you asked some questions:
1Firstly we are directed away from questioning just how God came into existance - why? because apparently he decided not to answer that one!
2Then consider, if he's such a 'loving' God - where is he now? why are we paying for adam and eves mistake? where is the forgiveness?
3People say they were 'saved' and had a very near miss with death "oh i walked away from a car accident, it was a miracle" yet on the same day 10 people (or a lot more depending where and what disaster) die.
4If he created Adam and Eve the way he did, this being the God that knows all, surely as the designer and creator he could see they would sin!?!! surely he's not so short sighted? prior to them sinning we believe they were normal human beings that knew right and wrong, but they only knew this after eating from the tree in the garden.
5before they ate, they weren't aware of their nakedness YET GOD WAS - i dont really like the idea of being nieve and in a way, shielded from such simple things.
6How can a just God sit in heaven, watching the mess down here and not intervene? (or as some believe, he intervenes in some situations while CHOOSING not to get involved in others).
7If Christians aren't about war, then look at the israelites and the battles they fought with GODS BACKING...
8If he can forgive then why not forgive Satan? Maybe he has...
9If the bible is his inspired work, then how come men compiled the books we have? These decisions weren't by God at all! They chose what they thought was suitable.
1 God is infinite, he has always existed, he exists now and he will always exist. Before anything was, there was also no concept of the beginning, of God. It may be hard to imagine, but there was no concept of time untill God created everything.
2 God is a loving god as you assume and he created us free and with the ability to love. Love may appear to be a mysterious something but it cannot be forced, perhaps not even by god by the mere definition of love. We are free to choose and we are free to love or not to. We are here on earth to get a chance to show our love for God, with all our heart, all our passion and all our intelligence. He in turn will help us, in the same way we should help other's, not letting his left hand know what his right hand is doing, this is how God works.
3 Every day people die. Are the people that die in terrorist attacks any worse then the people dying from aids? Not at all, unless we turn around to god and Christ our savior we will die.
4 Would you think God was a loving god if he created us as robot's that automaticly did his bidding? He created us free with the ability to love, if we are not free to love and be responsible our creator who created us cannot be a loving God. I have reason to believe you have heard it before, though.
5 I'm not sure what your question is, but i assume you are disturbed by that god realised something we didn't. Was this a bad thing? I argue not, humanity was still holy and wouldn't have done anything wrong, there wasn't a need to be ashamed.
6 We humans have been given the responsebility over the earth and the animals, the fish, the birds and all other life on earth. We as humanity have abused this. If God would instantly resurrect and cure every innocent victim of all sin there would be no reason for anyone to stop sinning. Why would we stop sinning, if god cures it anyway? Its the same with smoking, if we made a cure for it, why would anyone stop smoking? If i broke a child's arm every day and god would instantly heal the bone and delight it would i have any reason not to break it again?
7 Old times of Israel were reasonably different from ours and all the nations probably to. I dont have all my facts straight but rest assured none of the nations that they did without god's backing let live corrupted them and caused many israelis to sin. In the future some of the nations they were ordered to wipe out but didn't later turned on them. God knew they were no good and of no use. Among other reasons those nations were also big strong and wealthy, while God is a god of the weak and foolish.
8 Before anyone can reasonably be forgiven there must be possibility of any form of repentance, or can you just forgive anyone that does not care about what wrong he might have done? Also, Satan was glorious and with knowledge but he chose in his perfect state to rebel against god and god rightly foresaw that he would never turn from his ways.
9 The bible is an inspired book and men wrote it all down, under inspiration (hence, inspired). The knowledge of the bible is almost constantly reaffirmed as absolute good knowledge. The book of proverbs is full of it, the gospels and many of the stories. All the prophecies that came true are backed up by science, Babylon stays desolate. Some other scientific discoveries were later only rediscovered by modern science. The originel bible is in unity with itself, conform.
I hope i have given you statisfactory answers.
But i hope you will also lay bare any problems you have with God or if you will call him that Yahweh or Jehovah. Be carefull not to make any man but the messiah your head. As you may know Satan has humanity yet again hopping after people, as vultures circling over corpses. I am not just talking about JW's and not just about the pope.
en gard, spiceant
