budaatum:

Hold on! Big bang explosion? God? "Nothing comes from nothing"?

Sounds like you are asking us to argue about your beliefs, to me. Or has anyone told you they believe any of those things you listed?

Ihedinobi3:
Hello.

I am not sure what your own attitude to these matters is but I will try to answer without prejudice.

Because of your allusion to the Garden of Eden and to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, I assume that you are interrogating the Bible on this. I am a Christian, a committed follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, so I will answer you as one who believes the Bible in toto.

First of all, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was not evil at all. God never creates evil. He always creates perfection. And the tree was also good. The only evil was man's disobedience in eating it contrary to God's explicit command that he shouldn't.

That tree is why the human race still exists today in spite of the corruption of our bodies with sin. It provided the human race with an expanded conscience which is an ability to identify good and evil in Satan's very complex system of moral pitfalls that he wove to ensnare as many of Adam's descendants as possible.

While Adam and Eve lived in the Garden, they did not need an expanded conscience because they were created holy like the angels earlier. But possession of a free will always means that the possessor can change their moral leaning. And man changed from being holy to being sinful when he decided to disobey God and eat the fruit. But, as I said, eating the fruit still provided us with a conscience that has helped the human race survive without destroying itself in thousands of years now.

Why did God create the tree at all? Because God wanted man to make a choice about Him. He did not want man to serve Him by force or default. That is, man had to both be free to choose whether to love God and submit to Him or not and to have the opportunity to choose not to love Him and submit to Him if he decided that he didn't want to. Without the tree in the Garden, man may have had free will but no opportunity to exercise it. But we had the tree and Adam made the choice.

So, God did not do anything wrong to us in that instance.

Since Adam made that choice, God sent the Lord Jesus Christ to give all of humanity a way back to Him. That is consistent with all His earlier good acts of mercy and love toward us. If anyone believes in the Lord Jesus, then their sins are no longer counted against them and they are saved and if they continue to believe until they leave this world, they will spend eternity with the Lord God and all of His Family.

That, to me, is the best news ever. I hope you find it to be the same for you as well.

BuddhaPalm:
Polarity I guess.

Without opposites, there won’t be a frame of reference.

If there’s only one state, then God will be bored.

Up-down, good-bad, happy-sad, positive-negative, alive-dead...

Boom!

Drama.

If there’s just one state, then the earth might as well be formless, dark and void.

Chidany:


YOU ARE STILL ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS BECAUSE YOU HAVE REFUSED TO READ AND STUDY YOUR BIBLE...

Those questions are not new. They are usually questions from those ignorant of Bible/spiritual information... Nevertheless, I will give you some answers but first let me correct a wrong assumption... You said "Btw those examples you gave could have easily predicted by anyone". NO! NOBODY ELSE APART FROM JESUS AND THE BIBLE MADE THOSE ACCURATE PREDICTIONS! WHY? BECAUSE IT WASN'T EASY! MOHAMMED DIDN'T. NO OTHER HOLY BOOK HAS BEEN ACCURATE AND CORRECT IN PREDICTING HISTORY AS THE BIBLE...IF IT IS EASY, WHERE ARE YOUR OWN PREDICTIONS OF WORLD HISTORY?

Now, concerning God. You need to understand that he is not in your class... He is a being that knows no impossibility... He is infinitely good but bound by his covenant... He has revealed himself through his Son Jesus Christ... But that does not mean he cannot reveal himself through a woman...You have not even fully understood yourself, and you think you can fully understand your maker?

Uhmm... We are still waiting for the answers to the above questions. And since you have understood yourself, I'm certain you have (at least) understood your maker.
And don't even bring Jesus. For I would have to ask Jesus of which Christian denomination? This is when you really see the stupidity of religion. Logic is one and it therefore implies one conclusion. Jesus is one, but which one?
As I have said, we are all listening for your answers to the above questions.

jesusjnr:
If there is another kind of prophecy you seek, well you are in the wrong place, because I can't lie and say something which God had not commanded to say, but I can prophesy about things that are bound to happen, when people think the otherwise.

Such as "the wicked shall not see God", now can I get an amen from you? Thought so.

jesusjnr:
Any nairalander that doesn't change, shall remain the same in the new year!

And the whole nairalanders shall say, AMEN!!!!!!!!

jesusjnr:
Any nairalander that doesn't change, shall remain the same in the new year!

And the whole nairalanders shall say, AMEN!!!!!!!!

jesusjnr:
The difference is God