(October 12, 2012 at 8:22 pm)ronedee Wrote: God made ALL the rules! Look at it this way: We are spiritual seedlings growing to a full reunion with God! Or NOT!
And FREE WILL means it's of our own accord! If we were robots, we would have no choices to be Christian or Atheists!
The Israelites ate food from God in the desert...yet they still fashioned a false god! Does this sound like their one God was making decisions for them?
FREE WILL condemned us from the beginning...but it had to happen that way!
Think about this: How could God possibly give "us" His Divinity w/o having to worship us?
If indeed we can perfect our lives, like & through Jesus' demonstration of Love and Faith without seeing Him...We then become worthy of ALL He has to give us!
"I Hid My Face From Them...For But A Moment."
You do realize that capitalizing 'free will' does not prove it exists, don't you? So, once again, do you have any proof that we have free will?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell