Re: a little ranting about the "Good Lord"
Submitted by Chris on October 25 1999 at 11:04:25
In reply to a little ranting about the "Good Lord" Submitted by Dgennero on October 25 1999 at 09:44:17
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Hi Dgennero, This is going totake some deeper thought than I can give it right now, but, this is basicly my thoughts on your questions this far. I believe that God created man to have someone to truly love, and who would truly love Him in return. Now God knows that love isn't something He could "make" or "manufacture" for Himself. To be real love, to be real, it always has to come from a heart that is of absolute free will....love HAS to be freely given and recieved, or else it cannot be love. It might look like love, and smell like love,..etc. But it would not be love because it is "unfairly" influenced by a power completely out of our control. I also believe that God was going to share His knowlege of good and evil with us eventually, but only when HE knew we were ready for it. To me, this makes sense because we would have to know this in order to be completely capable of love in all of it's complexities. You know, man has devoted much time, money, literature, music, and art to the name of love, but how much about it do we realy understand? I believe that God wanted (wants) us to understand love completely, so that we may love Him and each other more completely. I think this is why our history has been so "crazy" if you would. Because of sin entering man's life, man has to really struggle to love sometimes. But sometimes it is the struggle that makes it worthwhile. And yet, God offers His great love for free; but it seems we still have to "struggle" to get it...i.e. we have such a hard time accepting ANYTHING for free without wondering what the catch is. I guess I am now rambling, but I hope some of what I said made some sense. Your's in Christ, Chris |