God Made Mankind, Why?

By Robert Wyeth

This book is hard to write down, because of man's sin from the moment when we are born until the time we die. Every man is doomed when we sin and can't get to heaven; because God is holy and righteous and he can't abide sin in any form.

So Jesus, God's son had to come and live with us, but we rejected him outright. He was crucified on a cross as a sacrifice for God, for us to go to heaven. This was the only way.

The Bible speaks about man in his sinful past but God wants us to repent and change our attitude to what he wants and desires.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Apr 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664115255

Robert Wyeth

After university I went to the London Bible College. I expected to prepare for missionary work, but the Lord didn’t want me to go there. I carried on as a project engineer, working in industry. I have been going to church for a number of years, and I have been an elder, so some things are good and the rest of them are bad. One friend commented to me, "After I am dead, I will be an angel. Floating around doing good for anybody." Really? Particularly so with the concept and themes of the Bible. You are children of God, welcomed in the kingdom of God, do you want to be an angel? Remember the good and bad angels. What will happen to the bad angels?

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CONTENTS

Summary

SECTION 1: HOW MEN FAILED GOD

Man’s Sinful Nature

About the Rest of Humankind

Arrogance

Boastfulness

Cursing

Debauchery

Depravity

Discord

Disobedience to Parents

Drunkenness

Envy

Evil

Factions

Faithlessness

Fits of Rage

God-Haters

Gossip

Greed

Hatred

Heartlessness

Jealousy

Insolence

Immorality

Impurity

Lying

Orgies

Ruthlessness

Selfish Ambition

Senselessness

Slander

Stealing

Strife

SECTION 2: THE FOUR SINS MAN HAS MADE

Idolatry

Adultery and Fornication

Magic and Sorcery

Murder

SECTION 3: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WORLD?

The Commandments

The Flood

The Earth Will Burn Up

SECTION 4: WHAT WILL GOD EXPECT US TO DO?

What Should They Be?

Faithfulness

Gentleness

Glory

Goodness

Honour

Kindness

Love

Patience

Peace

Self-Control

I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I the Lord do all these things. It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshalled their starry hosts. Isaiah ch.45 v6-7, 12

O great and powerful God, whose name is the Lord Almighty, great are your purposes and mighty are your deeds. Your eyes are open to all the ways of men; you reward everyone according to his conduct and as his deeds deserve ... Israel came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey you or follow your law; they did not do what you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster upon them. Jeremiah ch.32 v18-19, 23

I, the Lord, speak the truth; I declare what is right ... Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. Isaiah ch.45 v19, 22

SUMMARY

That humankind still remains on the earth. God should have wiped us out, but still God loves us. He is trying to convince us before we die that his way is the right way to go. The Bible is the key to truth; study the Bible and you will find the way to God.

He has organised the Bible to cover all the world’s populations, from the English, French, German and Spanish to the more unique languages that man has discovered. The Bible reaches many countries and shows their people the path of faith. Still man is confused, and his natural way of life is not what God wants.

In this book, I have listed most of the ways that man has tried to overcome all the violence and hatred in his sinful nature. Man has corrupted and debased the world in which we live. In Genesis ch.1, for those who read the Bible, it is mentioned that God is good: He made light in the darkness, the land and the seas, and he gave forth vegetation. He created seasons and lights, birds and fish, and creatures on the ground.

God made everything perfect.

This is the tragedy that man has made on the earth. He will carry on doing the bad and evil things that he has created until Jesus comes back again.

But God will expect us to do something, and that is very good.

SECTION 1

How Men Failed God

MAN’S SINFUL NATURE

We can start by asking what the Bible has to say about our sinful nature. In the book of Galatians, we find that man was justified by faith in Christ Jesus. It is by faith alone that he is able to live out a new life in the freedom of the Holy Spirit.

God does not judge by external appearance. The only things that counts is faith expressing itself thorough love. Galatians ch.2 v6 and ch.5 v6

This is what the Galatians tried to do – to let the new Gentile believers work according to the practices of the Old Testament. They failed to realise that a new church should be formed not from the failed system but with a new recognition that love is what God intends for his church.

Faith through love is what counts, but what about the human race?

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Psalm ch.51 v5

It is an amazing thing that at my birth, I was labelled and called a sinner by God.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do ... but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Romans ch.7 v15-18

I always want to be good, but I am biased towards sin. My sinful nature gets in the way, and my thoughts are impossible to control. I do the things I hate to do, and it’s impossible to correct it. So what is the answer?

It is by grace you have been saved. Ephesians ch.2 v5

But what does ‘by grace’ mean?

God knew we were lost and understood that we were helpless. He sent his Son to rescue us, and Jesus took our punishment on the cross. His blood was shed