My Friends have some questions abt God

Theology
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I’m a christian, and I have friends who asked me some things about God and Christianity itself, I know some of the answers to those questions already, but I don’t know how to explain it well to them. Please help me answer their questions:

  1. My friend think the Bible is a “secondary” source not a primer source from God himself, cus it was given to the Holy Spirit then to man to write it. I think that’s one of the reason why she didn’t really want to read the Bible.
  2. Why God created LGBTQ+ people if he going to condemn them/sent them to hell?
  3. How did God choose who got to have a “good” life and who doesn’t?
  4. Why did God let bad things happened and not stopped it? (i.e rapped)
  5. Why God created evil/bad people that are going to hell anyway?
  6. If God is omnipotent, and he knows Adam and Eve is going to sin, why did he still created humans?
  7. If God is omnipotent and know a person is going to be an atheist, why did he still created them?
  8. Is there any way/religion that you can go to heaven just by doing so much and so big of good and kind things while not believing in God? (I answered them “no” but they said it only makes them dislike religion more)
  9. My friend thinks there’s more than 1 way to get to heaven cus there’s a lot of religions (so they believe that you don’t have to believe in Jesus)

I know these are a lot and loaded questions, and I hope I can give answers to them from here :pleading_face:

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  1. God directly inspired the writing of the Bible through the prophets and apostles, as Peter writes:

2Pe 1:16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pe 1:17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”
2Pe 1:18 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.
2Pe 1:19 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,
2Pe 1:20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation.
2Pe 1:21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

  1. LGBTQ+ people’s lifestyles are part of fallen, sinful humanity, not of God’s creation. The fall of humans caused those unbiblical lifestyles, and they are part of the human rebellion against the true God who created them:

    Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

  2. That’s a mystery that God hasn’t revealed the solution of to us in his Word, the Bible. It’s OK to say that we don’t know why.

  3. God allows all tragedies and catastrophes to happen to bring good out of them by calling unbelievers to have faith in him and to strengthen believers’ lives. He doesn’t cause evil events, but the evil forces and humans cause them and are at fault.

  4. and 6. All of us are born dead to God and on our way to hell; but for some mysterious reason, though we all deserve that destiny, God chooses and rescues some humans because of his love. His justice requires such punishment, but in his love, he sent Jesus to die in believers’ place.

    1. He created you and me to call us to be his adopted children in his family, while he remains God and we remain human.
    2. You’re right, because you can tell them that Jesus said he is the only Path to heaven, because, out of all the religions, he is the only one who died and rose again to rescue people who would trust in him. No other religion gives away going to heaven freely without our earning it. The reason is that we need to be absolutely perfect to get into heaven, and no one’s perfect. Therefore, God freely sent his Son, Jesus, who lived the perfect life that we can’t never live, died the death we are going to die if we reject him, and rose from the dead to give us new life to reflect the Father’s love back to him in good works that he enables us to do.
    3. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” See answer number 8. I hope my answers, which are based squarely on the Bible, help your friend.
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Scripture does not present the Bible as a “secondary” source, but as God-breathed revelation given through human authors moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21). The Spirit did not replace Scripture, He inspired it. Neglecting the Word while claiming to follow the Spirit creates a false separation between what God has joined together.

YHWH did not “create” LGBTQ+ people or “bad people”

J.

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Welcome to the forum, its great that you and your friends are willing to talk about spiritual things.

a couple of points:-

1/ discussions about anything often involve tactics. Your friend thinkd the bible is a 2ndary source. Throw this back at her, what makes a secondary source, why does she think this, what evidence does she have for this view?

2/ Authority, If the bible is Gods word, why won’t your friends believe it?

If it is not Gods word, then what is authoritive enough to tell us all how to live.

3/ Why do All other religions expect there followers to do enough ‘’ good deeds ’ to deserve a spiritual reward and only Christianity says one cannot earn a spiritual reward, one must recieve it as a free gift.

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First, welcome @Hangal, Glad you are here.

Absolutely not. The Bible is the infallible, living, breathing Word of God. The Word has the power of life and death. It is NOT another religious book. It is the Word of God.

God did not. He created male and female to come together as one flesh. Man created LGBTQ BS through the lusts of the flesh.

He doesn’t, we do. We choose what paths we take, what we do. Ultimately, even where we end up going. It is all about choices. Remember, the devil is real, and he can bless you with riches and fame, as long as you stay away from Jesus.

Again, God doesn’t. We do these things out of our fallen and lustful flesh. I’m trying to answer all quickly, so if you would like Bible verses to back what I’m telling you, please ask.

God created perfect humans. When Adam gave authority of this world over to the devil, the hearts of people became evil. This is the whole reason Jesus died for us. Hell was never intended for man, but the devil and his angels.

A question that some wrestle with a lot. Free will is the most common philosophical response. It suggests that for humans to have the capacity for genuine love and virtue, they must also have the capacity for genuine rebellion and evil. A robot programmed to say “I love you” isn’t actually loving you; it’s just executing code. God deemed a world with free beings—even if they cause suffering—to be “better” or more meaningful than a world of “automata” who do good only because they have no other choice.

Then you have the “greater good theory” (The “Irenaean” View), named after the early church father Irenaeus. This view suggests that humans were created “incomplete” or as “infants” spiritually. True moral character isn’t something you can just be given; it must be forged through struggle, temptation, and even failure. The “Fall” wasn’t a mistake that ruined the plan, but a necessary environment for “soul-making.” In this view, a person who chooses to return to God after knowing sin is “higher” than a person who stayed “innocent” simply because they never knew an alternative.

The Aesthetic Argument: This is a more abstract philosophical take. It argues that a universe with a full range of experiences—light and dark, tragedy and triumph, fall and redemption—is a more “complete” and “beautiful” expression of reality than a flat, perfect one. You can’t appreciate the depth of a hero’s story without a conflict to overcome. God’s attributes (like mercy, justice, and grace) couldn’t be fully expressed or known by anyone unless there was a situation that required them.

Then you have a view, I believe my friend on here believes. The sovereignty/mystery. This is the perspective that suggests that God’s reasons are simply beyond human comprehension (Isaiah 55:8-9). If God is truly infinite and we are finite, it’s arrogant to assume we could judge His “cost-benefit analysis” for creation. The “glory” God receives through the entire story of humanity—including the parts we find tragic—is worth the price, even if we can’t see how from our perspective.
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Again, I would argue for free will. Others may disagree. If God is omniscient (all-knowing), He knows the final destination of every person before they are even born. This creates a difficult tension: Why bring a specific person into existence if the “result” is their rejection of Him?

An individual’s life has value and impact beyond their final belief system. An atheist may still love others, create art, advance science, or be the parent or friend of someone who does find faith. In a complex, interconnected web of history, God might create a person because of the “good” they do for the world or the role they play in the lives of others, even if that person never acknowledges Him.

Again, though, if God only created people He knew would love Him, is that actually “freedom”? If a “filter” is applied at the moment of creation so that only “believers” are ever born, then the choice to believe isn’t a choice at all—it’s a rigged deck.

For human freedom to be authentic, the “option” to be an atheist must be a biological possibility. To delete all future atheists from the “creation queue” would be a form of coercion that undermines the value of those who do choose to believe.

No. Religion is not salvation, and salvation is by only one, Jesus Christ. It may sound harsh, but that does not change the fact that it is true. Yes, no one can go to heaven or be saved without Jesus. You cannot get to God if you leave God out.

Again, you cannot get to God if you leave God out. Jesus IS God. You cannot reject Him and then say, I believe in God. Jesus said

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6

About the Bible, Jesus said this.

“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,” John 5:39

Please feel free to ask anything you wish, and others here will do their best to answer. No one knows everything, but we can help with what we do know.

Welcome again,
Peter

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Most of the questions can be answered by considering that God created the world and put us in it with free will. It would be obvious that given free will, creatures would use it to satisfy their own desires. However, when this happened, if life could be made difficult, the created beings would be forced to care for each other and perhaps learn to set aside selfish desires.

Sadly the curse God put on the ground with Adam and Eve proved insufficient to limite the evil mankind sought;

Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

After the flood life was made much more difficult. Lifespan was shortened and we were made subject to disease. There was now things like winter and drought. However, this level of difficulty did create enough reason for a few to care for each other and seek after God.

The common hell / punishment concept accepted by most of Christianity may not be entirely accurate, There may be a point where those who are not saved are simply annihilated. This way the punishment is eternal not the punishing.

The bible says that the gift of God is eternal life, why would this “gift” be given to the unsaved.

What God obtains from creation is a harvest of “sons” that seek truth and trust in Jesus to obtain eternal life.

Here is a link to some basic information about Christianity;

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That’s a lot of questions! I’ll take a shot at it.

  1. The way I think about this is, we were born on earth into a war that we didn’t start. We work for the Kingdom of God one and all, so basically hit the ground hard and got amnesia. If we look in our pack, we find 3 things, a Radio (Prayer), A Field Manual (The Bible), and a Guide (Holy Spirit) that we have to make contact with. We have to read the Manual as our Primary source of information about the War, where the contact points are coded (!!) in case it falls into enemy hands.
  2. God did not create people to be lgbtz or whatever it is. We all live in a fallen world which has been corrupted so the lgbtz people learn to say they were born like that, except they were not! Scripture backs that up. lgbtz people make choices to be that way.
  3. I suspect that God is fair about it with all people. Those who die at a young age through drugs gone bad or murder or whatever is compensated in unknown ways and situations which I don’t know how what or why but their life is probably written into the book to have major significance in that circle of people who could be turned to the Lord because of the tragedy…?
  4. So that we experience something in order to be taught to them. If before they are a believer then it may be used to turn them to the Lord, if after being saved then perhaps to test their faith.
  5. God did not create some people to be destroyed. We live in a fallen and corrupted world and He is trying to save as many as He can.
  6. The Lord showed me that Earth is His University of Brotherly Love. Love can not be taught to anyone without there being suffering and distress involved.
  7. Which atheist was that? The one who got sent to war in the military? There are no Atheists in foxholes! Then in the foxhole under fire, the Lord will save them as soon as they reach out to Him.
  8. That one sounds too deep to go into in this post.
  9. They are wrong and if they would read the Bible they would understand that too.

I hope this helps. I’m going to bed now…G’Nite!

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Those are really big questions, and honestly, a lot of people wrestle with them, including Christians. I don’t think you need to feel pressured to have a perfect answer for everything.

Sometimes what matters most is being willing to listen and have honest conversations instead of trying to “win” an argument.

I also think it’s okay to say “I don’t fully know.” There are some things people have debated and wrestled with for thousands of years.

For me personally, one thing that keeps bringing me back to faith is Jesus Himself, the way He treated people, the mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and hope He brought. Even when I don’t understand everything, that still stands out to me.

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