Why didn't god just kill adam and eve after they sinned or make them infertile so they won't be able to breed, instead of permitting them to breed and having humanity suffer for thousands of years?

If there is no human, there is no problem of salvation at all. Is god a sadist in the end?

>why didn't God exterminate humanity

>>17778016
The alternative is the vast majority of all humans who've ever lived roasting on a magical barbeque forever.

>>17778011 (OP)
Maybe the gnostics were onto something.

>>17778027

>>17778030
>KJV
Pretty sure "Hades" is mentioned in Revelation, which you can either interpret as another word for Hell or the literal Greek God which carries its own can of worms (although since Revelation was written by some Greek guy on Patmos it could very well be refering to the Greek God, there are a handful of other places in the bible where multiple Gods are mentioned in passing or implied)

>>17778016
God did eventually decide to exterminate humanity.

>>17778011 (OP)
Human sin, suffering and salvation aren't variables in an equation that God has to answer for, or that we ourselves could answer.

But, to aliken it to a mathematical equation. God eradicating His creation, the man He had made, would be like taking the grand equation that is reality and at the very end, dividing it by zero.

Not only does it ruin the equation, it doesn't make sense. The outcome is then unsatisfactory, nothing was ever solved to begin with.


We think the worth of Life is to be measured against the bounds of human suffering, but Jesus as a Man embodied and indeed taught that this is a faulty way to approach a fallen world. Thus, Blessed are the poor in spirit etc. etc.

There's so much more going on here than suffering, something so perfect shining in the darkness. If we could only glimpse it, grasp ahold it, to be opened to a new measure better than suffering and pain and destruction; Love, Joy, Peace.
Jesus Christ opens that door, makes it attainable for us. Showed us the Truth by His Life.

This is where even Bhudda fell short, he saw suffering for what it was then concluded he must limit it however possible. Jesus Christ revealed to us that we can and indeed must overcome it, to surpass even death as He Himself did.

Amen, God bless you.

>>17778033
Sorry if I wasn't clear:
Revelations 20:13-15 states:
"Hell gave up the eternally tortured that were in it, and death and Hell gave up the eternally tortured that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hell were thrown into Hell. Hell is the second eternal torture. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into Hell."

>>17778011 (OP)
Because then his people would have never existed. Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Moses, Job, David, Daniel etc. These are God's favorite beings in the whole universe. None of this people would exist if Adam hadn't procreated.

This earth tree gives very bad fruits but it also gives very good fruit and God wants those fruits and is harvesting them. When the last of them is born and dies and his name is written in the book of life then he will destroy this world and create a new one for them. He will resurrect them who's name is in the book of life and give them a paradise forever.