
 
jaylynn83

jaylynn83

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Whens our flight!!! i came down stairs once and there were like 30 some flies in my house!! (i had accidently left a window wide open shhhhhhh I KNOW ) i went after those flies with a vengence!!!!
 
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