Did God Make Sin? (2 of 4)
Series: Answers For Joe
Jeff Strite
Genesis 2:16-17
OPEN: A woman had volunteered to teach a Sunday School class for toddlers that included her 3 year old daughter. She was teaching them about Creation, and started her class by asking questions like ''Who made the trees?'' and ''Who made the sun?''
The children responded, ''God did'' and the woman She was pleased the children were quickly learning that God made everything.
But she admitted that teaching her daughter to do things at home was more of a challenge. For example, she was struggling to teach her daughter to pick up her toys, but her daughter wasn't learning very quickly.
One day she walked into the living room to find toys scattered everywhere and exasperated the mother said, ''Who made this mess?''
Her daughter looked up at her, and with a proud smile said, ''God did!'' (Carol J. Rivest, ''Heart to Heart,'' Today's Christian Woman)
GOD MADE EVERYTHING.
He made the trees and the sun, the moon, the stars, and the birds and the fish - everything. So it seemed only logical to this little girl that God made... the mess too.
In our text today, we're going to talk about the mess that got started in the Garden of Eden. It's the mess (we know of as) the sin of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
In this month's sermon series we're focusing on some very sincere questions about religion by one of my favorite YouTube hosts named Joe Scott. And his show (on YouTube) is called ''Answers With Joe.''
Joe said this in his monologue on the question of ''Is There A God'' where he tells of us of struggling with his faith. He said: ''A lot of the little idiosyncrasies of the dogma, just didn't add up for me anymore. Like, if God is all-powerful and all-knowing, then why does He need my help? And my money? Why did God have to kill His Son in order to forgive my sins? Why couldn't He just forgive me? For that matter, why did He make sin in the f ...
Series: Answers For Joe
Jeff Strite
Genesis 2:16-17
OPEN: A woman had volunteered to teach a Sunday School class for toddlers that included her 3 year old daughter. She was teaching them about Creation, and started her class by asking questions like ''Who made the trees?'' and ''Who made the sun?''
The children responded, ''God did'' and the woman She was pleased the children were quickly learning that God made everything.
But she admitted that teaching her daughter to do things at home was more of a challenge. For example, she was struggling to teach her daughter to pick up her toys, but her daughter wasn't learning very quickly.
One day she walked into the living room to find toys scattered everywhere and exasperated the mother said, ''Who made this mess?''
Her daughter looked up at her, and with a proud smile said, ''God did!'' (Carol J. Rivest, ''Heart to Heart,'' Today's Christian Woman)
GOD MADE EVERYTHING.
He made the trees and the sun, the moon, the stars, and the birds and the fish - everything. So it seemed only logical to this little girl that God made... the mess too.
In our text today, we're going to talk about the mess that got started in the Garden of Eden. It's the mess (we know of as) the sin of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
In this month's sermon series we're focusing on some very sincere questions about religion by one of my favorite YouTube hosts named Joe Scott. And his show (on YouTube) is called ''Answers With Joe.''
Joe said this in his monologue on the question of ''Is There A God'' where he tells of us of struggling with his faith. He said: ''A lot of the little idiosyncrasies of the dogma, just didn't add up for me anymore. Like, if God is all-powerful and all-knowing, then why does He need my help? And my money? Why did God have to kill His Son in order to forgive my sins? Why couldn't He just forgive me? For that matter, why did He make sin in the f ...
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