(July 5, 2015 at 1:44 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Why does god give us free will only to come and say how we should behave? They can never get their shit straight.
The official Catholic answer is that God wants us to love him, and love can't be forced.
How to phrase it....Suppose you build a Stepford Wife. She can do everything you want her to, but she cannot be genuine about any feelings she might have. When she tells you she loves you it's just empty words, she has to love you because her programming doesn't permit her to feel anything else towards you.
On the other hand a human wife...She may have some serious character flaws, she won't automatically do whatever you want but when she tells you she loves you it is more meaningful.
That's the general idea; he wants to be loved but for it to be worth anything we have to choose to love him. Where does the hellfire fit into this? I suppose kicking an adulterous spouse out the house into an alleyway at midnight in the rain is the best comparison I have.
