I was talking to Mom yesterday about my questioning God, the Bible, religion, all of it. I know that God is there. I believe that Christ walked this earth teaching common sense kindness lessons as well. I've spoken to several preachers/ministers, concerning the questions I have, which led to pretty much the same answers for me. "You have to walk out on faith." "You shouldn't question our Lord." "His ways are mysterious and not for us to understand."
I'm sorry, I do question. I've questioned him directly, but so far either my heart hasn't been right for answer recieving, or he's ignoring me. I know he's busy, so I can wait. My questions aren't going anywhere.
If there are any of you out there, who see this as blasphemous, stop judging. I hear that's not nice either.
What I want to know first and foremost, is why God would create a man, and a woman, his children set them down in this great big playpen of a paradise, then put something in front of them that would lead to their destruction. knowing it would lead to that.
He's God. He's perfect. He made children and then put danger, evil, wickedness in their paths?
I've been told it's because without evil, we have no need to worship God. We'd not recognize his goodness.
That sounds like so much bunk to me.
Free choice. He gave them free choice. Okay, but.. they were his children. They'd never known an ugly thing. Up until the apple sharing business, they'd only known perfection.
How can someone who has no comprehension of evil be accountable for having
made a choice to do something wrong? Our babies are born small. We teach them right from wrong, via time out's, taps on the bottom, taps on the hand, grounding them when they're older... letting them make their messes and cleaning them up by themselves. We start teaching them as babies
Adam and Eve didn't have that luxury. They were made fully grown, yet you know they had to have the minds and comprehension of innocent children. They were without sin. Until that damned forbidden fruit.
God, the perfect father, created 2 children, then placed them intentionally into a position where they could and he knew, would, be harmed, and bring that evil onto the whole of mankind.
I'm not a perfect mother. None of us down here are nowhere near perfect parents. But for the most part, barring a patch of nutcases, when we have our children, we don't set them down in a playpen of razor blades, shake our fingers at them and say, don't touch those razor blades, lest you die! We know razor blades aren't conductive to a healthy child, so we do our best to keep them away from our babies. Never, EVER would it occur to most of us to put razors in the playpen, lean back, watching, knowing they're going to cut themselves.. then think, wow, we'll look all awsome, wholesome and good to them, because we pick them up and get them to the hospital, get their wounds sutured, give them blood if necessary and a little something for the pain. Does that sound right to you?
Why didn't our Creator, who knows all, sees all, put His children someplace safe from harm? Why didn't He just put them down, pat their heads, and love them without all this "free choice, here's you some evil, let's see what you do with it, stuff?
When you get time, I want to know, What's up with that, God?