Part 6. As with any rights there also comes with it responsibility - in this instance God bestowed on us the enormous right of having free will and so the obligation is in addition huge. The danger is, that this being might choose not to like God, and not just that, he could even choose to divorce, make war with others, kill the innocent, even youngsters, and all those forms of things that are wrong. As 'free moral agents' with the capacity to choose, what we do, and how we act, there will be great conflict sometimes even to the worst of things - things like genocide.
God did not do it, we did, God did not stop it because He gave us the gift of free will with its great responsibility.
If we say 'God should stop wars', we are also saying that God should remove our free will and freedom and turn us into human robots. 'Free will' is a great privilege and has not only a great responsibility but also great risks. God's plan was a risk, but it has great rewards also. God could have done it a different way but He chose this way.
This life was never meant to be a trial program but in some ways, it now seems to be like one.
We were to have with God - where all things were perfect, but when humans disobeyed God, that act ruined God's arrangement for us by causing us to be mismatched with God and heaven.
God then put into place another plan, in order to restore the possibility of us having a life with God and forever. This new plan is not an easy one for anybody, we must work at it; the choice is up to you.
Even though God effected this next plan, He didn't take away our free choice - we can reject or accept Him.
In this manner we are not robots - we can make the choice to love and serve Him or not, just as any man and woman can make the choice to love each other and get married or not. By this, God knows and we know, if we have chosen Him or not while we live on earth. At the end, when we then stand before God in the great courtroom, to answer for our life, it will be our choice that determines if we live with Him forever or otherwise.
Certainly, God would desire friends who choose to be with Him instead of robots programmed to do and say everything that was required of them.
God did not do it, we did, God did not stop it because He gave us the gift of free will with its great responsibility.
If we say 'God should stop wars', we are also saying that God should remove our free will and freedom and turn us into human robots. 'Free will' is a great privilege and has not only a great responsibility but also great risks. God's plan was a risk, but it has great rewards also. God could have done it a different way but He chose this way.
This life was never meant to be a trial program but in some ways, it now seems to be like one.
We were to have with God - where all things were perfect, but when humans disobeyed God, that act ruined God's arrangement for us by causing us to be mismatched with God and heaven.
God then put into place another plan, in order to restore the possibility of us having a life with God and forever. This new plan is not an easy one for anybody, we must work at it; the choice is up to you.
Even though God effected this next plan, He didn't take away our free choice - we can reject or accept Him.
In this manner we are not robots - we can make the choice to love and serve Him or not, just as any man and woman can make the choice to love each other and get married or not. By this, God knows and we know, if we have chosen Him or not while we live on earth. At the end, when we then stand before God in the great courtroom, to answer for our life, it will be our choice that determines if we live with Him forever or otherwise.
Certainly, God would desire friends who choose to be with Him instead of robots programmed to do and say everything that was required of them.
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As with any marvelous rights, there also comes with it terrible duty States Neil Baulch of the Bible Timeline web page in article 6 in this serial publication on what is a christian?
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