(July 15, 2012 at 10:31 pm)Undeceived Wrote: You make it sound as if free choice is the greatest good in the world, and that's all God should be satisfied with. Actually, the freedom to choose good or bad makes the good all the more potent and worthwhile. Without freedom we are not living, thinking beings--we are systems. God did not create us merely to do good actions, as a robot would do. He created is for love. He, like all of us, desires relationships with other intelligent beings. If we love God and sin, that is far better than doing good without love. In fact, without intelligence there is no right or wrong because there lies no thought behind the action. Only when we are given free choice does morality enter the equation.
Uh, was this a screed meant to satisfy the belivers? Im confused now. The Yoda-esque: "He created is for love" quote is actually quite confusing in context. I would like to consider myself understanding in that I'm not a grammar or spelling freak, but I'm at a loss here.
