Can anyone come up with a morally acceptable reason for waiting thousands of years to end wickedness? (page 7)

The Finger

By believing in Christ your whole life is serving God everything you do.

Your sin is a lack of faith.

The highest moral reason, dear GB (peace to you!)... which is love... borne out in the knowledge that some of those whom you intend to save have not been born, yet, and ending the "wicked" might bring an end to them... because their parents/foreparents may be among those "wicked." (And for anyone who says that cannot be, please let me tell you that I am watching an episode of Oprah dedicated to men who have been molested. Some... by their own biological parent).

So, you let the "weeds" remain... until all of the "wheat" has ripened. While doing so, however, you continue to regularly 'water' the wheat... so that it does not burn in the sun or get choked out by the weeds.

Eventually, however, ALL of the wheat DOES become fully ripened. And THEN... comes the "harvest". When ALL is uprooted... and rather than being used for "bread"... the weeds are cast out and burned.

But so as to not lose one seed... you sometimes have to let the crop grow wild.

I bid you peace!

A slave of Christ,

SA

OnTheWayOut

Sorry, AGuest. That's been addressed before. The longer He waits, the more people have to die. So a handful of wheat hasn't been born yet, but bushels more of innocent people will be corrupted and put to suffering and killed. And with that logic, there cannot be a cutting off point. There are always going to be a few more innocents born who will fit some category of "wheat." So we wait for eons more and allow endless bushels more of weeds to develop.

The real reason is that God laid all these tough-to-discern mathematical rules in the Bible and He patiently waited until someone figured them all out. Once that happens (or happened) then God will look so much wiser to those that figured out His hidden rules. Then the end can come.

Twitch

Tis a long wait for a train late,...

However, to respond to the question posed, first thought is to question the boundaries of the question, specifically the definitions of what is moral, what is acceptable, what is time and what is wickedness. Define these and one could answer with those definitions. Define these in an absolute way and one might have absolute truth to answer the question absolutely, in a sense. But can that which is less than absolute know what is absolute? A definition of what is absolute by that which is less than cannot be done. A definition of those absolute to those not cannot be understood. Therefore, the question is moot and has no definite answer. This does not mean there is an absolute answer. That which is less can never know.

Eh, whatever. lol

leavingwt

Please give an example of an action that is not self-serving.

leavingwt

By believing in Christ your whole life is serving God everything you do.

Your sin is a lack of faith.

What is the solution for "a lack of faith"? Do I force myself to believe or does God give me the faith as a gift?

White Dove

How long does it take for humans to get to know and trust each other?

How long do you think it took the angels to get to know and trust their god?

How long do you think it took the angels and God to get to know human psychology and sociology?

Then, why the HELL does it need to take 1,000's of years for God to make one single point to beings he's known for many 1,000's of years?

Why are humans being used to make said point for said amount of time when those very people die off so quickly?

Why does it take 1,000's of generations of humans to prove to the angels (who should know human psychology BY NOW) that some of those humans love God enough to die for him?

HUH?

Is God a sadist, per chance, for using humans in this way?

Genesis is written from the perspective of a human's viewpoint.

Why is one creative day described as 24 hours, literally, but not viewed as 24 hours?

Who writes this stuff?

"This is some crazy shit up with which I will not put!"--Scary Movie

simon17

Shame on you White Dove!

If he had ended things earlier, then the angels would all be asking one another "perhaps if God only allowed humans to develop communism and nazism, then things would have been different and makind would be able to rule themselves". If that were the case, nothing would be solved at all!

factfinder

God has not allowed humans to develop their full potential. He allowed us to inherit sin and death. Then he sent the devil and his demons to the earth to take over and interfere.

So humans never had a chance to show if they could rule themselves satsfactorily without God since he boobytrapped us!

What is God's facination with the devil? why is satan so important to him? what is the relationship between satan and Jehovah? Who cares what the devil says or accuses us of? I don't!

Why would an all-knowing, all-powerful, just God let billions of humans, not to mention billions of animals suffer and die because some angel challenged his right to rule?

Why would God accept a bet? And with the devil? something is very wrong here! No-it is not morrally acceptable at all.

AGuest

So a handful of wheat hasn't been born yet, but bushels more of innocent people will be corrupted and put to suffering and killed. ... So we wait for eons more and allow endless bushels more of weeds to develop.

In this scenario, dear ones (peace to you!), the poster misses his own point: that the "bushels"... are weeds... and thus, aren't "innocent"... as well as that if they indeed "suffer" and are killed as implicated, it would be at the hand of their fellow weeds.

In another scenario, however, the "bushels" are also "wheat"... and make up a great crowd... in addition to at least one bushel (or maybe two) that consists of those resurrected.

My advice (if I were to give such) would be that one should hold onto one's horses and not get one's chonies in a bunch... because harvest will come. In the meantime, one might try trying to make out just what "bushel" they're in. 'Cause it will matter... in the long run.

A slave of Christ,

SA

Can anyone come up with a morally acceptable reason for waiting thousands of years to end wickedness?

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