Does God make men sinners?

Before getting into this highly difficult subject I want to tell you the practical conclusion on salvation. The fact is that God knew that all would sin except Jesus Christ, and that man would not be able to save himself from either the guilt or the power of sin. That is why it was established before the foundation of the world that Jesus would be sent by God the Father to come as a man and die on the cross to take the punishment, guilt and power of sin upon Himself. It is only through the cross we can be saved. But to be saved from the power of sin, we NEED the Holy Spirit and we also need to practically fill our hearts and minds with the Word of God. We are too weak to do the right thing consistently without the power of God working in us.Wisdom then is to seek the Holy Spirit daily and learn to yield to God daily. If you don't do this you are on dangerous ground no matter what your theology.

Now onto the really Difficult Stuff

This is material that raises unanswerable questions for many. The subject is really too difficult to be fully understood. And people waste their time on the internet arguing about a lot of these issues when in fact a more humble approach would be to seek to be obedient to God in daily living through God's help, and seek the eternal and temporal welfare of others through acts of loving service done in the power of the Holy Spirit. But if obedience is NOT nearly so important to us as the belief that "we have the right ideas" then perhaps we have failed to understand a lot of important things in the Bible.

So Why Talk about it?

I am going to create some blog entries on this because every now and then I am hearing the voice of accusation against the justice of God - that God cannot be righteous in making people who He knows must and will sin, and then condemning them for it.

Do I Have the Answers Yet?

No I don't. I am just asking questions and trying to affirm what Scripture says. There are two sides to all of the issues here and you can try to avoid them by presenting only one side. But if you do that you must ignore a lot of other Scriptures. There is a tension that may be impossible for us to resolve intellectually this side of eternity. God commands us to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God (Micah 6:8).

Does God Make Sinners?

Firstly, we can see that the Scripture teaches that God made us, and not primarily our parents.

"Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves". Psalm 100:3.

Of course it COULD be argued that the next verse limits this because it says, "We are His people and the sheep of His pasture". (Psalm 100:4). Not all men are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Jesus said to some of the Jews,

"But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." (John 10:26,27).

But other Scriptures tell us that the wicked are made by God.

"The Lord has made all things for himself; yea even the wicked for the day of evil." (Proverbs 16:4, KJV).

The question is, were they wicked when God made them? Or did they become wicked through their own choices and by yielding to evil influences?

There are Scriptures that seem to say that God makes people upright.

Solomon writes in Ecclesiastes:

"Truly, this only I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes." (Ecclesiastes 7:29).

Poor Solomon, if this is all he found out after so much study, le

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