Question:
Should HUMANS demand an apology from GOD?
2011-01-15 21:05:34 UTC
God created everything that is.

God created Adam & Eve and the Garden of Eden.

God created Satan. Sin. Temptation. Lust. Desire. et. al.

God created Adam & Eve as innocents not aware of evil or temptation. Yet he then ALLOWED Satan to enter into the Garden and Tempt Adam & Eve.

When he allowed this, God ALREADY KNEW that Adam & Eve would fail. because:

1. they had no knowledge of evil. so they were trusting of everything. (including the serpent)
2. he was God he knows all.

So now all of Humanity requires repentance and saving for a sin that GOD set them up to commit.

He rigged the whole game!!!!

Should we demand an apology for being tricked like this?
Nineteen answers:
Rico Toasterman JPA
2011-01-15 21:07:43 UTC
No! We should thank God for forcing us to accept the burden of free will, just as the the thirty-five year old, trekkie kid should thank his parents for kicking him out the basement and forcing him to start living a real life.
kroell
2016-10-28 13:33:59 UTC
I too refuse to study all that, yet God does no longer ask for forgiveness for something, nor does he want to! each and every of the undesirable stuff in life might want to be traced decrease back, finally, to guy's separation from God, and the loose can we received as a effect.
2011-01-15 21:42:08 UTC
No. And here's why (and I don't want what I have to say some out arrogant or judgmental or anything, I say this as sincerely has possible).



Let's go in order.



Yes, God created everything. Yay, we have that covered hahaha :)



God created Adam and Eve (which I hope you don't think were actually like... one man one woman.. they represent all human beings... everything during the biblical times was written in parables...) and yes, he created the Garden of Eden (which is a little bigger than the average garden.. again, parable)



Not let's move on to 'God creating sin'. What is sin? It's not a physical anything. Sin is nothing other that seperation from God (this is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to understand before you read the rest of what I have to say). Lust, greed, pride, murder, lying, these are sinful acts. They are not sin, they are sinFUL because they seperate you from God. God did not create these things. People discovered them via Satan (who is the one who tempts people. Again, tempation is not a physical thing that God created, it's an act that Satan does) What is Satan? A fallen angel. What this means is that Satan is Evil, because he is FALLEN from God's grasp. Is Satan himself a parable? You decide because frankley, I'm not too sure myself I've never really thought it about :) Satan is filled with sin and is COMPLETELY seperated from God= he's Evil, and not good (God only created what he saw as good- see Genesis)



All things God created were good. They were good and connected with him, so they had no knowledge of the sinful things that would seperate themselves from him. Because the thing is that we were made by God and therefore were made FOR God. THis means we were not made for sin and to be any part of the sinful acts that would call us away from God. (by the way, being tempted is not a sin. Acting on the tempation is when a person sins. Everyone's tempted. Even Jesus was tempted and he was without sin throughout his life (meaning he had full connection with God because he had no seperation... which is why he is the son of God. No seperation means that God is so affluent in him that he is everything God is- he is in his image)). God gave man free will because he loves us. He did not want to have control over every single thought and desire that we had. So he told man not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge (which is not an apple tree for God's sake!! It's a parable for having the knowledge of sinful acts!!) But, sadly, curiousity kills the cat, so human learned what the acts were and therefore knew how to seperate themselves from God.



God did not know that they would fail, though it may seem he would, he did not...

1. Man was innocent, but God told them what not to do. He said, 'you will die', but they did it anyway so.... :(

2) Yes, he is God and he knows all, but I cannot say that God knows the future. What God does know is the outcome to every choice that man will make. But because of man's free will, God cannot say what will happen until man makes his choice. God knew what would happen if man learned of sin, but if man acted upon the temptation in front of him, that was not something God would know for sure. If God knew exactly every single little thing that was to be sure to happen, we would technically not have the free will we were in actuality blessed with....



Now lastly, we talk about repentence. This boils down to what God really wants with us. He's our Father. He is in LOVE with us, his children. The only thing God wants from us is to have a personal relationship with him and to love everyone. To restore ourselves to the relationship with him that we were made for. He made us, so we were made to be with him. He's not an angry, lightning-bearing, Lord of the Universe who demands us to kneel on rice and whip ourselves into getting his forgiveness. Heck no!!!! Repentence is giving ourselves over to him, over to Jesus as well, who is our King because he is able to lead us with the perfect example of what a relationship with God should really be, and giving up the things that seperate us from him.



That's it. He didn't set us up for failure. He made us for being with him, and that's something we've lost and are trying to gain through Jesus.
2011-01-15 21:10:15 UTC
Other way around.

God has something called free will, meaning satan CHOSE to be evil and wasn't created evil.

Knowing all doesn't mean you caused the problem.

Adam and Eve CHOSE to fail.



Imagine if we couldn't chose and God MADE us not able to be tempted.
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2011-01-15 21:19:22 UTC
Again, if God interfered with our free will, we would only worship Him out of fear. Satin forced his hand. Truly, ask and it shall be given you, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened to you. For anyone who asks will receive, who among you if your child asked for bread would you give them a stone, if they asked for fish would you give them a snake. You as evil as you are know how to give good things to those you love, how much more would your God in heaven give good things to you.
Cyn
2011-01-15 21:14:23 UTC
I've thought the same thing. The answer, if God exists he wants us to be indebted to him. It's the loop hole of free will. Yeah sure we can do what we want but if we don't want to go to hell then we'll do exactly what God wants.



Why would he do this? I don't know. Why the hell would he create mutants (animal heads but human bodies) to stand in his throne room and do nothing but praise him for all of time? Answer mine and you'll answer yours.
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2011-01-15 21:10:09 UTC
Instead of demanding an apology. Realize how right you are and how this flaws the Bible and get on with your own beliefs. Good point btw.
2011-01-15 21:09:05 UTC
I say we file a class-action lawsuit against both God and Satan!
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2011-01-15 21:10:26 UTC
I didn't ask for an apology from humpty dumpty when he fell off the wall, so why should I ask for an apology from the sky pixie ummm.... I mean God. They're both fairy tales.
2011-01-15 21:13:14 UTC
You make many false assumption, but hypothetically speaking, in any decently run universe this guy would have been out on his all-powerful @ss a long time ago.
2011-01-15 21:10:46 UTC
God doesn't forsake the people, the people forsake God!



If he doesn't exist, who else can we blame? Perhaps those earthly men with freewill.
2011-01-15 21:07:01 UTC
Demand an apology from a tree. Trees actually exist.
helper725
2011-01-15 21:07:34 UTC
We don't owe God anything. It is highly irreverent to demand something from the Almighty Creator.
2011-01-15 21:09:38 UTC
Should you demand a apology from your mom?
Silver †Dragon†
2011-01-15 21:07:36 UTC
no we should apologize to each other for actually believing in a god in the first place



have a nice day.
2011-01-15 21:10:06 UTC
He'll remember you asked this question.

So be prepared to explain yourself at Judgement Day.
2011-01-15 21:10:04 UTC
No, because all that buy-bull nonsense is fabricated.
2011-01-15 21:09:42 UTC
If god was real, yes.
2011-01-15 21:06:14 UTC
Damnit I lost the game.


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