Who can explain this?

[jamsmom]

If God is ominpotent (all-knowing) then why since HE knew want choices we would make, did he create us anyway?

As a mom, if I knew ahead of time a child would have a painful, etc life...I would not want to put a child into that situation.

So, Why did Gid choose that with us, His children?

 

[browneyes]

I believe within the first 4 words in your first sentence (God is ominpotent ) is where you should be searching for this answer.

 

[Lisa L from MI]

I think "we" kinda choose our choices....don't we????

 

[jfulcer]

Just don't knock on the Wall glass. It makes God think we're trying to break out of his experiment.

 

[treesinger]

The answer...

God knows all of our possible paths. He knows every decision that we might make and the conseuqences of those decisions. By listening to Him, he helps guide you to the right choices or can steer you back onto the better path if you make bad decisions.

God gave us free will so that we would learn to follow Him on our own. He wants us to seek His voice and hear Him. Yet, even if we do not hear Him, or even if we choose not to hear Him, he will still speak to us to help us get back on the right track.

So, God does not know everything we will do, but everything we could do. He allows us to choose which way we go.

Think of it as a "Choose your own Adventure" book!

 

[chadfromdallas]

oh god....

Life without him seems to be so simple

If God is ominpotent (all-knowing) then why since HE knew what choices we would make, did he create us anyway?

Boredom probably

 

[Bobbles]

I think we can do anything we want and say "It's God's will" to justify it.

Perhaps we use "God" as a crutch.

I know I am totally confused by "God".

 

[heart4pooh]

My understanding is that God is love and that out of love he created the universe (because He could?) and life on it. We were created to express love back to our creator. What else we choose to do is our business. Personally the greatest feeling I have ever had was when "I" created life and gave birth to my children. I can see how if God could do so also, why he'd choose to!!! In all of nature there is pain and death and rebirth and compassion and love. Not just with humans. Part of our choice is to choose our perspective. Is life painful with some good things mixed in? or is it full of love and joy with some pain and suffering mixed in? I choose the latter and turn to my creator for the strength to get through the horrible times. Trust me I could write a book on pain and suffering first hand. But, I choose to turn to God in pain and with Joy. It works better for me. I do have a list of questions I'd like answered, like why do children suffer, but I think when I get to Heaven I'm going to drop my list and say "Never mind".

 

[dg39]

I try never to discuss religion, but, "who can explain this" tempts me to say that there is no explanation. This is where faith and belief comes into play.

 

[jipsy]

Originally posted by jamsmom
If God is ominpotent (all-knowing) then why since HE knew want choices we would make, did he create us anyway?

As a mom, if I knew ahead of time a child would have a painful, etc life...I would not want to put a child into that situation.

So, Why did Gid choose that with us, His children?

Ask God.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I think if you ask the kid with the 'painful life' if they would have rather had not been born, I think the %age would be high toward 'no'.

I have to say I like your analogy heart4pooh. I had never thought of that before. Very good!

 

[Viking]

Originally posted by Bobbles
I think we can do anything we want and say "It's God's will" to justify it.

Perhaps we use "God" as a crutch.

I know I am totally confused by "God".

Strike 'Perhaps'

 

[diznygirl]

I agree with heart4pooh - why do we have children if we know they will have free will and not listen to us, their creators? Because we have love to give, and they give us love. God loves us and wants us to love Him.

That's the short answer, and Faith is accepting that and not asking any more "why?"



Except for that "why do children suffer?" part. I'm still working on that......

 

[doubletrouble_vb]

Ummmm...who said God is omnipotent?

 

[VampHeartless]

My friends and I at work have had much discussion about this over night shifts...we have arrived at the following conclusion...

God is playing one giant SIMS game.

You see...sometimes he likes to make the Sim happy and give promotions and a hot wife like Bella Goth...

And sometimes he just wants to see what happens when he walls Bob Newbie up long enough that he can't use the bathroom and wet himself...

Haven't you ever had your sim light the house on fire, just to see what it looks like?

That's what I think God's up too...one giant Sims game.

 

[delilah]

Omnipotent means all powerful; omniscent means all knowing. God is both. As a parent tries to guide their children to make right choices, God tries to guide us. He gives us every opportunity to reform the bad choices we make. In a way, we are all omniscent and omnipotent to our small children, and as they get older, they gradually get to make their own choices. Sometimes, by observing nature, we can answer our own questions about why bad things happen. When an owl captures a mouse or a lion an antelope, he is not "evil". He is trying to survive. We are all trying to survive, and to make our lives the best they can be (I presume).

 

[jfulcer]

If God is Love...


And Love is Blind...


And further, we know Ray Charles is Blind....


Does that make Ray Charles God?

 

[treesinger]

For someone on the outside looking in, it may look like we're using a crutch. But the view from inside this box is different. I see myself as very free, freer than the others who are still searching and leaning on their own crutches.

Ray Charles is not God, but man, can that man make some good music!

 

[treesinger]

Originally posted by diznygirl
I agree with heart4pooh - why do we have children if we know they will have free will and not listen to us, their creators? Because we have love to give, and they give us love. God loves us and wants us to love Him.

That's the short answer, and Faith is accepting that and not asking any more "why?"



Except for that "why do children suffer?" part. I'm still working on that......

Children suffer because adults responsible for them make poor decisions. Sometimes it is because there are some people who have turned from goodness and do not seek God's voice and do despicable things to children.

Children rarely suffer from an indiscernable cause. It can almost always be traced to bad decisions that adults make or just plain evil actions.

 

[jfulcer]

Originally posted by treesinger
Children rarely suffer from an indiscernable cause. It can almost always be traced to bad decisions that adults make or just plain evil actions.

Childhood Luekemia?
Juvenille Diabetes?
Cancer?

What 'adult' can you trace that back to? I think the poster is more trying to wonder is why God, in his infinite wisdom would choose to hurt a child with something beyond our control.

IMHO, we are all children of God (whether it be my God or your God) and there is a Plan. Some of us get called home earlier than others. A child called home at 11 years old is no less sad to me than a child called home at 45 years old. They needed a perfect angel, and that 'child' was chosen.