Tough Questions for Christians #6: Gods Failures

The sixth in the ongoing "Tough Questions for Christians" series.

An ongoing series in which I challenge Christians to think beyond the "standard answers."

Is the Bible a true history of a PERFECT being?

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[sweetdietqueen]

lol well i commend u for ur questions BUT

the first thing u should know about God is that he allows everyone the choice to live life as they please. he allows the sun to shine on everyone equally. he is not a slvae driver and he doesnt want man to be forced into worshipping him. Do u not think that God would have NOT created the tree of good and bad and not planted it in thee middle of eden then man would have never fallen. but he wanted to give man the choice. tbc

[sweetdietqueen]

@sweetdietqueen cont'd

what u consider as God's failure, I consider as man's failure. man failed the very first test in the garden of eden and they were casted into a world of pain and suffering. every scenario u mentioned was man begging God for redemption, and God providing a way out. israelites asked for freedom, God sent moses, aaron and eventually joshua. man wanted jjudges and kings. God never wanted a King for israel but the people begged for that so he granted them their wish tbc

[sweetdietqueen]

@sweetdietqueen anyway bottom line is that man disobeyed God, sinned against him, hated him etc but despite all man has done against him since the beginning of creation, he has never stopped loving man and trying to create a way for man to be delivered from the hands of the enemy and he's still doing that for us till today. I cannot imaginr loivng anyone for so long who has done nothin but hate me torture me and make my life miserable. i think God is wonderful and patient

[azsuperman01]

@sweetdietqueen I can't imagine anyone creating a torture chamber for their children, then setting up a system of laws in which those they are all born guilty... then creating an "enemy" who's entire purpose is to make life miserable and lead the children into the torture chamber.

[azsuperman01]

@sweetdietqueen If you consider God as less-than-all-powerful and less-than-all-knowing, then I can accept that it may be man's fault. God may be doing his best, but he is simply unable to forsee that humans will not behave as he predicted they would. If, however, you think God is all-knowing and all-powerful -- then it makes no sense. He knows in advance which plans will fail and which will succeed, and there is no reason for him to continue with plans that he knows in advance will fail.

[azsuperman01]

@sweetdietqueen Apparently man had choice while still in the garden, otherwise they would not have "chosesn" to eat from the tree in the first place... unless you think eating from the tree was not a concious choice.

[yuvanrockstar]

@azsuperman01 I believe God is the most powerful person who we can imagine. I also believe that its not that he is infinite powerful! He too has restrictions. But your thinking on Jesus Crucifiction as God's failure doesn't make any sense coz that wasn't a failure that was a success. Thats how he saved the world. He is not someone who can think of something and make it happen all of a sudden. He is mighty powerful but that doesn't mean that he can do anything in any why at any time.

[SummerSunshine1988]

God doesn't fail at anything He sets out to do.

[kimkerchner]

God has never failed. Man has failed and God is rich in mercy and kindness and good. Why are you so angry at God? Have you ever thanked God for anything? Is there anything you are thankful for? God gave you life, food, clothes, friends, family, a place to sleep, education, health, air, yet you don't seem to give God credit for anything. Ask God to soften your hard heart. Once you have a new heart, you will have new desires and understand God in a different way.

[xquse18]

jUST LOOK AT YOURSELF FOR A MOMENT AND THINK WHO CREATED YOU?how can such a thing be created for the first time on it,s own.If you eat delicious food ,you always say it was cooked good but can the food be cooked by itself? nothing can come into existence without a creator ,so who do you think created you and this beautiful world which has a fixed system of day and night?

[1GodOnlyOne]

You have failed to provide evidence for your silly personal belief that God could have ever been "thwarted."

[madba11er1on1]

I agree with voldmero these failures are not gods failures but mans. To have failed you must have a goal. Therefore if your goal is not complete and has no way of being completed then you have failed. But that is not so. To say god has failed you have to know what his goal is, and take into the acc that he gives us a choice. He may want us to do a certain thing that would work perfectly, but because of our free will we may not do as he asks of us and his plan be ruined because of us

[voldmerot]

These failures are all man's failures. But that is not all. They are also God's failures. Man was created in God's own image. The parent is accountable for the child. No matter how many times a child fails his father, the father can never hate him. That is why it was God who payed the price for the sins of mankind. Those who hold on to their lives will lose it, but those who don't will keep it.

[emilovesyouxp]

He created people and gave them the responsibility of taking care of themselves and the earth. He gives us free will, so they are the mistakes of the humans.

[suckmyazzz]

god allow that to happen because he was telling everyone that,that was going to do that you should find someone who can revealed the treasure hidden in the bible you think that if you had some treasure and you leave a map would you make it easy just so any idiot would find it , im very sure that you would make hard enough,but hard enough so that if someone was really looking for that treasure that person would really find it but is someone was just trying to spoil it they would get confused

[humanistheart]

@Bepps100 In the biblical fiction, of course we know as fact that the hebrews were never in egypt in mass, let alone in slavery. LOL.