some stuff to think about

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So like most of us would have thought about creation and stuff. And i have a few questions.

Are angels bound by time? is there time in heaven? or does time only exist on earth?
Initially i was thinking God just created angels and they existed without time. but then i was thinking how do they praise God if there is no time? If angels fell from heaven, then there must have been a time when they were "good". Is this and answerable question or is this another question that cannot be understood by a finite mind?

Another question is why did God create humans?
Ok. So like my original thoughts was that God created humans because he wanted to share life with more beings because life is good. But then i thought, why not just share life with more angels? did he not create angels to share life with them as well? Don't angels have free will as well, which would be why some chose to disobey God? Why create Humans on a place called earth in a physical reality, when he could have just created more angels? What differentiates humans from angels appart from the fact that we can be redeemed and angels can't?

Where does it say that there are different levels of hell?

Here are some other things to think about that i read in the case for Christ. This is mainly for those who have not read it, and a reminder for those who have forgotten when they read it.

The question is, 'If God is really good, why would he create a place for humans to be eternally punished just because they did not believe in Christ?'
The answer was that God initially created humans to have God at the centre of their world. Then sin entered the world and people started putting themselves in the centre of their own world. As a result of humans being self centred, we began doing bad things just for ourselves, like killing, stealing, lieing and stuff like that. It might not sound that bad, but bigger sins are things like genocide and war. So if God did not punish people, would he not be an amoral God? So he created hell to punish them. The guy in the book also said that there were different degrees of punishment, so people like Hitler would be punished the harshest (hence my question above).

Also some ask why didn't Jesus go and tell everyone to stop slavery.
The response was that telling people to change is not very effective, and what reason would they have to listen to Jesus anyways? So the idea is that to stop slavery, you first have to change people's hearts their actions will follow suit. And we can learn from this by allowing God to change peoples hearts, and that will affect their actions, instead of just telling people not to sin.

THANKS FOR READING THIS LONG MESSAGE. IT TOOK ME 1.5 hours to write. Hope you all have a good time at uni.

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