Could God have taken a "Short Cut"?

by JH 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

• 

  JH

  Since billions of people suffer because of Adam's sin, wouldn't there have been a better and faster way to solve the problem?
  

  After Adam and Eve's sin, why did God permit their descendants to become imperfect? Since manking has to become perfect once more during the millenium, for the only purpose of being tested once more by Satan in order to obtain eternal life.

  Couldn't the descendants of Adam have remained perfect and they could have chosen, either to obey God or Satan?

  That could have saved thousands of years, and billions of people from suffering.
• 

  nicolaou

  True, but God has more fun the way he's doing it.
• 

  robhic

  Interesting thought. Makes sense, too. And just why did A&E's descendants have to suffer for their parents' mistake? Kinda makes the scripture about a child not suffering for the parent's sin questionable and hypocritical, doesn't it?
  
  Robert
• 

  RichieRich

  According to all the Dub publications, Jesus death was a legal transaction to repurchase sinners and give them the chance to live forever.

  You would think that Jehovah, the guy wrote the rules as well as being the judges, could've just waved it off...

  Some people just have to make EVERYTHING into a production...
• 

  Satanus

  He could have had a complex of tests for each new member of mankind, administered at a certain age, when the person felt ready. Those who passed would be given the right to eat of the tree of life. The failures and those who refused the test would simply die of old age or sickness. This is not that crazy really, since that is what god supposedly did w adam and eve.

  But that idea is verifiable against reality. The ransom sacrifice and most of the other bible doctrines connected w it are imaginary, thus inverifiable. 'Course, we all die, no question there.

  S
• 

  Satanus

  The patriarcal, genocidal jews and their predecesors operated successfully under that genesis charade for thousands of yrs. However, because of greek philosophic ideas leaking in, a better way was found. Thus came 'jesus christ' whose death supposedly ripped up milleniums of slavery under a mean spiteful god. And, it supposdely demonstrated that he never really was a mean, spiteful god in the first place.

  Jh, an easier way, a true short cut is to just flush this whole bible paradigm, and start over w a clean blank page.

  S