It’s Your Choice, I Won’t Force You!
God never resorts to brute force to get us to do anything. He is love. Love doesn’t force another’s will or it isn’t really love. If you want the best description in the Bible on what God’s love looks like, read 1 Corinthians 13. “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a. God isn’t like us. He doesn’t think like us or act like we would. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9.
If God intervened every time someone hurt another person, would you and I have freedom of choice? Would be free? No, we wouldn’t. We have already seen in previous articles that we human beings have a sinful human nature that makes us naturally evil. We are born in rebellion to God and his government. If we trust the bible, we know that God is all powerful and all knowing. There is nothing that is impossible for God and there is nothing that he can learn since he already knows everything there is to know about anything. Now let me ask you this, if you were God and you were faced with beings you created who are in direct rebellion to everything you stand for, what would you do? Would you put up with this? Would you intervene? If so, how? Read More





