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Default Re: The Garden of Eden: Proof of God's Love and Mercy - 09-21-2008, 04:47 PM

I received a follow-up question from the same seeker.

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(”God cannot create sin, for it is an contradiction of His very nature.” Friend, no true statement ever begins with the words “God cannot...”. There is nothing that God cannot do. Perhaps if you phrased it as “God would not create sin, ...”. However, even then, the statement is still false. God created everything that exists. Man can’t create. The Devil can’t create. Only God can create. If something exists, it can only be because God created it. Isaiah 45 tells us as much:)


God cannot lie, this also according to scripture. God doesn’t temp man in any manner. It is Satan that tempts. When God allows Satan to tempt, this is to prove weather a man is true to his belief and faith in God.
The biggest thing that I have a problem with is that you do not offer Biblical passages to support your interpretation. Give me Bible for this statement. “God created us to be vile, wretched, foul, evil people..” I am trying to understand why you say the things you do.
Tit 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Num 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?


(“God created us to be vile, wretched, foul, evil people that deserve much worse than to be tormented and tortured for all of eternity.”)
What about Job? Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Job 1:8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?


(But we are useless to the Lord as long as we remain in opposition to Him.) (Some demon-worshiping Atheist scum might read all of this and then be arrogant enough to question God.) These words will create enemies of the Cross and not bring them into a state of mind that they are willing to listen to the truth. Jesus taught us not to intreat men as enemies but as brothers.
Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Eph 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Mat 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Eph 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
“corrupt communication” To debase or render impure, by alterations or innovations; as, to corrupt language.
Eph 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
I replied with this answer:


Hello Tony,

Before I address your comments, let me ask you a question. Do you believe that God knew ahead of time, whether or not Adam and Eve would eat from the forbidden tree? The first time I heard ever this story as a child, when we got to the end of the second chapter, I knew that they were going to eat from the tree. God is a whole lot smarter than I am, so I have to expect that He knew as well.

"The biggest thing that I have a problem with is that you do not offer Biblical passages to support your interpretation. Give me Bible for this statement. “God created us to be vile, wretched, foul, evil people..” I am trying to understand why you say the things you do."
First I'll give you the logical proof, then I'll back it up with the Biblical proof. If you agree that that God had any control over His process of creation, and if you agree that God knew ahead of time that Adam and Eve would eat the forbidden fruit, then it necessarily implies that He intended for them to eat from the tree.

Again, my intelligence is not even a measurable fraction of God's intelligence. So, if I can think of ways in which creation could have been different enough so that Adam and Eve would have been able to resist the temptation without affecting their free will, then certainly God could. He could have created the world differently, but He didn't. He knew that if He created the world in the way He did, that Adam and Eve would succumb to the temptation. You may take this as if I'm judging God, but let me assure you that I am not. God saw everything that He had made, and, behold it was very good. With the utmost humility, I have to say that I agree.

The point of my sermon was this. Imagine that God had created Adam and Eve with a better ability to resist the temptation of the forbidden fruit, or had made the serpent less subtil, or hadn't made the fruit so attractive, or hadn't made Eve so gullible, etc, and sin never entered the world.

If sin had never entered the world, then how would we know or understand God's Amazing Grace? It is the process of going through rebellion and depravity, followed redemption and salvation through Jesus Christ, that allows us to know and understand God's Amazing Grace. Praise God, the Lord is so Good!

Now for the Biblical proof.
Gen 8:21 the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth
-- we are born sinners
Isa 64:6 we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags
-- we are not capable of doing anything good (without God's help, that is)
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
-- Sin comes from within, as part of our nature.

"God cannot lie, this also according to scripture."
When the Bible says that God cannot lie, it doesn't mean He is incapable of lying or that there is some sort of limitation on what God can or cannot do. God can do anything. But as John 1:1 tells us, God is his Word. God's Word makes up the very fabric of reality. So if God says something, it is automatically true. That's why God "cannot" lie.

"It is Satan that tempts. When God allows Satan to tempt, this is to prove weather a man is true to his belief and faith in God."
Of course. I believe that must be why God created Satan in the first place.

"What about Job?"
Rom 3:10-11 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

The first chapter of Job refers to Job as righteous, and compared to other men, he was righteous. We learn later in the book how pitiful man's righteousness is compared to God's standards. God explains to Job exactly what that means. Finally, Job understands, sees himself as God sees him, and says:

Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Everything that Job experienced at the hands of Satan are nothing compared to what he, you, I, and everyone else all deserve, which is an eternity of torment in Hell. I praise Jesus every day for taking my sin away from me, so that I can be fit to be in the presence of God when I am called home. We deserve eternity in Hell for the commission of a single sin, and I know I've sinned more than once.

"These words will create enemies of the Cross and not bring them into a state of mind that they are willing to listen to the truth. Jesus taught us not to intreat men as enemies but as brothers."
Friend, I do not treat folks as enemies, I do love sinners, I do forgive those who mistreat me, and I do not preach in anger. Sometimes I might use strong language, as Jesus did when he addressed the Pharisees, to wake up a sleeping sinner, who doesn't even know about the danger he's in -- but that is in love.

Mat 5:37 is about what to do when asked to swear an oath.

God bless you, Tony.

Pastor Billy-Reuben


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