"Since apparently you exist, why did you bother creating anything? What's the point, or what's your motivation behind it?"

Does God have to answer the question? And if he does, does he have to tell the truth?

"We did not evolved from a primordial soup, and my ancestor is not an ape... right?"

i dont believe there is a god but, what the F were you thinking???

Oh, I have MANY questions...
But off the top of my head, I think I would ask, "So! What can you teach me next?!" *big grin*

@vickevlar@xanga - The answer would be, in shirt, "A friendship with you."
@icesoul_09@xanga - That's a very sensible question to ask, but has a very simple (and logical) answer: God always existed. It would require a very in-depth explanation, but imagine a line of dominoes. First, someone had to set up those dominoes before they could even begin to fall, resulting in a long line of cause-and-effects. And once the process got going, there had to be an ultimate beginning to those dominoes - which could not create themselves - and there had to be someone who was always there before those dominoes in order to push the first one over.
I hope that made sense, but simply, no one created God. He has always been around, existing even before time, itself. (God doesn't age.)
@foxes_have_holes@xanga - There are many times in the Bible where a question is asked and God doesn't seem to answer. He is not subject to us...rather, it's the other way around. But if He does see fit to answer (mind you, if He doesn't, it is always for a good reason though we may not know what it is), He will always tell the truth. It's not within God's nature to lie. Since God IS, and because the truth is what IS, then God cannot provide anything other than the truth. In fact, God IS the very essence of truth.
@Such_Were_You@xanga - God did rather "start over" with the great Flood found in Genesis. But notice that God's intentions from the Beginning were not solely about having perfectly operating robots. Prior to Adam and Eve confessing their sins in the Garden, it says how God came down to the Garden to be with them. God's primary concern is about having a loving relationship with us - quite simply He wants to enjoy our company! :) If God had destroyed us from the first sin, that would have undermined His original reasons for creating us: FRIENDSHIP. He wasn't lonely. It was just something He wanted to do and He quite thoroughly enjoyed creating us. Because of His great love for us, instead of wiping us out, He gave us HOPE when He told the serpent (Satan) that Eve's Offspring (a huge but subtle foreshadowing to Christ) would ultimately crush Satan's attempts to destroy what God most cherished: HUMANITY.
That's why He didn't start over. He sought to restore us to perfection...a life-long process that proves God never gave up on us.
@Red_Apocalypse_Horse@xanga - Exactly right.
@Pcgecko85@xanga - Yup. That's impossible. 1) God is a spirit, not physical. 2) God isn't limited by His own creation (such as that of thermodynamics and heat).
@melyssalynn@xanga - Thinking? :) He was thinking of you.

@NaitoOfNarnia@xanga - Fair enough : )

@NaitoOfNarnia@xanga - hahaha cheesy but cute.

@NaitoOfNarnia@xanga - I'm sorry, I meant I wanted to know why God didn't start with a completely new piece of dirt.   That God took a cutting off the Adam vine isn't starting fresh, though it is starting over in a sense.   What was broken in Adam is still broken in Noah, and that brokenness doesn't take long to show itself again. 

"Why did you give my father terminal cancer that took him so fast?"

@vickevlar@xanga - @icesoul_09@xanga - @foxes_have_holes@xanga - @Such_Were_You@xanga - @Red_Apocalypse_Horse@xanga - @melyssalynn@xanga - @CrazySwede@xanga - 

The answers to all your questions have already been given.  To be able to ask God an original question, you really need to be up to speed.

In fact, when God asked Solomon what he wanted.  Solomon asked for wisdom.  God was pleased.

So instead of asking God a question that has already been answered long ago, ask God for wisdom.  That way you'll be able to answer your own questions.

@Bubbathecat2010 - Yeah, things that make you go hmmmm....

@crystal_air@xanga - :)
@melyssalynn@xanga - *chuckles* It's also true.
@Such_Were_You@xanga - Very true. Very true. And, personally, I have no easy answer. But I think it readily goes with the fact that He is a gracious God as well as a justice-minded one. Had He completely started over, there would be no need to exercise the fact that He is merciful as well. Had He only acted out of His justice quality, then even Noah would have been wiped out, for Noah was still a sinner, too.
@vickevlar@xanga - Well, let's take a look at Genesis 1 to begin with. It says that God was hovering over the waters of the formless earth. His very being was there on earth prior to His next actions of Creation. He wasn't up in a observation box as He called the shots - no, He was actively down on the ground floor putting it all together. This idea that many people have of God being distant is quite contrary God's ways. The Bible speaks many times of God's spirit descending upon the people and being close to them in various ways. The Psalmists often cry out to God to draw near to them in their our of need and then praise and thank Him when He does reveal Himself to be nearby after all.
Why exactly God set up such a huge universe the way He did, I don't know, but after careful study, one can be sure He had a good reason. It's quite likely - and I am of the mind that this is nothing but the truth - that God created all of this massive universe for us so that we could understand just how much He loves us. He didn't buy us some tiny, plastic Little Tykes playhouse. No, He up and found the best tree to custom build a magnificent tree house!!! It's easy to come to the end of enjoying all a plastic playhouse has to offer. But a tree house more than...well, however big you wanna imagine it, is not going to be so easily dismissed as yesterday's news. It seems God wanted to express to us that He was thinking of us at the CENTER of it all. We're not mere specks in the middle of the cosmos. No, we're the main attraction.
@CrazySwede@xanga - So that maybe you would ask Him that very question so that He can draw you close to Him and show you that, despite the pains that you will suffer, you are still loved and your pain is not ignored.
@foxes_have_holes@xanga - Well, I would say that's a sensible statement at first, but one needs to understand the essence of a "lie". A lie, by itself doesn't readily "exist". What I mean is that a lie's only purpose is to hide what is true. If I tell you that I have $5 when truly I have $10, then all I have done is told something contrary to the truth. The word "lie" is merely a descriptor of something that is contrary to what "is not", but is passed off as something that "is". If the truth is that I have $10, that is what the truth will always be until the reality of the matter has me gaining or losing actual money. A lie could have been anything - I could have said I had $7 or $4.37. All it is doing is trying to come up with something contrary. Without the truth, a lie holds no meaning.
Since God has always existed before anything else - even angels and demons - then He is, quite literally, the truth. I always say the nature of "truth" is that the truth is what IS. The Bible says that God always was, always is, and always will be. Since there was never a moment (from the view point of time) that God did not exist, He can neither be a lie or tell a lie, for His very nature is truth (that which IS), and the nature of a lie is that which is NOT.
I hope that makes sense...I'm still trying to refine my explanation and logic flow skills.
@too_pretty_to_die@xanga - Not to speak FOR God, but to offer an answer for you, I recommend this little blur that I wrote here.

@foxes_have_holes@xanga - Oh, absolutely! Does He EVER give wisdom to those who ask and seek for it.
I mean, just look at all the questions being asked on this post alone...obviously, people have questions with no answers. Some ask to mock while others ask sincerely.

If, as I mentioned in my comment just up above, we are so mixed up in the lies of the world that hide the truth of God, then seeking answers is a search for what really is. Because lies only need to be anything contrary to what is. It's been said that no one asks a question seeking a lie. After all, who can trust a lie? If you are told there is a bridge at the edge of a cliff, yet there isn't one, obviously it is difficult to trust what is said. We want the truth - that there IS something there after all - so that we can go boldly knowing the real state of things.

Since we have so many questions, it's obvious that many people do not have the answers and they don't wish to be duped into falling for what's not really there...namely through a non-existent bridge. God welcomes us to ask Him questions and to make requests. Jesus, Himself, said, "You do not have because you don't ASK." By all means, ASK! You'll get a "no" at times (sometimes, that's a VERY good thing) or you'll get a yes. You'll get an answer right away, other times you'll have to ask again and again. But keep asking. God always has an answer, even if it's one we don't like.