Bible Discussion Thread

i believe and fear the Lord 's judgement upon me. i feel His will trying to move in me to change me for the better. i know it is wrong to tempt God for explanations... but still i am confused almost to the point of questioning God 's swinging back and forth in His decisions to give free will and not punish us till death, and then His decision to appoint a time to judge the living. i am mortal and think as a mortal. so i guess i wrongly compare how i would look as compared to how God looks in the eyes of a mortal. God seeming indecisive, flip flopping, or giving a set time and a chance for us to pull ourselves together and be kinder, more charitable, less violent and less judgmental ... but why give us all a 2000 year grace period when God is all knowing? why not judge us at the time of our first mortal sin at the time when we knew better than to commit it and we still went and committed the sin? is it because we need a lifetime to focus, control, and discipline our own minds to a point of sinlessness if that is even possible ? i guess i have to console myself that God, like any good mortal parent, gives His children room and time to improve in the hope that they equal or surpass the parent. i have to believe that God knows that this chaotic cataclysm will change the world and redirect it to one, simple, higher goal... the betterment of all of us through selfless acts.