(May 15, 2017 at 11:13 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:
(May 15, 2017 at 11:11 am)SteveII Wrote: Since to love God would require free will, how does it make sense that he "chose free will over love"? What you seem to mean is that God chose the goal of having us freely choose him over our a world where we would have blissfully existed but incapable of love. If so, I agree--that is what he did.
The idea of free will doesn't negate love. And to let the myriad of his creations be punished so the few can have free will is hardly love. And, being god, he could have made his existence obvious without violating free will. If his existence was obvious, and people knew who he was, but still refused to follow his rules, then it would be closer to fair. And, since I can conceive of such a god, yours must not exist.
You cannot love something or someone without free will. There is no way around that. Giving us that ability was obviously more important to God that a perfect world with robot-like humans.
