Questions

I was a born-again Christian from 1979 til my divorce. During that time I had some questions. Nobody has been able to answer them. I still have these questions. Here they are.

We believe in an omniscient, omnipotent, loving God, right? God knows the end from the beginning. He knew when he created Lucifer that one day Lucifer would sin and become Satan. He knew when he created Adam and Eve that they would sin too and create the necessity of a redeeming Savior so all humans won't end up in hell but some will be saved for Heaven. Right?

He has all power and all knowledge. So if he knew all things that would happen, why did he make the devil? Why did he plan things so that humans living in the present year would be going through all kinds of suffering due to Adam and Eve's fall due to the devil who used to be Lucifer?

What is the point of this whole scenario? Is God trying to entertain himself? How merciful is it to create a situation where a person must suffer and then God comes along and saves the person from a situation that God was the root cause of?

If God knew that Lucifer would fall, why did he make him? Why not have skipped Lucifer and stuck to angels he knew would remain faithful? Did God need all this conflict? Was He bored with total obedience from his angels and did he need to create somebody who would stand up to him? Is this why he wanted to show forth his glory?

Is the whole thing God showing off to the angels? What is the point?

God is ultimately responsible for all the suffering and sin that exists because he created Lucifer and Lucifer became Satan and got Adam and Eve to sin and bring sin into the perfect world God created. So why did God bother to create us if he knew all these bad things would come of it?

Are we just a means to God's self-expression? I resent being in situations that God could have prevented had he decided to create slightly differently. I am in His game and I don't like playing it.

What can you tell me? Please don't give me pat answers or tell me that God's ways are higher than my ways and his thoughts are not my thoughts. That's a biblical cop-out. Maybe you can't answer this. I hope you will try.

Send your answer to these questions to tinarock@aol.com.

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