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If God is all, if all things are possible in Gods world, isn't God evil too? Our limited mortal definition of evil, anyway. If God is everything, then He must be all that I hate as well as all that I love. Right?
Thank You for the awesome answers. Made me think. God is a just God, all I remember from reading the Bible is, God is a jealous God.
marvin said that God can not lie. We are made in the image (like a mirror) of God. How could we be capable of anything if He is not capable of the same thing? He is our creator/inventor, every part of us was created by God wasn't it? Our human selves are capable of evil.
Perhaps, through the eyes of God, no act is evil, just a choice.
Maybe it slips and squirms during definition through our darkened glass, because even though God is everything, we are not able to conceive of everything, yet. For instance, what of the child who climbs on the roof, but has never been told not to. What of the children who have no parents, or have parents who are "absent?" What happens to the person who lives in the Amazon and never hears about Jesus?
Where can I find the quotation that, "God can not see our sins?"
God see what are we doing even it is good or bad. Even what is in our heart God can see it.
You are talking about the original sin, in the garden of Eden. God created the heavens and the earth, all of it. Didn't he create the serpent? How did the snake speak to Eve if not given words, by God?
I believe the serpent is symbolic like so many other things in the bible.
Thank You for the awesome answers. Made me think. God is a just God, all I remember from reading the Bible is, God is a jealous God.
Where can I find the quotation that, "God can not see our sins?"
Just now getting back with you on your post. In researching the scriptures, I find references to God not looking on sin. I tend to study the New Testament more than the old although the New is a fulfillment of the old. In Habakkuk 1:13 talking about God, it says, "You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness...." I always encourage people to read the whole chapter when a verse has been mentioned, to get the meaning of it in context to the rest of the chapter. I do not like to take one verse and built a whole area of belief on that one scripture because all the scriptures work together, fitly joined together. Sometimes, it takes reading the whole book of the Bible I am researching or even reading from other books in the Bible that are touching on the same subject, to get the fullness of the meaning.
When Jesus came to this earth and was crucified to provide a way of salvation, through the shedding of His blood and our faith in what He did for us, He took on all the sins of the world. In Matthew 27:46 we see God Himself turning away from His beloved Son who is bearing the sin of the world. Jesus is bearing man's judgment, not only the judgment of death but also the judgment of separation from God. At that moment, Jesus is experiencing the darkest moment of His life and He bore it for us.
God is the Holy One, and though He knows all about evil and wickedness, He is not in any way tainted with it. He is light and in Him is no darkness at all: darkness in the sense of error (intellectual) and sin (moral).
Romans 8:34 says Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yet rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. verses 35 through 39 continue stating that once we receive Jesus in our hearts and receive this free gift of salvation nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I hope this helped in your request for a quote regarding this subject. There may be other passages that touch on this subject but these are what I had for you tonight. Blessings to you in your quest for knowledge.
We never can learn enough. Sometimes, the more I read and learn, the more I realize that I know very little. But this one thing I do know without a doubt in my mind is that when I asked Jesus Christ to forgive me my sins and come into my life to be my Lord and Savior, I became a new creation in Christ. I do make mistakes and still sin but I know I just have to ask forgiveness and start fresh again, I know for sure where I will spend eternity and that gives me tremendous peace as I go through some of life's trials. As far as I can tell by what I read, God doesn't promise us an easy journey but a safe arrival and He does promise He will never leave us nor forsake us as we go through dark times. Sometimes, those dark times come from bad choices we make and sometimes they come just because we live in a fallen world, other times dark times come and cause us to seek answers. I don't believe God ever causes bad things to happen to us. He allows it, in that He does not always step in and stop it but He does give us the strength to go through it, the grace to accept where we are in life and the peace in our heart to know it will not always be this way and sometimes by what we go through, we are much more able to help others who are going through bad times. I don't like to go through bad times but I have been through some really tough situations but because of it, I have been able to help and encourage others.
What happens to the person who lives in the Amazon and never hears about Jesus?
The JWs seem to have it covered. It has been reported that criminal fugitives who go into hiding in the vast Australian outback are tracked down easier by JWs than by the police! Also in the remotest parts of Borneo where there are thick rainforests, you guessed it, the people are receiving the 'good news'.
You asked what about the person who may not hear about Jesus?
I have been taught, and I do beleive, that we all will be exposed to Jesus, and we all will
either choose to accept in our heart or not.
Now, if that is not true, then, I beleive that God is a loving God and will bring them into his loving arms as much as those who have heard of Jesus and accepts Him.
Sadly, sick children pass on sometimes, without being able to understand or be introduced Jesus, and for sure, I beleive, they now lay in the loving arms of our Father.
As a saved sinner I am saved, and can be assured, no matter how many mistakes I make that I will rest eternally in heaven. I then go out into the world and experience evil. Getting through tough times makes me stronger and able to help others. It's all out of my hands, even if I read and study till I die.
Or,
as a creature born on this earth, I can create. I have the freedom to be either good or evil. Everything that is bad which happens to us, we chose. We frequently do not follow the will of God, but he always makes it possible for us to follow our own will. Even if we decide to murder others.
Which to choose? Each promises freedom.
I read somewhere that God is the Alpha and the Omega, but we are everything in between. God cannot experience things, except through us. If that is true, then we truly are part of God, an integral and needed part. Whether God is evil doesn't matter because he experiences evil through us.
If the "symbolic" serpent who spoke to Eve is only a symbol for something else, what is it a symbol of? And who, or what created this symbol and taught it how to speak? What did it symbolically teach Eve? Before the conversation, both Adam and Eve had no shame and felt a part of God.
If this world is indeed fallen, does that mean that newborn babies are fallen the moment they come screaming into this world? Maybe that is part of the scream, why they sleep so much.
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