(July 11, 2013 at 5:14 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(July 11, 2013 at 4:49 pm)ronedee Wrote: sin or evil (against God's will) = death sentence from God.
Great - a solid definition! See? All that trouble and upset could so have been avoided so easily! Right, so sin is some action against God's will (and apparently is synonymous with evil, or at least comparable with it). Okay.
1. How can anything happen contrary to God's will?
2. Doesn't that make sin totally dependent on the existence of God and the correct understanding of its character? Put another way, if God were to be removed from the picture, sin would disappear forever. Why then does God not make itself cease to exist and thus destroy sin?
All assuming that "God" actually exists, obviously.
1. free will
2. LOL! You are not making things easy here stimmy!
[sin] is the absence of God. When God created man, He knew that "free will" would have to be included. Otherwise we would just be robots. The problem with [free will] is that it leaves us exposed to relying on ourselves.
We could use a baby learning to crawl as a "kind of" metaphor.
I don't know if you have children, I have enough for both of us! They try and get away from you as fast as they can to explore. Tell them not to do something? And BINGO...they do it!
So, with mixed feelings we let them explore...and possibly hurt themselves and us in the process.
Would we want them as robots doing our bidding? LOL! Sometimes! No...we wouldn't. We want them to grow up independant, but being essentially good, and loving to us! We like them to be successful, and kind of like us! We wuld do anything for our kids...even die for them! Because we love them more than ourselves!
Are you getting my point stimm? Why not God?
Quis ut Deus?
