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Quote by: JaneDoe321  The part of the story that always makes me annoyed is the prologue where god creates *everything* and knows *everything*.
So if god knowingly made creatures that he/she KNEW were going to rebel, or if he created them like some cosmic science experiment, how freakin' sadistic IS it to punish them when they act as programmed.
It's the fundamental point of anger in me whenever I think of religions with this whole "God made everything" concept as the basis. |
Interestingly enough, the bible actually addresses that:
It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?" But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath--prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory.
I have also had a LOT of hard questions about God, and I continue to have these questions. I am still very new to faith. But I have been surprised to find, that I am finding my answers in the bible.