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Thursday, October 20, 2005
"If God knew that Adam & Eve were going to sin, why didn't He stop them?"
Simple Foreknowledge
You mean change what He foreknows? But, in that case, how come God didn't foresee Himself intervening?
Calvinist-Augustinian
Since when did God's actions DEPEND on His foreknowledge? He foresees whatever He's determined. The question is flawed.
Augustine / Luther (I forgot who)
He was too busy making hell for people who asks such questions....
Open Theism
He didn't know, silly. Next question?
Standard Evangelicalism
All together now: GOD LETS BAD STUFF HAPPEN FOR REASONS OF HIS OWN - don't ask what these are!
Process Theology
He couldn't stop them. Which part of "God-works-ONLY-via-persuasion" don't you understand?
"Eternal Now" Theology
God is Timeless, timeless, timeLESS. That...err...means God is NOT - repeat, NOT! - 'within' time. Your question assumes He 'sorta' is.
Post-Colonialism
He was looking for a more Asian-flavoured approach.
Christian Hedonism
He didn't take pleasure in that decision. But even if He did, Soli Del Gloria!
Open Theism, II
He still doesn't know why...
Messy Christian
I'm confused. I know it's a question which bothers many people, but somehow I don't think God meant for us to get definitive answers on issues like this. I'd like to think that God has good reasons for not 'stopping' Adam & Eve, but I also feel He has even better reasons for not wanting us to know for sure...
Open Theism, III
Wait a minute! Are you asking if God knew that "Adam & Eve may sin" or "Adam & Eve will sin"? Huuuuge world of difference, compadre!
Emergent Network
That idea didn't resonate with Him.
Emergent Network, II
He preferred a more authentic conversational approach.
LKJ
This is militant, anti-Calvinist, deconstructionist crap! True servants of Christ shouldn't waste time raising issues which implicitly put God in the dock!
Kia Meng
There are problems. There are mysteries. And there is God.
Dave Chang
Hehe...I wonder what the question is trying to imply...are we concerned about God's justice?...hehe...I'm not sure, but do you think Man has the right to doubt God?...hehe...
Derrida
He tried, but this solution got lost in the trace.
Nietzsche
He did. We've been lied to.
Foucault
This question does violence to secular humanism and atheistic liberty. Come to think of it, it also oppresses snakes, trees, fruit, women's right to act first, human nakedness, the right to remain silent, and the freedom to deny sin's existence!
Calvinism, II
For the umpteenth time: it's all about glory! If the Devil showed up as a snake, it's for God's glory; if the snake deceived humanity, it's for His glory; if humanity denied their sin, well that's also for His glory! Whatever happened or happens is for God's glory -- get the picture?!
Inclusivism
He was looking for alternative pathways.
Universalism
Why should He? It's not gonna matter in the end anyway.
Alwyn
He was seeking to fully empathize and identify with their motives, perspectives and reasons for wanting to disobey Him.
Alwyn, II
He wanted it to be a relationally constructed decision/outcome. And stopping sin wasn't "it".
Derrida
He didn't know what 'stopping sin' referred to.
Sivin Kit
Just random thoughts here...but I think God goes for redemptive, as opposed to merely preventive, solutions.
Intelligent Design
He was going for a more irreducibly complex solution.
Brian McLaren
Whilst such questions are enjoyable, and occasionally yield great flashes of insight, perhaps the church has for too long juxtaposed abstract speculation with rigid dogmatism, and it's my concern that -
DB
He had a better idea. 'Nuff said.
Barney
He was using His imagination. Didn't want just anything to happen. It ain't a land of make-belief, you know...
Open Theism, IV
God knew that "Adam & Eve MAY sin" which logically implies that He also knew that, "Adam & Even MAY NOT sin". Confused yet?
Rafidah Aziz
I can assure you whatever He did was done properly, according to procedure and no one benefited unfairly from everything.
Tun Dr. Mahathir
He didn't authorize that decision.
Posted at 03:28 pm by alwynlau
 | Posted by Philip Lee @ 10/31/2006 10:44 PM PST | | | God wanted to neutralise sin, manifest His Love, create Hope, shame the devil, delight in humour at the willingness of man. | |
| Posted by Drakos69 @ 10/29/2005 05:24 PM PDT | | | God gave us the ability to know right from wrong, good vs evil, to make choices. He knows the path of our heart. He wants us, his children, to choose to follow him, not be forced to. He grieves when we don't follow Him. He is an AWESOME, mericful and gracious GOD. | |
| Posted by Sarah @ 10/25/2005 04:08 AM PDT | | | It's because He wanted to give us the decision of coming back to Him. Us meaning all of mankind. You see, we can never fully be called God's Child until we make the decision ourselves to turn back to Him, to WANT to belong to Him. and thats when the God and humankind relationships begins. After all, thats what Christianity is, a relationship with our Creator, not a ritualistic religion full of do's and don't's. =) | |
| Posted by Deryk @ 10/23/2005 12:36 AM PDT | | | Christian Physicist: He is busy designing Alpha Centauri. | |
| Posted by sk @ 10/22/2005 05:36 AM PDT | | You forgot the <b>Pentecostal</b> answer to this question:
"God allowed them to sin so that I could spend twenty years of my life making altar calls from the pulpit. Now, every eye close, every head bow..." | |
| Posted by ChooThomas @ 10/21/2005 08:35 PM PDT | | Choo Thomas,
It wasn't God's will, God wanna prosper you, it was the snake's fault, Adam were properly warned. It wasn't God's will, God wanna prosper you. Hallelujah!
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| Posted by Alwyn @ 10/21/2005 04:03 PM PDT | | yk ~ i anticipate some non-amusement...but then again even my own views weren't spared (haha), so..
derek ~ hey i didn't know you were into this stuff! u should write more!
sk ~ all i know is that i probably wasn't a durian (grin)
alpha ~ impressions, hey I didn't think of that way...but yeah I guess do do them! | |
| Posted by alpha @ 10/21/2005 01:51 PM PDT | | | I recognise the voices! didn't know you did impressions : ). | |
| Posted by sk @ 10/21/2005 12:10 PM PDT | | | You think it was an apple, you reckon? If believing it was an apple doesn't make a person less evangelical, does believing it was NOT an apple make a person more liberal? | |
| Posted by Derek L. @ 10/20/2005 05:43 PM PDT | | | Reality is an ever expanding network of alternate pathways, each of which forks off multiple paths which divide in turn. He only didn't interfere in our current reality. In an alternate reality, He intervened. In yet another reality, He decided against creating Eve. And in yet another reality... | |
| Posted by Yew Khuen @ 10/20/2005 05:22 PM PDT | | | Hey Al... outdone yourself again! Laugh-out-loud funny. Tho some might not be so amused! I need to return a couple of your spy books... | |
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