I was having a conversation with a coworker about a week ago. One point that she had brought up was that she has a hard time believing in a "good" God who allows "bad" things to happen. I was struck that night while I was reading with an epiphany. Thoughts that I had before became so much more clearer. The concept so much more meaningful...
Why does a "good" God allow "bad" things to happen?
For without "bad" there is no "good," as well as no love...
What defines "good" and "bad?" Is it "bad" because of our opinion? Or because it's something we didn't want? Or is it bad because it is evil? What is evil?
Without choice we have no ability to do what is "right." we only have the ability to do reality. It is because we have that choice that we can love. For without choice there is no love, there is just what is.
Without the choice of having that relationship with God what is there? Without the choice to give glory to God, or not, what is there? Without actually choosing to bring Him glory can "glorifying" Him actually be true glory? Which is the greater or gives greater glory: glorifying God because there is no other option? Or glorifying God because we want to?
If God were to strip us of the capacity to chose wouldn't he be stripping us of the capacity to truly love?
For without choice, without opposites, there really is no good or bad, right or wrong... There just is what is.
2 comments:
I would like to agree.
God gave us an awareness of choice between options, and the ability to choose one or the other. Without out it, we cannot engage in any sort of meaningful relationship. I have had friends who have said that they sometimes wish there was no free will, so that horrible things would not happen. Be that as it may, that is not the...covenant, shall we say, God created. It is what it is, for now.
I would hate to be conscious, but yet have no real choice. I know that I wouldn't know the difference because I never would have experienced something else. But having the ability to choose I would say that it's something I would despise because I have experienced choice. Choice is what makes us who we are. If there is no choice what does any of this matter. It's choice that defines us. That allows us to define ourselves in a sense.
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