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[ Created: 2026-03-29 07:30:25  Updated: 2026-03-29 08:20:54 Owner: rl ]
Title: The cost and the glory of Free Will    
  
  
  
  

    

  
  
  
  


If God foreordains everything He is absolutely responsible for every act and therefore is Himself evil.   

The truth is that God gave Free Will which, by definition, contains the possibility of evil.   But it is the holder of Free Will who chooses to effect evil.   

Foreknowledge does not imply responsibility for what happens.   

Consider a father of several children who takes his children to an amusement park with slides, swings and merry-go-rounds.   

Suppose he just drops them off and says go play.   Suppose in the course of play a fight breaks out and they all get involved and one of them gets injured and dies from the injury.   

Is the father responsible for the death of the child?   Some would say
    'yes, he should have never taken them to the park' or
    'yes, he should have supervised them and prevented the fight', while others would say
    'no, he showed real love in giving them the freedom to play and interact without his controlling play'.   

The fact that a human father could not have known the outcome of his decision to take his kids to the park causes us to be merciful to that father.   

But God who created all things injecting free will into His greatest creation, man, could know the consequences of man's abuse of his Free Will.   

So, some accuse God of the evil that men have done and are doing.   He could have prevented it.   That is true.   

But to do so He could have never given Free Will to man.   
    Then man would not be in His image, in His likeness.   
    There would have been no possibility for fellowship between Him and man.   
    He would have just been a puppet-master.   

Suppose the father in the scenario above could heal all the injuries his children sustained from their free play and even raise his dead child?   Then the whole affair can be seen as just an experience - no longer a tragedy.   

Experiences are what make life worth living.   They are God's gift to us.   He enjoys watching us experience life.   As our Heavenly Father He does not want to see us injure ourselves and He takes no pleasure in our deaths.   

But beyond His pleasure and compassion in our experiences He did something that no human father could do.   He made a way of escape - even before He created all things .   .   
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
Jesus` perfect finished work has made us the righteousness of His Holy Spirit.     His broken and beaten body has healed us.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Jesus is life and He has the keys of death and hell in His hands.     

There is therefore no reason for a disciple to fear anything.

And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.     Believe you this?
In order for us to appropriate the truly miraculous we must believe that it has already been provided .     

Death is cessation of life.     Those In Christ will never know what cessation of life is.     When their body stops functioning they will immediately, without interrupt be alive in the presence of Christ Jesus .     

Contrast this with the state of all those not In Christ Jesus.     They live in fear of death and so are in bondage to it all their lives .     

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of the Holy Spirit is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The sin that condemns to the Lake Of Fire is rejection of Jesus Christ .     

The gift of the Lord Jesus is His own Eternal Life, which is relationship with His Holy Spirit .     

There are two types of death:
    physical death .     
    spiritual death .     

Adam and Eve did not immediately die physically when they sinned.     However, they immediately died spiritually .     

When a person sins, whether believer or unbeliever, the result is an aspect of death.     Somethings shrinks or shrivels instead of growing when sin occurs .     


Jesus gives us His life.     

What is His life?     
    His Holy Spirit .     

Eternal Life is another name for His Holy Spirit.     

To reject the Holy Spirit Of Christ Jesus is to reject Christ Jesus Himself .      .     

We don`t receive Jesus when we believe on Him.     Rather, we receive His Holy Spirit in the Name Of Jesus who manifests Eternal Life in and through us .      .     

The Holy Spirit Of Christ Jesus is who will raise us at Christ`s return .     


The gift of Himself is irrevokable .     

However, if we let sin reign in our mortal bodies we will suffer the consequences of that sin destroying our physical lives, our testimonies and our walk with the Lord .     

Instead of us living a victorious, productive life with treasure laid up in heaven, we will be saved as by fire .     

So, we see that God loved us so much that He gave us Free Will, knowing that we would abuse it, and made a way for us to be healed, to be raised from the dead and to experience Eternal Life with Him and in Him.   

His name is Jesus.   
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Creator of truth and beauty, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Only good things come from the Lord.     
He does not change over time and He is always Good and Light and Truth.     

The enemy, Satan, is the inspiration for all that is evil.     Nothing good comes from the enemy.     

Never accuse the Lord of causing or condoning evil.     That is confusing Him with Satan.     It is blasphemy.