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» Brian Tubbs - The Real Issue

In response to Atrocities Then and Now posted by Migisi:

Migisi, you bring everything down to the REAL issue with this post...

If the Bible God was all-knowing and all-present, he would've known the whole future of the universe beforehand right from the beginning. He did nothing to stop the progression of evil on earth from day seven. In fact, according to the story, it was God who created the angels, knowing full well that they would rebel, torment and tempt his human creation, and destroy his world. It was God who gave Man freewill to rebel with those angels, and then God got angry with his creation?? Why? He knew it would happen! The rest is Biblical history and ALL of it is God's doing - because God controls everything, right? Either God had no power to stop the chain of events he inspired, or he didn't care to stop them, or he enjoyed the conflict and misery that resulted. You tell me what the God's 'nature' is, Brian. That is, if you can figure him out by what's written about him.

I'm not going to dodge this, but will have to tackle it in different articles, blog posts, and in other threads. It's too vast a subject to do justice to here. But this really IS the issue. If we could understand God's knowledge (including and especially His foreknowledge), then we would have all our questions answered.