(November 11, 2020 at 11:21 am)Eleven Wrote:(November 11, 2020 at 11:19 am)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: I think it's coherent to think of God as being righteous.
Quite the opposite, actually. Why is it that those who want to be ruled under a dictatorship see nothing but good in it?
That is the flesh speaking. You see God as dictator because you want to rule on His throne. It's YOU who are the true dictator, the tyrant who says "my way or the highway." God allows you to do this for a time, so that you can see your way is the path to hell, that it's wrong and will only bring you misery.
I won't say it isn't true that God is a dictator. He is. But "dictator" on its own doesn't necessarily imply evil. You seem to think it does. God eventually dictates to all that you will follow His ways, but not because He is forcing you to. That isn't the correct way to look at it. You will bend the knee because you will eventually realize that He deserves to be worshiped, and that His ways should always be followed, because He is righteous.
The flesh rails against this, seeing itself as having intrinsic value and deserved authority. It has neither.
