How is it possible that God could create human beings with complete free will? It's like making a robot and knowing exactly what it's going to do, because YOU created it. God is omniscient, meaning he knows (or knew) what choices we'll make. Therefore he created us knowing that we would choose to fall into sin, we'd choose to eat the forbidden fruit, we'd choose to follow Satan instead of Him. I don't understand how he could design us so that the choice would be completely up to us. Isn't everything that makes us up, especially our decision making skills, directly from the hands of God? But that would make us robots without consciousness and uniqueness, and clearly we are each our own person. I just don't understand... it seems like mankind was destined to fall into sin, and God never really created an option for us to live without sin forever. It's like some big cosmic joke. Oh, I'm bored being here all by myself, so let's create some people! But wait, let's tell them they have a 'choice', knowing all along that they'll choose not to be with me, and then the people that end up NOT believing or even BEING AWARE that God exists, they will be condemned to eternal punishment. Sounds GREAT.
I love God, though. I mean I kind of have to, knowing that He exists and that Jesus died for us (even though I don't understand why He really had to). I still don't think it's real love that we have for God. The only reason we love Him is that there's something in it for us - eternal life. Those who can process that God is real are afraid of Hell and therefore MUST trust in God if they care about their afterlife suffering. So it's like a self-preserving faith, which I don't understand why God would want that. If everyone were going to heaven, He'd know who really loves Him. They would love Him because he created them and because he is great. I feel like that love would be ultimately superior to the selfish love that most Christians express today.
Shalom.
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