Let me try a response...
Free will is something which allows true love to exist. i.e. you can
not really love someone (eg. God) without having a choice(free will).
I repeat, for love to exist there must be free will. That is the
real downside for God because people and angels can chose to love
God or not. That choice was made by Satan. I can't imagine that God
wanted Satan to make that choice. It was Satan's choice.
Like you, I also have a problem with the statement:
< There had to be evil to illustrate good >
Maybe it is true but it seems like a rather odd way to illustrate
good.
You said,
<If this world was completely devoid of evil, I would still have free will.>
According to the way I think of free will and evil (at top) I do not
think that free will would exist. Again God wants love, therefore
free will must be given, thus evil exists. No free will/no evil.
<But, God chose to create men of decency and of indecency>
Again from my interpretation of free will I would change your
statement to: God chose to create men and to give them free will.
They chose decency or not.
<It is up to decent men to mold this world into a decent world. That
is our challenge. That is our mandate from God!>
I have never heard that we are supposed to mold this world into a
decent one. However, I think it is an honourable goal. I think we
could exchange the word mandate for commandment. Far enough. Then
our commandment/mandate is to love God with all our heart...
That I have definitely heard.
Good luck in your quest for truth. I just saw that your profile
quote is: Edmund Blake's "Evil triumphs while good men do nothing."
That is a pretty damning quote. Anyway, that is another
whole discussion. How about this quote/promise? Seek and ye shall
find. That promise has been something I have held up to God many
times in my life and said, you promised this please help.
Dave :) New to SI. |
