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  Was God's biggest mistake making humans?

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  fun discussion to have punkofnice. Unfortunately, not one I can answer about. Please go to the section on the Bosom of Abraham. And by the way, the concept of God being love is not iterated in so many words anywhere in the Bible. God is Righteous, and sin cannot touch Him or communicate with Him. Thus, the sacrifice of His Son, and a bridge home for sinners. It's a phone call from Millionaire, asking you the 64000 dollar question. Do you Accept? If you answer yes, you're in by faith. If you answer no, you may have more chances to answer yes, or you may not. God may allow you to harden your heart. Or he may give you repentence, and let you turn to Him. This is the format of the books of 1 and 2 Kings, before Christ came to earth. Every King who repented and turned back to God was rewarded in his own lifetime and found favor in the eyes of God and People. At the time, the people only had the first five books of the law available to them. Some kept the law and the sacrificial system God had implemented. Most did not. And throughout the old testament, some people still chose to remain faithful to God. At that time, God spoke to men through the prophets. Read Habakuk, for example. It's short, but it is a message. But it was what God needed to communicate to the people of the time.

  Habakkuk 2:4 "Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith." And in another fairly short prophecy, Micah answers a rhetorical question to help the people see that they are not doomed and that God is not asking too much of them. Micah 6:8

  8He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?

  Ephesians 2:8-9 New International Version (NIV)

  8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

  Galations 2:15-16 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified b by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
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  Genesis 1:26

  Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

  Romans 5:12

  Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned--

  Humans were not a mistake. Free will was not a mistake either. God could not have created humans in his image without free will, because he had free will. God also had free will to create an angel, Lucifer, with any amount of power. He created him with enough power to dare to usurp him.

  Isaiah 14:10-15

  10All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

  11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

  12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

  13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

  14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

  15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

  So you see that the Lord Himself tells us why he created free will, mankind, and even Satan. He rules them all. He will have the final victory. And he will not be mocked. To God be the glory!

  It is not a question of whether God made and mistakes in creating Man. The question is whether you are willing to put the Old Man, who brought you the law of Sin and Death, out of your life. To do so, you must be vigilant to walk in the New Man, the Life God gave you in Christ, who rose from the dead and conquered the law of sin and death. The life of walking in the New Man is a life of profound freedom. And the free will God gives us now is a choice between walking in the Old Man, miserable, dying, and going to Hell; or the choice of Walking in the New Man: set free, joyful, living, and going to Heaven.
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  Was God's biggest mistake making humans?

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  pridegoethb4

  Genesis 1:26

  Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

  Romans 5:12

  Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned--

  Humans were not a mistake. Free will was not a mistake either. God could not have created humans in his image without free will, because he had free will. God also had free will to create an angel, Lucifer, with any amount of power. He created him with enough power to dare to usurp him.

  Isaiah 14:10-15

  10All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

  11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

  12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

  13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

  14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

  15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

  So you see that the Lord Himself tells us why he created free will, mankind, and even Satan. He rules them all. He will have the final victory. And he will not be mocked. To God be the glory!

  It is not a question of whether God made and mistakes in creating Man. The question is whether you are willing to put the Old Man, who brought you the law of Sin and Death, out of your life. To do so, you must be vigilant to walk in the New Man, the Life God gave you in Christ, who rose from the dead and conquered the law of sin and death. The life of walking in the New Man is a life of profound freedom. And the free will God gives us now is a choice between walking in the Old Man, miserable, dying, and going to Hell; or the choice of Walking in the New Man: set free, joyful, living, and going to Heaven.