End time. Will God fail again as in the end time of Noah's day?
List of attempts to get thing right even as scripture says that all of God's works are perfect.
Heaven and angels. God creates perfect angels and finds iniquity in Satan. It is said that God is the creator of all things. This would include iniquity. How could iniquity appear in Satan if God did not place this in him?
Earth and man. God creates a perfect man and woman. These perfect entities rebel against God's command. Rebellion was also created by God. All that God creates has purpose. Why punish man for wanting the moral sense that comes from the knowledge of good and evil. Can man be complete without a moral sense when both God and the Church work hard to help us develop one?
Earth and man again after Noah. To restart His initial failed system where evil and sin had been born, God destroys the world with a genocidal flood and restarts with supposedly pure good stock in Noah and his kin. Evil and sin reemerge again somehow.
End time judgment. God seems to have failed to date to keep evil and sin out of man. We are even told that it is in our God given nature and that evil and sin is created by God. Some scripture even indicate that God wants man to sin so that he can repent which seems to be a requirement to get into heaven. I find this to be a logical position for God to take if all that He creates, in terms of sin and evil, are to serve His purposes. This would mean that we have learned our moral lesson and can recognize the good and evil within us. This also allows God to save all of us as any loving God with access to miracles would do.
We then see three attempts that have not turned out the way, it seems, that God wants.
My question, then to believers in a literal Bible especially and whoever else would like to comment are--
What makes you think that God will get it right the next time when He has failed at least 3 times in the past?
If God's works are perfect then are we living in a perfect state and God does not have to return to fix what, as perfect, cannot be broken and follows it's perfect nature?
For literal readers of scripture I offer as back up for God perfection and perfect works a quote and also a quote showing that it is God's will that none be lost while at the same time the above shows clearly that His will is not being done.
Deuteronomy 32:4
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My post on this goes to disclaim the whole idea of Noah.
Why did no one else's boats work?
Animals eat other animals, yet they all lived 2 by 2 peacefully on the boat.
I have more questions to this historical document but I think these questions will suffice for now.
Will anyone care to answer these, or ignore them and put them from their minds?
As for all the rest of that "will God get it right question". Isn't it us who are getting it wrong? If God programmed us to do exactly what we were supposed to do wouldn't that defeat the whole point?
Edited: Oliron on 19th Apr, 2010 - 1:19am