09 Mar '05 17:32>1 edit
Originally posted by DarfiusI also said "We will have earned it."
I also said "We will have earned it."
If we had all been created that, we would not have earned it. Our love would have been coerced and not true. You have to understand God's motivation before you can understand His work.
Yeah, I didn’t think you’d let me ignore that. 😉 I’ll just say that that statement goes against fundamental Protestant doctrine, since Luther, that we can do nothing to “earn” it—it is completely God’s grace. Well, that’s off-topic here.)
If we had all been created that, we would not have earned it. Our love would have been coerced and not true. You have to understand God's motivation before you can understand His work.
This goes back to dk3nny’s question about God creating us because he was lonely and wanted someone to love him—and coerced love is not true (or even possible, really)—but we all went off on the suffering, etc. Is dk3nny’s characterization of God’s motivation accurate (up until the “suffering” part anyway)?