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originally posted by: ElGoobero
a reply to: Matrixsurvivor
Why does a good God allow bad things? This question has been asked as long as man has walked the earth. There is no simple answer to it.
God gave us Eden and we contaminated it with sin. We were warned that sin would lead to death. God never intended all this bad to happen. As I mentioned, He gives us free will, and sometimes we do bad stuff. Should he smack us down when we're fourteen and trip a schoolmate? He gives us all time to repent. Some accept the offer, some don't.
Please keep in mind that it's all temporary. This age will end (maybe before too long). There will be no suffering or misery in eternity when God establishes his throne in Heaven and on earth.
I knew a Christian brother who was paralyzed in an accident and was in a wheelchair for thirty years. He made his peace with God and used to say, what did it matter since he would have forever to use his new perfect body after death. I agree, look at him with man's eyes and it's an awful tragedy. Everyone suffers in this world, some more than others. I don't understand a lot of it myself. I just try to give God the benefit of the doubt and look to the next world with hope.
ps; we've all rebelled against God at some point in our lives. At least you are aware enough to admit it!
originally posted by: xstealth
originally posted by: Matrixsurvivor
a reply to: xstealth
It's because you don't understand it read Gen 6:6 and then Numbers 13:33 and you'll understand it was a war between blood lines, the non pure blooded humans had to be wiped out.
Except for when there were virgin women in those non pure blood lines.
Numbers 31:15-19New American Standard Bible (NASB)
15 And Moses said to them, “Have you spared all the women? 16 Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord. 17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. 18 But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.
Also, there were many times that the animals were all killed, as well. What did they do to inspire Yahweh's wrath??
Perhaps because they were not carrying nonhuman offspring.
originally posted by: ElGoobero
Why does a good God allow bad things? This question has been asked as long as man has walked the earth. There is no simple answer to it.
God gave us Eden and we contaminated it with sin.
God never intended all this bad to happen.
a reply to: Rapha
Oh unless he hijacked Day 6 when the Annunaki aliens landed to construct their slave race.
originally posted by: spy66
Would Eden actually be a celestial garden, some where distant from Earth?
originally posted by: cooperton
originally posted by: spy66
Would Eden actually be a celestial garden, some where distant from Earth?
I gathered that it was a higher plane of consciousness, a world of perfection where death and destruction were non-existent. The New Covenant and the commands of Jesus teach us how to reattain this archetypal state of Being:
"...To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God." Revelation 2:7
originally posted by: spy66
Genesis Chapter 3. verse 23. Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
This verse state that man (Adam and Eve) was cast out of Eden and forced back to where they were taken from.
Verse 23 in geneses Challenge the question if Lord God ever made Adam from the dust on the ground and Eve from one of Adams ribs.
originally posted by: Rapha
originally posted by: spy66
Genesis Chapter 3. verse 23. Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
This verse state that man (Adam and Eve) was cast out of Eden and forced back to where they were taken from.
Verse 23 in geneses Challenge the question if Lord God ever made Adam from the dust on the ground and Eve from one of Adams ribs.
So are you saying that God landed in his spaceship, created a laboratory called the Garden of Eden, abducted apes to create a slave race. Then when the slaves Adam and Eve had been created his lab assistant Lucifer, thought, 'this is so wrong, and showed Adam & Eve that they are slaves'. Just like Morpheus showing Neo that he is a slave in the Matrix.
Finally, the slaves were kicked out of the laboratory to fend for themselves and watched by his Watcher (Grigori) angels.
Actually Warhammer 40k is closer to what really happened. Yahweh (the Emperor), needs billions of new ground troops in the fight against the reptiles (warped seraphs).
originally posted by: spy66
When Eve was formed Lord Gods work was done in Eden Cherubims , and they were sent back to Earth. Only Adam and Eve were cast out, non of the other beasts which Lord God had formed were cast out.
originally posted by: spy66
Adam and Eve never had eternal life in Eden Cherubims.
Why didnt Lord God banish the serphant. Why was only Adam and Eve cast out and brought back to Earth?
originally posted by: Rapha
originally posted by: spy66
When Eve was formed Lord Gods work was done in Eden Cherubims , and they were sent back to Earth. Only Adam and Eve were cast out, non of the other beasts which Lord God had formed were cast out.
Interesting.
So is Jesus linked to the real God beyond the universe or is Jesus an errand boy for Lord God to create a never ending war for certain entities to feed off ?
originally posted by: cooperton
Something to think about - If the serpent didn't beguile Eve, none of us would be here today.
originally posted by: spy66
I dont think Jesus knew Lord God. Jesus probably meat Lord God in the desert when he was tempted??
Did Jesus ever speak of Eden, the tree of life or the tree of good and evil?
Did Jesus ever explaine to anyone what happened to Adam and Eve in Eden?
Personaly i dont think Jesus was Lord Gods errand boy.
God never showed him self to Jesus like Lord God did to Moses and so on as a burning bush.
Luke 2:49 indicates he knew the Father very young in his life.
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken
The Gospel of Phillip translated by Jean Leloup shows a lot of detail that Jesus gave regarding Adam and Eve
"For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me." -John 6:38
They were promised eternal life as long as they refrained from the tree of Knowledge (Gen 3:22, etc)
Something to think about - If the serpent didn't beguile Eve, none of us would be here today.
originally posted by: spy66
a reply to: cooperton
They were promised eternal life as long as they refrained from the tree of Knowledge (Gen 3:22, etc)
Right. So Lord God had to make sure he didnt have to make good on his promis. So, Lord God created the Serpent. And the two trees.
Lord Gods Eden is a contrediction to Gods creation in genesis Chapter 1.
Why would God set up Adam and Eve to be tested if he had created them in his image? In genesis Chapter one there is no mention of the Serpent or the two trees. There is no mention of man (male and female) having any restrictions. They were given domionon over everything on Earth, even all the trees. There was no exceptions given. Because they were created in the image of God and it was good.
Something to think about - If the serpent didn't beguile Eve, none of us would be here today.
That might be so. Maybe Earth would be a much better Place than it is today, and With People who were actually created in the image of God, and not in the image of Lord God.
originally posted by: Matrixsurvivor
Yes. My only hang up is why do animals kill one another? Did the true God create that or did Yahweh create animals that kill? Goodness would not create such a world.
If you compare Genesis 1 and the Creation account, it's in a different order than starting Gen. 2:4.
Jesus said things that "amazed" the common people. Why was what he said so amazing? Because it was totally against what they had been raised in.
originally posted by: spy66
Why would God set up Adam and Eve to be tested if he had created them in his image?
originally posted by: Rapha
If the Apple event didn't happen, there is a multitude of other options seeing that there are thousands of other space travelling creatures in todays universe that could have beaten the Annunaki to this planet.
Here's the conundrum: Putting humans in a perfect realm, while also giving them free will. If the human chooses imperfection, then the entire perfect creation decays and cannot return to perfection until a Redeemer comes to atone for the curse (Jesus).