Satan, Adam and Eve, and Noah’s Ark all have something in common. You know what that is?

Satan’s background starts in Heaven as an angel. Apparently he rebelled and was cast into Hell as a punishment for his evil acts. He has dominion over Hell and the earth. The only way to get out is to accept Jesus and live a life that rejects Satan’s characteristics.

Adam and Eve were the first two people on the earth. They were at one time perfect and because of Satan, they became impure after disobeying God, changing the way humans were for eternity.

Noah’s Ark is a story about a righteous man named Noah (obviously). He was commissioned by God to construct a gigantic ark, or ship, to host Noah, his family, and at least two of every animal that lived on the planet earth thought a worldwide flood that would kill everything else because it was corrupt.

Did you figure it out yet?

Each of these events almost seem to catch God off guard.

In my education of God, He created everything and He is not able to co-exist with evil. So in His infinite wisdom and all-knowing characteristics, why did he create an angel that would end up rebelling against Him? God then created Satan’s own little kingdom full of fire and torture and allowed him to have the power over His creation, tempting them in every way, shape, and form. If this is the way it happened, it doesn’t sound like a plan from a being that knows and controls everything.

Moving onto Adam and Eve, it’s pretty self explanatory. God puts a tree in the garden that they can’t eat out of, giving them an option to disobey. Apparently He put the same gene in us as He did with Satan because it is our very nature to sin. Of course they’re going to eat off of the forbidden tree. This sin causes God to evict them from the garden and curse the ground and the snake that tempted them. Another change that doesn’t seem logical in a plan.

Noah’s Ark is probably the most baffling to me. God saved one family and a few of each animal out of everything He created? This doesn’t sound like a God of love to me. I don’t understand why this was the only option. To me, the flood sounds like a story that was made to accommodate a freak event.

I don’t know about you, but because I don’t understand the reasons God had for allowing these events to unfold, I cannot just blindly accept them as truth. It seems that in the early Old Testament, God has a lot of “oops” moments.

Let me have your take on the issue. Leave a comment below.