05/29/2020
Here is a question someone had asked me followed by my answer.
Question: “Did God, who is all knowing set us up for failure?”
Answer: “We have to understand that God is not human. He is not like us and does not think like us. We get way to far in thinking God is this person and we basically make Him into a robot. We can’t bring God down to our level of knowledge nor think like we do towards other people. God is all knowing, all loving, all in all. He is the creator and we are people who need a creator. God saw that His creation was good but evil still intervened. We sinned against God in a way that He who is all knowing and just couldn’t snap a finger and recreate us. He new that he needed to cleanse us of all unrighteousness but He had no other way of doing so. God who is loving and perfect and graceful gave His one and only Son to voluntarily sacrifice Himself for us to be reconciled with a just God who couldn’t let us get away from His wrath. Jesus took and bared a painful death so that we may be one with God in heaven. I don’t see that God set us up for failure, but that God set us up for success in having eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Only if we acknowledge that we need a savior.”