Why does God Allow Bad Things to Happen?
(Part 2)
Next Argument: But God knows EVERYTHING, right? So why did He let this or that happen, KNOWING that this or that would happen?
I believe that God can see the PATHS of choices, but I don't think He can see what choice we make.
But, you argue, "He's omnipotent!" Yes, He is. He's so omnipotent that He also made us pretty powerful ourselves. The first thing He wanted to see is our CHOICE. He had no idea what we were going to do. If He did, He might as well have just created drones.
Genesis 2:19Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name
Choice, people. Free Will.
He wanted "to see" what Man was going to name each living creature. "To see"...not "He knew." "He Knew" what choices Man had for names, but He did NOT know which one Man was going to choose. This is what he wanted "to see."
We can tell a child not to play with fire because it will burn. We, as adults, would understand what that means. It means pain. It means suffering. It means being taken to the hospital, poked with needles, scrapped off dead skin, and weeks of agony. We can SEE what would happen if that child played with fire. We can even "prophesied" the different paths that could take place.
Does the child know what will happen? If the child truly, TRULY, understood what would happen, the child would never do it. But the child doesn't TRULY understand. The child has some idea that it's "bad", but he or she wants to do it anyway. OR...they can choose not to play with fire.
Does the parent KNOW what choice the child is going to take? No.
Does the parent KNOW what might happen with each choice? Yes.
So the part about God knowing EVERYTHING can really mean EVERYTHING in a particular way. The part about being omnipotent is that He can create things, look at things, and He knows how to proceed with His plans. If God was omnipotent in the way that WE want to define HIM, then we just don't know WHO He IS. A Human (mutated) mind, is actually limited, therefore we're actually limiting Him.
He's a God who needs rest (Genesis 2:2)
He's a God who has help (i.e. angels)
He's a God who changes His mind (Genesis 6:6-8)
He's a God who feels anger, love, jealousy and sadness
He's a God who makes covenants with His creation (The flood Genesis 9:15)
He's a God who will negotiate with His creation (Abraham, Sodom and Gomorrah Genesis 18:20-33)
Bottom line.....We were created in His Image, therefore we are like Him, and can be even More like Him if we would just follow His instructions.
He's just "been there and done that" (Genesis 3:22). He knows what Good and Evil REALLY mean. In the beginning, Adam and Eve know Good and Evil...in a way, but not as clearly. They have somewhat of an "idea" of what it means. But, God knows what was going to happen that they didn't know. After they made their Choice, God, then, couldn't let them make too much of a mess of things by having immortality, knowing that they have a LOoooonnnnnnggggg road ahead of them to learn how to return to be like God.
Why did God let all those people die? Why does God allow suffering? Why do innocents have to suffer?
Nothing of sin or evil has anything to do with God. It has everything to do with US. WE corrupted the land. We cause suffering.
We are all connected, though we are individuals, our united choices causes things to happen. We are like the ants and the bees--Individuals, but part of an entire network which accomplishes single work projects. We are all parts of a whole: like car parts that make a car able to move; like individual ingredients that make a cake; like body pieces that make a living creature.
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