The Answerer

“No.” Now there is a pretty short answer. ‘How come?’ you may ask. Well several times he told his disciples : “I have come to do the will of Him (God) who sent me,” and other statements like that. Jesus is referred to as ‘The Sinless Son of God’. In all of the Old Testament – from the time of The Ten Commandments up to the time of Jesus, when a sacrifice to God was made, it had to be: “…a lamb, a goat or bullock without blemish. God did not appreciate damaged, injured, or sick animals for the sacrifice, i.e. damaged goods.

The sacrifice was made to ‘…cover the sins of the person offering the sacrifice.’...and it cost them money too! God got very, very angry when people who knew better, offered imperfect sacrifices (sick or injured animals) and punished them for it.

So, in order to ‘…die for our sins’, Jesus knew that to sin would make him unacceptable to God as a sacrifice for us. He therefore kept himself – with God’s help – free from sin.

God, and Jesus did no wrong in their life. In the written question the word ‘Sexual’ has a capital ‘S’ and appears to be partly crossed out. Not to worry – neither God, nor Jesus got into sexual, or any other sort of sin. I believe that if there was, the whole world, and the universe would be affected by the attitude that sin brings on – trouble and always bad.

What a good question. “Yes!” He sure does love us soooo much indeed but long ago He chose to give us humans a choice to do right – or to do what is wrong.(Try to imagine this world if we humans had no choice to be good or bad.) It would be a strange place where everyone moved around as though being told by an unseen voice what to do every moment of the day. Phew!!

And, understand, not everyone is in good health, having a good life and does not want it to come to an end. Some begin life sick, and stay sick all through life.

We die…so we can go and be with God in heaven where: “He will wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor pain. All that has gone forever.” (Revelation chapter 21:Verses 2 to 4.) We die and go there if we choose to. At 80 years plus, this writer is looking forward to that trip.

The unpleasant sort…always after No.1. Like…‘I want what I want now’…that sort of attitude. As in Question number 182 above, child abusers are at the top of the list, that’s physical, sexual and emotional abuse. If you need to, ask a trusted, wise person to explain those words to you.

One in five children in Western Australia are abused in some way at sometime. Few of them understand just how evil some grown up people can be.

I guess the next in line would be males (“men” is too good a word for them) who get drunk and come home and belt up their wives while the kids are there. Gutless males of the worst kind. Next come drug dealers who hook young people to make money from them. Then bank robbers, murderers, Banksters (executives of huge banks and businesses) who use their power and influence to rob millions of ’Little people’ of their savings. The same sort of ‘Robber’ was around when Jesus was here.

Most people couple these three questions together (check out some of the other answers), and a sudden death is a bad thing especially for a young person. Joseph’s story in Genesis Ch. 37 to Ch. 50, tells the story of the beginning of the nation of Israel. Poor old Joseph was sold into slavery as a teenager, went to jail for seven years on false rape charges, but finished up being the Governor of all Egypt. (Gen.42:37-43). But God planned it that way!

Joseph suffered much, but eventually realised that God had planned all the bad things that happened and God knew that Joseph – even though suffering a lot, was made of  ‘The right stuff’. God’s hand was in it all and the nation of ‘Israel’ was founded on Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel), and his 12 sons and Joseph’s persisting in doing right and not fighting God’s plan.

This writer (The Answerer) fell at home and has spent 39 years in a wheelchair. Somehow I went from making things, to being a teacher, and then teaching Scripture for 25 years and a question answerer (like the above 189 questions), with more to come. Somehow for me, God made lemons into lemonade!! Jesus does know what is going to happen tomorrow (see Q65), and He has been known to save little children from death, but not all of them. We humans are given a choice to be good or bad.

Many are bad, but many more are good, and in between bad and good things happen to all people. Experiencing trouble makes many people very compassionate and helpful. Other people seem to make trouble – just to make trouble. Who puts viruses into computers? Bad people. We all have a choice to do good or bad.