Why God would disapprove of anything He created? I disagree with the idea that we can act outside of God's will, or
As I quoted from Psalms , the Israelites hurt / pained Jehovah. Genesis reveals the regret Jehovah had w/ the way men were acting before the flood, it hurt Him.
So you believe God likes being hurt?
What is Free will, to you?
What did God mean at Deuteronomy 32:4-5?
What happened with the Ninevite Assyrians, in Jonah’s day? God basically told the Ninevites, ‘I
will destroy you.’ Definitive! He didn’t have Jonah tell them, ‘If you repent, I won’t.’ Their destruction was going to happen!
But they turned around,
and God relented. — Jonah 3:10
When someone knows what’s going to happen, they never relent.
In Genesis 18, we find Jehovah God didn’t know the extent of Sodom’s badness. He told Abraham, recorded at vs21, “
I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
Sounds like Jehovah didn’t know for sure.
You see, when it comes to His intelligent creatures, He respects their Free Will, their ability to choose how to act. They will have to reap the consequences of their actions, of course — we all do — but God won’t interfere.... at least until those issues raised in the Garden of Eden are settled.
Yes, God knows how certain things will turn out — what results from particular actions — but He doesn’t necessarily know
who will perform those actions. I said “necessarily “, because He can read our hearts though, and He knows our inclinations, but ultimately
we have the control over ourselves, not God.
A perfect example of this, is the incident with Cain, before he murdered Abel. God spoke w/ him, told him where such actions would lead... tried to get Cain to think, but Jehovah didn’t stop him.
Now consider, would God have even tried, if Cain was ‘gonna do it anyway’?
That would make no sense.
Take care, my cousin.