The shortened episode of Everyone Loves Raymond was very humorous and interesting. I would suspect that this type of question that Raymond’s daughter had, many parents are faced with at some time. A question as such is a very in-depth, thought provoking question for a young child. As much as I would love to know what they did say to her, which would make my essay easier I do have a few speculations on what might have been said.
“if we all go to heaven when we die, why did God put us here first?” To attempt to answer how I would respond to this question that the child asked, I need to point out a few details. The family appears to be Catholic, because they referred to their religious priest as “father”. They go to church, so they obviously …show more content…
God wanted to share what heaven was like, and created humans from the image of him (Genesis 1:26). God created Adam, the caretaker of the Garden of Eden and the earth. Adam rose from the dirt of the ground. God believed that Adam should have someone like himself to share the beautiful earth with, so god made another human from the rib of Adam and called her woman (because she was created from man) (Genesis 2:23).
The earth was to be a permanent home for humans to live in eternal life to take care of the earth. God expected humans, to honor their creator, love the earth and be fruitful. God gave them the best gift of all, and that is freedom and choice. God did this by putting the tree of knowledge and the tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, with Adam and Eve. God put trust in Adam and Eve to populate the earth and obey him and not to eat from the tree of good and evil. However, that was short lived. Adam and eve ate from the tree of good and evil, and they then experienced sin, sorrow, and shame. Because of this, God was upset and told them that they were not to experience eternal life, and that they will now perish into the earth where they came from. So in short, eternal life was taken away from them and now eventually they will die (Romans …show more content…
God, knew however that not all humans will act like Adam and eve, so he offered his followers life after death(heaven) and the promise of a new kingdom(new earth) (2 Peter 3:13; Isaiah 65:17) which would later come with the birth of Jesus. God made the 10 commandments that would help people know what is acceptable for life in heaven and a guideline to show what honoring god involves. As time went on, God could see that humans were disconnecting from him, so he knew something had to be done. This is when Jesus was born. Jesus job was to put man’s sin at rest; reconnect people with God, and give humankind needed a mediator. In short, Jesus was needed to prove that god existed and that people would reconnect with their creator. Jesus was real, and died for people’s sins, this man connected humans with the almighty Lord and because of this, and his followers will be offered eternal
“if we all go to heaven when we die, why did God put us here first?” To attempt to answer how I would respond to this question that the child asked, I need to point out a few details. The family appears to be Catholic, because they referred to their religious priest as “father”. They go to church, so they obviously …show more content…
God wanted to share what heaven was like, and created humans from the image of him (Genesis 1:26). God created Adam, the caretaker of the Garden of Eden and the earth. Adam rose from the dirt of the ground. God believed that Adam should have someone like himself to share the beautiful earth with, so god made another human from the rib of Adam and called her woman (because she was created from man) (Genesis 2:23).
The earth was to be a permanent home for humans to live in eternal life to take care of the earth. God expected humans, to honor their creator, love the earth and be fruitful. God gave them the best gift of all, and that is freedom and choice. God did this by putting the tree of knowledge and the tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, with Adam and Eve. God put trust in Adam and Eve to populate the earth and obey him and not to eat from the tree of good and evil. However, that was short lived. Adam and eve ate from the tree of good and evil, and they then experienced sin, sorrow, and shame. Because of this, God was upset and told them that they were not to experience eternal life, and that they will now perish into the earth where they came from. So in short, eternal life was taken away from them and now eventually they will die (Romans …show more content…
God, knew however that not all humans will act like Adam and eve, so he offered his followers life after death(heaven) and the promise of a new kingdom(new earth) (2 Peter 3:13; Isaiah 65:17) which would later come with the birth of Jesus. God made the 10 commandments that would help people know what is acceptable for life in heaven and a guideline to show what honoring god involves. As time went on, God could see that humans were disconnecting from him, so he knew something had to be done. This is when Jesus was born. Jesus job was to put man’s sin at rest; reconnect people with God, and give humankind needed a mediator. In short, Jesus was needed to prove that god existed and that people would reconnect with their creator. Jesus was real, and died for people’s sins, this man connected humans with the almighty Lord and because of this, and his followers will be offered eternal