(February 26, 2016 at 5:32 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: The bible tells us that when Jesus returns, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that he is lord. In order to do this won’t god have to violate a lot of free will?
Their will be billions of people who will look back at all the pain, the sorrow, the agony, anger, violence, misery, injustice and suffering that has permeated human history, and when god reveals his ultimate plan, they will say, “No! The end doesn’t justify the means.”
These people will have to be forced if every knee is going to bow and every tongue confess.
But if god is the same unchanging today, yesterday and forever, why was he unwilling to violate free will not even to prevent suffering and evil, but is now will to violate it to force people to worship him?
Does anyone else have a problem with the priorities of this psycho egomaniac? No, I should say with the people who dreamed up this psycho egomaniac and called him god.
See, I wouldn't necessarily conclude that God is going to force people's knee to bow, but rather that everyone will be pleading with God to save them after it's too late. When I was a believer, I never read it in the way you are. Instead, I just always thought that the "unsaved" masses would be repenting when faced with their eternal damnation. So, take comfort that God won't violate your free will as he's tossing you into the lake of fire.
