IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING!
In the earliest of all beginnings, God had some exceedingly difficult choices to make. Would He create life or not? More importantly, what kind of life would He create? Would it be programmed like a computer to behave in certain ways? Would it be an animal with instinctual behavior but no conscience? Or would the highest level of created life be very similar to God Himself, with moral sensibilities and the freedom for each individual to choose his own destiny?
God’s choice was made infinitely more difficult by His foreknowledge. He clearly saw that to allow free choice would lead to the horrors with which we are all too familiar. Would He create robots, or animals, or beings in His own image who would almost destroy His universe? God knew that it would be better to create nothing at all than merely to create robots or creatures without free choice. He understood that only creatures with total freedom of choice could enter into the relationship He desired to have with His creation.
By endowing intelligent beings with total freedom, God would expose the universe to extreme danger. All His created beings could choose against Him, and thus doom themselves to self-destruction. If there is any sense in which God is responsible for the existence of evil, it is because He decided to allow free choice, with all options totally open. But I thank God today that He did not choose the other options, and that I stand free in God’s universe to make my own choices, with no hidden buttons which some higher power can push to make my decisions for me. Even in the midst of evil and despair, I will stand free to choose another way, with no overriding fate determining my destiny."
"Free choice is the most important concept in the history of the universe. It is the inviolable right of every created being, with which God will not interfere and with which Satan is forbidden to tamper. The answer to nearly every problem today comes back to the concept of free choice. Because the very nature of free choice is to be independent of coercion, any decisions made are the individual’s own responsibility and cannot be charged to God. They cannot be predetermined or controlled.
So even though God knew that one angel would exercise the right of free choice against Him, personal liberty was so important that God made the decision to create intelligent life anyway. Once this decision was made, it would not have been possible for God to remove Lucifer from His creation plans. If God were to eliminate, before their creation, all beings who would choose against Him, would free choice be real or a sham? This most important principle would be turned into a lie, and God would be fully aware of His own hypocrisy.
In the earliest of all beginnings, God had some exceedingly difficult choices to make. Would He create life or not? More importantly, what kind of life would He create? Would it be programmed like a computer to behave in certain ways? Would it be an animal with instinctual behavior but no conscience? Or would the highest level of created life be very similar to God Himself, with moral sensibilities and the freedom for each individual to choose his own destiny?
God’s choice was made infinitely more difficult by His foreknowledge. He clearly saw that to allow free choice would lead to the horrors with which we are all too familiar. Would He create robots, or animals, or beings in His own image who would almost destroy His universe? God knew that it would be better to create nothing at all than merely to create robots or creatures without free choice. He understood that only creatures with total freedom of choice could enter into the relationship He desired to have with His creation.
By endowing intelligent beings with total freedom, God would expose the universe to extreme danger. All His created beings could choose against Him, and thus doom themselves to self-destruction. If there is any sense in which God is responsible for the existence of evil, it is because He decided to allow free choice, with all options totally open. But I thank God today that He did not choose the other options, and that I stand free in God’s universe to make my own choices, with no hidden buttons which some higher power can push to make my decisions for me. Even in the midst of evil and despair, I will stand free to choose another way, with no overriding fate determining my destiny."
"Free choice is the most important concept in the history of the universe. It is the inviolable right of every created being, with which God will not interfere and with which Satan is forbidden to tamper. The answer to nearly every problem today comes back to the concept of free choice. Because the very nature of free choice is to be independent of coercion, any decisions made are the individual’s own responsibility and cannot be charged to God. They cannot be predetermined or controlled.
So even though God knew that one angel would exercise the right of free choice against Him, personal liberty was so important that God made the decision to create intelligent life anyway. Once this decision was made, it would not have been possible for God to remove Lucifer from His creation plans. If God were to eliminate, before their creation, all beings who would choose against Him, would free choice be real or a sham? This most important principle would be turned into a lie, and God would be fully aware of His own hypocrisy.
IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING!
In the earliest of all beginnings, God had some exceedingly difficult choices to make. Would He create life or not? More importantly, what kind of life would He create? Would it be programmed like a computer to behave in certain ways? Would it be an animal with instinctual behavior but no conscience? Or would the highest level of created life be very similar to God Himself, with moral sensibilities and the freedom for each individual to choose his own destiny?
God’s choice was made infinitely more difficult by His foreknowledge. He clearly saw that to allow free choice would lead to the horrors with which we are all too familiar. Would He create robots, or animals, or beings in His own image who would almost destroy His universe? God knew that it would be better to create nothing at all than merely to create robots or creatures without free choice. He understood that only creatures with total freedom of choice could enter into the relationship He desired to have with His creation.
By endowing intelligent beings with total freedom, God would expose the universe to extreme danger. All His created beings could choose against Him, and thus doom themselves to self-destruction. If there is any sense in which God is responsible for the existence of evil, it is because He decided to allow free choice, with all options totally open. But I thank God today that He did not choose the other options, and that I stand free in God’s universe to make my own choices, with no hidden buttons which some higher power can push to make my decisions for me. Even in the midst of evil and despair, I will stand free to choose another way, with no overriding fate determining my destiny."
"Free choice is the most important concept in the history of the universe. It is the inviolable right of every created being, with which God will not interfere and with which Satan is forbidden to tamper. The answer to nearly every problem today comes back to the concept of free choice. Because the very nature of free choice is to be independent of coercion, any decisions made are the individual’s own responsibility and cannot be charged to God. They cannot be predetermined or controlled.
So even though God knew that one angel would exercise the right of free choice against Him, personal liberty was so important that God made the decision to create intelligent life anyway. Once this decision was made, it would not have been possible for God to remove Lucifer from His creation plans. If God were to eliminate, before their creation, all beings who would choose against Him, would free choice be real or a sham? This most important principle would be turned into a lie, and God would be fully aware of His own hypocrisy.
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