Why did it have to be this way?
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Version S9
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© 2012 David Robson
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It’s logical it had to be this way…
Table of contents
2 God is limited in what He can do
3 The problem of living with God
4 The sovereign choice of God in creating angels (and other spiritual beings)
5 The inevitability of an angel rebelling against God and the need for hell
6 The necessity of creating individuals who cannot see God (‘mankind’)
7 The necessity of creating mankind temporarily mortal
8 The necessity of creating a mortal world
9 Why evolution and the Big Bang theory cannot be true
10 Why there can be no other life in the universe
11 The inevitability of mankind sinning and having to die
12 The inevitability of evil and suffering in the world
13 The necessity of Jesus Christ dying for our sins
14 The necessity of Jesus Christ taking on a human body and living for a time on earth
15 The necessity of Jesus Christ being raised from the dead
17 The requirement for us to believe in Jesus to be saved
18 The requirement for us to believe in Jesus before we die
19 The necessity of mankind being resurrected from the dead
20 The necessity of having a final day of judgment
21 The necessity of a new heaven and earth
22 Conclusion - why did it have to be this way?
Suffering, death, evil—we know the question already. Why did God create the world in such an imperfect way with so many things going wrong? Surely He could have made it a much better place?