God had angles before he created man, so it seem that world had the same problem as this one, could it be?
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The Angels messed there playground up so god made man and man is doing the something maybe worse....but the way I see it god didn't create man man created god..He's someone to thank when things go your way and also someone to blame when they don't
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Several of the previous answers have some really good points.  The truth is we don't have the mental capabilities yet to understand the size and extent of the universe, or even the amount of time it's been here.  So it's at best a weak guess as to what was here before, if there was a before, but there has to be a before, at least in our own ways of thinking.  It would probably take a few Einstien's to figure these things out. What I mean by that is someone who could think as far ahead in our time as he did in his time.\n\nThen, unfortunately, as has happened in every culture since they started looking at the moon, we come up with a God to explain what we can't explain and then we have wars and fights and judgement on others who don't accept this God.  I guess we should go back to beheading people who try to figure things out instead of closing their mind and blaming it on God.
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Sure there can be.   It's all a matter of perspective.   \n\nUltimately, you can keep questioning everything to the point where we couldn't comprehend a diety.   Where did we come from?  God made us.   Where did God come from?  He always was.   \n\nI've always had a problem with..."He always existed."   So, if he always existed...what did he do?   Just sat in the middle of nowhere doing nothing.
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Well, if man is actually created in God's image then I would have to assume He would blow up the Earth.\n\nTherefore, I wouldn't worry about the Earth blowing up.
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The Bible came first,the others followed. I believe that it is very possible that the ideas came from the worlds oldest book. Most peoples from the world share similar stories of a world wide flood and the gathering of one of every kind of animal. A very interesting question!
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Just thinking about your statement.  You could be wrong.  I would tend to believe that the oldest beliefs would more likely be the correct ones..(closer to creation) and polytheism came first.
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no, bible states that God created man and animals on different time. And he created man according to His images not on monkey's image.check this verses from Rom 1:21-22\n\n 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
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u know how god did creat other perfect worlds, well they might be from the those people, if u think about it, i mean come on they could be saying ,'behave, he is coming again'. but they have found signs that peole were making the signs
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earth is obviously created "naturally", in my opinion, there is no such thing as god, rather, earth was created coincidentally.\n\nwhen the solar system is formed, little bits of the sun is trapped by its own gravity, because they were fluid, they formed spheres, this explains why planets are round and not triangular. earth was one of them, it was once small and in habitable, it is only by chance an asteroid nearly the size of earth than collided and fused with earth, readjusting its orbit, size and atmosphere, this also provided the optimal conditions for simple organisms to form out of chemical reactions between chemicals found in the sea together with other natural phenomena like lightnings.\n\ngod had no hand in this, rather, god was created by man
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I think it has something to do with Right side and wrong side,\nactually only God can rule man.
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I believe that, no, God did not "plan" it this way.  But, I think that God knew that humans were going to be weak.  Yes, I know that that sounds like a contradiction, but, honestly that is the best that I could come up with.  I cannot speak for God, but I know that He knows best.
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I have heard many stories of Angles looking like men, so I would think demons can also since they are fallen angles.
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We are all different, we come from different cultures, have different experiences.  Why would you think we would have the same understanding of God?\n\nGod does not impose himself on us as an objective reality, he writes his message on our hearts, not in our brain.  Imagine people approaching a mountain from different direction.  It the same mountain but people are going to see a different aspect of it.  None are wrong, its just a different perspective.
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Huge Problems!!! where!!  have you ever thought the rules of the past may not be applied to what is today!  Adam is believed to have been created as a perfect being, and we know now that the humans are not perfect! get the point!!  Once upon a time Africa was a huge forest, now it is a big desert! ever wondered why!  think about it.\nDuring the time of ADAM and EVE, some believe didn't even have a spoken language, and now, we have so many languages!! ever wondered why!\nEarth is a living, or dying plant.  what was in the past, we many never see, or see again.\nCan you explain any of my questions! if you can! then you will get the answer to your questions as well.  Good luck if you can.\n\nIf the Genesis confuse you, try the Quran, but first take two asprines before you start reading. \ntake my advice.  Sincerely llewrose MD :)
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This is a complex question, and the answer depends upon your definiton of God. If your God is an old geezer in the sky who created absolutely everything, then it would logically follow that he or she created hatred. But maybe God just established the laws of nature and then set everything in motion (Deism). In this case human beings are the inventors of hatred. Or, maybe God is the same thing as Nature, in which case people would still be the inventors of hatred (and evil). Lots of theologians have struggled with this question.
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God is Not jealous.  Man wrote Him out to seem this way.  Think of it, a Mighty Creator jealous of what He Created?  \nnot likely...\n\n.
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Of course its not, I think everyone has a mental image of what God may look like.  Remember our Bible was written by man and therefore has many contradictions and confusing parts about it.