If God himself who wants what is best for us gave us freewill, why should man have the freedom to sucker or manipulate us into situations as he so desires?
Who should play God? Mere mortals or God himself. If we think about this, God has given man a power greater than what he himself chooses to practice when men are not always as well intentioned as God himself.
Jesus is a good shepherd. Come judgment day, we shall either end up in heaven or hell.
When the devil himself is allowed free reign around us, and he has had quite some time to master the art of manipulation to damn people to hell, is God's effort to save us all really worth it especially when he gave us freewill?
The Christian world has more psychiatric conditions than others, is sanity a small price to pay for heaven when the choice we are to make leaves us with that?
Maybe heaven is a big psychohallucinogen itself to drug people into peace and serenity, while hell is the price we pay for rivalling God's power
2007-02-17 18:19:21 · 10 answers · asked by Greng 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
my goodness - what a bunch of convoluted thinking over something that is really quite simple. God gives you the greatest gift other than Life in the form of the right to choose for yourself where you want to live in eternity and you act like it is some awful conspiracy to "trick" you. You don't have to be "led" by any mortal being. It always boils down to two things: you and God. Don't blame everybody else for your bad decisions.
2007-02-17 18:25:29 · answer #1 · answered by wd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Free will is a good thing. How fun is it to be forced to do anything? I've never found it fun and I'm glad there's free will. I hate to break this to ya but, you can believe in God & heaven and not be a nut. Some people use religion to be nutty. I don't think you have to be crazy to be religious and I don't think religion makes you crazy. It's all in how you look at it. Some people will take a good thing and become addicted to it and make it into a bad thing. Lots of people do this with religion. If it wasn't religion, they'd find another vice. Those nuts you speak of probably have nothing in their lives and have only the afterlife to look forward to. That's pretty sad and I make sure to stay away from the overzealous people anyway. I like my free will and my own way of thinking. I don't need someone telling me what to think or where I'll go if I don't think like them.
2007-02-18 02:27:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not a deity that battles Satan for your soul in a Hollywood version of Christianity that is not supported by Scripture. Neither is Man a neutral being that is in charge of his own salvation. How can someone with a sin nature have a propensity for anything but rejection of God? Free will then becomes nothing to be desired, but rather it involves something to be saved from by a loving God who chooses his own out of a world of those that could very well be left in their sins, where God would be totally righteous in condemning us. And if he can choose His own as the Bible says, saving us from before the foundations of the world is not an impossiblity, or something to twist around in order for us to have "power" over the Almighty. Neither can the saved be considered robots, if anything we were slaves to sin, and set free by God.
Does Satan, then, manipulate the Christian? Again, if an Almighty God has chosen us, why would he let us go, or continue to battle the devil for our souls? Nope, we are His, and I get a lot of comfort knowing that my Lord will not let anyone or anything snatch me out of His hand.
2007-02-21 12:24:30 · answer #3 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freewill is a good thing...but sometimes it leads to evil consequences.
Love is a choice. Without our God-given right to choose love or reject love, love would not exist. Instead, we would be forced to "love."
We have a name for people who try to force us to love them. We calll them stalkers.
God is not a stalker.
Jesus said that He stands at the door and knocks...He does not say that He's going to kick the door down and come in whether we want Him to or not.
God gave us freewill...the right to choose...knowing that some would choose love, and others would not. Because so many of us reject God's love instead of choosing it, the world is full of trouble that occurs because of human sin and selfishness.
Because He gave us the right to choose, God does not always get His way on Earth. How do we know this?
When Jesus' disciples asked Him how to pray, one of the things He told them was to pray that God would get His way on Earth, as He does in Heaven. Heaven is perfect because God gets His way there.
Jesus was telling us that we'd all be better off if God got His way here on Earth, too.
2007-02-18 02:35:16 · answer #4 · answered by Answer Man 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gods people will choose God and the freewill he gave so he could distinguish those who love him, if in your free will you choose the devil who still has a short time to reign while God proves his point that a remnant would choose him and not evil. Evil will come to an end at the appointed time no matter what the devil says about it!
2007-02-18 02:24:50 · answer #5 · answered by bungyow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus spoke most often in parables. On one hand he spoke the idea of Heaven on Earth and life ever lasting. On the other, he spoke he spoke to the idea of the end times and his second coming.
We have had so many years of working toward Jesus's alternate ending that it is unstoppable now. What will freewill be saying then? Something like that old V8 vegetable juice commercial, "I could've had a V8"?
2007-02-18 02:55:47 · answer #6 · answered by eks_spurt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sound like a want a be Christian. You have no real knowledge of God yet you spout off like you know it all. I'm sorry you have not yet accepted God's Saviour Jesus Christ as the payment for all sin. I wish you good fortune in life anyway.><>
2007-02-18 02:38:01 · answer #7 · answered by CEM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i often wonder why we have free will and then i pray that God takes it from me. i honestly do because im always messing up or sinning no matter how hard i try not to. so i pray that He takes it from me. to answer the rest of ur question would require me to think too much and i just cant do that right now. sorry.
2007-02-18 02:23:54 · answer #8 · answered by emilybailey1980 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put all your psychoanalysis aside, become like a little child, and walk on into the Kingdom.
Fear not little flock - it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
Come on in - the water's fine!!
2007-02-18 02:24:40 · answer #9 · answered by William F 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A. there is no god
B. Freewill is neither good nor bad, it's irrelevant.
2007-02-18 02:22:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋