RE: Heaven and The Problem of Evil
April 16, 2014 at 10:50 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2014 at 10:51 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(April 16, 2014 at 5:19 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(June 11, 1970 at 2:24 pm)RobbyPants Wrote: If there is a transformation, why didn't God just make us like that in the first place?I think its been made clear already. Love is a consentual relationship. Love that is instinctual or compelled is not true love.
In life you choose to either love the Lord and neighbor OR yourself and the world.
If you love the Lord He empowers you to overcome sin and purge yourself of evil desires you freely but mistakenly nurtured. This process of regeneration is called either deliverance or victory.
Free choice is never taken away. Good spirits that have left behind sinful desires use their freedom to choose various ways of doing good.
So God programs us with this unpredictable thing called free will. If we love him anyway, one of two things must be true.
1: We loved him purely out of chance.
2: We loved him because that love was in our nature.
If it's 1, we can turn against God at any moment unless he decides to take our free will away. If he takes free will away, the love is no longer consensual.
If it's 2, the test was completely unnecessary.
