Originally posted by whodey
One thing is for certain and that is if God wanted to "prove" himself he would if he really exists, no? However, he has proved himself to man before and what did it get him? Adam and Eve knew he existed and then sinned. The children of Israel knew he existed and then built a golden calf to worship instead. God looks at the heart of man and this is why I t ...[text shortened]... Christ is who I want to be rather than someone I feel compelled against my will to be like.
You are looking at the situation from "damage control" point of view. God created humans, who he found to be naughty later. He then went to such an extent of telling them to be good; but failing this went on to kill them off. He event went to the extent of sending his own son to save us all (according to the bible).
But this makes no sense. God is supposed to be perfect. He knows everything and he can do anything. He should have created only good people in the first place. No criminals, no serial killers, no rapists. We would be free from all these animals. He knew from the very beginning that Adam and Eve were going to fail; he knew that Hitler was going to be a mass murderer; he knew so many bad things long before they happened, and yet he continued creating them all. And then after he created all these animals, he took actions which he said was for our own good. And while pursuing this 'cleansing' of the world from such bad people, the innocents also were affected. Don't you think it is a stupid thing to do?
If god really cared at all about this world being a better place, then why only do something
now? Why not don't create those problems from the beginning? Unless you are saying that god wants to show off his powers, then that's a different story.......