I'll go w/ 2 also...
The interesting thing here is, that we are trying to decipher God's mind. Which is an impossibility!
Maybe "all" of us are trying too hard to make Him fit our model of what a God should be? All that we (of faith) really know is the beginning of mankind.
What happened before that to make things go the way they are?
When you start thinking out of the box, all sorts of questions arise.
Lets say...hypothetically of course... there was a superhuman race of beings? Lets say that God... was the last man standing. "I will have no gods before me!" Makes perfect sense to think there would only be ONE! And then the OT starts making a little more sense too!
Of course after the metaphorical dust settles, He would know what was needed to be done to create a human race that would avert the first calamity?
Maybe the omnipotent method creates monsters?! Maybe love and humility averts monsters?! We just don't know.
(disclaimer)This is by no means what I believe happened.... because I don't really know God's mind or origins... only that I believe in Him. And I trust in His promise.
I just threw this out as an example of our total inability to rely on ourselves for answers to God's motives, ways and background!
The interesting thing here is, that we are trying to decipher God's mind. Which is an impossibility!
Maybe "all" of us are trying too hard to make Him fit our model of what a God should be? All that we (of faith) really know is the beginning of mankind.
What happened before that to make things go the way they are?
When you start thinking out of the box, all sorts of questions arise.
Lets say...hypothetically of course... there was a superhuman race of beings? Lets say that God... was the last man standing. "I will have no gods before me!" Makes perfect sense to think there would only be ONE! And then the OT starts making a little more sense too!
Of course after the metaphorical dust settles, He would know what was needed to be done to create a human race that would avert the first calamity?
Maybe the omnipotent method creates monsters?! Maybe love and humility averts monsters?! We just don't know.
(disclaimer)This is by no means what I believe happened.... because I don't really know God's mind or origins... only that I believe in Him. And I trust in His promise.
I just threw this out as an example of our total inability to rely on ourselves for answers to God's motives, ways and background!
Quis ut Deus?