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If God Has Existed Forever Why Did It Take Him So Long To Realize That He Could Make A World With

Christians, why would God put me in His Universe to exist forever in it? Wouldn't eternity be absolutely boring?

"Boring" to whom? You exist because of Isaiah 43:7.

If God exists, why did he permit Dr. Josef Mengele perform evil human experiments.?

As a parent and teacher, I often have to remind people that we must take responsibility for our actions and also the results of our lack of action.
It is appropriate to assign blame to something, or someone, if change will occur based on that acknowledgment. Obviously, people should have stopped his behavior before he was allowed to assume this position.
Again, as a parent and teacher, whatever happens in the home and in the classroom is my responsibility. As members of a society, this same concept applies.
We are God's hands and God's feet.

If God created the universe, who created God?

Although the concept of an eternal God may be hard to grasp, we can see that it makes sense.

If someone else had created God, that person would be the Creator.

As the Bible explains, God is the one who created all things. Furthermore, we know that the universe at one time did not exist. Genesis 1:1, 2

Where did it come from? Its Creator had to exist first. He also existed before there were any other intelligent beings, such as his only-begotten Son and the angels. Colossians 1:15

Clearly, then, he existed alone first. He could not have been created; nothing was in existence that could have created him.

Our own existence and that of the entire universe testifies to the existence of an eternal God.

The One who put our vast universe in motion, the One who established the laws to control it, must have always existed.

Only he could have breathed life into everything else.

Is Jesus Christ is the one and only Almighty God, Proven from the New World Translation?

In the following verses from the NWT, God and Christ both make the same claim to being in existence from before time began. Both claim to be first.

Isaiah 48:12 “Listen to me, O Jacob, and you Israel my called one. I am the same One. I am the first. Moreover, I am the last.

Revelation 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. And he laid his right hand upon me and said: Do not be fearful. I am the First and the Last, 18 and the living one; and I became dead, but, look! I am living forever and ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

This passage must be about Christ as He is saying He was dead and is now alive and God can not die.

God said He is the First and Last!

Christ said He is the First and Last!

Did God lie when He said he is the first and last?

Did Christ lie when He said he is the first and last?

Either God or Christ lied or is insane or Christ is God.

Revelation 4:8 And to the angel of the congregation in Smyrna write: These are the things that he says, the First and the Last, who became dead and came to life [again],

Revelation 21:5 And the One seated on the throne said: Look! I am making all things new. Also, he says: Write, because these words are faithful and true. 6 And he said to me: They have come to pass! I am the Alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.

God has claimed to be “the Alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.”

Revelation 22:12 Look! I am coming quickly, and the reward I give is with me, to render to each one as his work is. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

Biblical scholars agree that this is Christ that is speaking and He claims all the titles that God Himself claims. (Note verse 21:6)

Do you believe that according to any translation, Christ is “The one and only Almighty God?”

God, foresight, and free will?

There is an explanation for that given in the Bible, it's in Romans 9, but people decide what they want to believe and then interpret everything through those glasses, the same is true for atheists, they're exactly the same.

Try this:

Does God know the future for certain? yes or no?

Will things certainly come to pass the way he certainly knows it? yes or no?

Can it happen any other way?

If you answer yes to the first two, then your answer must be "no"

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I guess I may have spent half my answer responding to things people wrote, but when you consider that this is "God", He does not owe his creation an explanation any more than I owe an explanation to a plank of wood that I use to make something beautiful with or use to shim up my toilet. I know this is very uncomfortable to most people, but it's true.

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I feel exactly the same way, I've shaken my fist at the sky and asked WHY?
It's just that if you deal with this from the Bible's perspective (you said Christian, so that's where I'm basing my answer), It answers your question Romans 9:19-24. Paul is asking and aswering rhetorical questions.

To answer you specifically
What if God, wanting to show his wrath and make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction.......

Paul addressed your question. Most people today don't like his answer.
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Ok, this is why these subjects are soooo hard, you need definite rules, boundries and definitions. Most of these topics are dealt with in an entire book, it's really difficult to be pithy.

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