11 Jan '20 12:46>3 edits
@SecondSon
That belief rests on an assumption that the designed will of man could not choose to damage the relationship the created man has with their Creator.
Is this assumption right? That needs to be determined.
Does the created man have within himself a deciding will which could cause self damage to the core of his own design? That is the question that needs to be determined.
Solomon said he knew one thing - God made man upright but man has sought out deceptive devices - SOMEHOW.
"See, this alone have I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes." (Ecclesiastes 7:29)
When I muse over this problem my thought is twofold:
1.) Apparently an innocent and neutral man designed well had within him, nevertheless, the capacity to go another way then besides God's way.
2.) Is seems that God has allowed that course to develop temporarily. After a time it may be that such a rebellion could never ever exist again.
I could go the route of some - If there is any flaw in human beings it has to be that fault of the Creator of human beings.
If I ever change to adopt that view I'll let you know. I think the freedom of the will is a tremendous thing God created in man.
If man was created by God, in His "image and likeness", then for man to fail to recognize, in himself, what he is made of, he is fundamentally flawed at his core.
That belief rests on an assumption that the designed will of man could not choose to damage the relationship the created man has with their Creator.
Is this assumption right? That needs to be determined.
Does the created man have within himself a deciding will which could cause self damage to the core of his own design? That is the question that needs to be determined.
Solomon said he knew one thing - God made man upright but man has sought out deceptive devices - SOMEHOW.
"See, this alone have I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes." (Ecclesiastes 7:29)
When I muse over this problem my thought is twofold:
1.) Apparently an innocent and neutral man designed well had within him, nevertheless, the capacity to go another way then besides God's way.
2.) Is seems that God has allowed that course to develop temporarily. After a time it may be that such a rebellion could never ever exist again.
I could go the route of some - If there is any flaw in human beings it has to be that fault of the Creator of human beings.
If I ever change to adopt that view I'll let you know. I think the freedom of the will is a tremendous thing God created in man.
"And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may eat freely, But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." (Gen. 2:16,17)