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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Bible Question: Something I've been thinking about for a while. God is all knowing, and a loving, merciful God. So He knew all the suffering, pain, and evil that would happen in the world. Why then did He create it in the first place and put mankind on it. Why not just not create it, if He had not created it, we would have never none it, and look at all the suffering and evil that would have been avoided. Anyone have any thoughts? wdc |
Bible Answer: You may think that I am goofy for using this reference to answer the question, but here goes. Hebrews 12 speaks of Jesus, for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, desping its shame. That joy I believe is the same reason that He created the world. JUD 24-25 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. So we could stand before the presence of His glory with great joy. He did it so that we could share His joy forever. Because of the way we are built, we need to have the contrast of the suffering, in our lives and in the world in order to understand the magnitude of the blessing that He has for us. We could not fully enter into the joy without the experiential knowledge. |