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Free Will Sermon
15 years ago
Kk, I'm at college so this will be a fast one and I don't have my Bible with me so any support of scripture you can give in the comments would be nice....kk, hang on, it's go time!
Why did God give us free will? Simply because who wants a bunch of mindless puppets worshiping them? It be empty worship. But how great is it to have your creations choose to worship you among all else!
For an example, soon technology will get to the point where we can have our own virtual world, the ultimate 'god' game. And in the world you create all your characters and because what ever you think can become real there so you give them free will to see how they will on their own. Now you let them breed, and of course you create all their children, and they are just how you want them...at first. Soon a few stop thinking you exist because you never come down on the world to see them. They think up other 'creators' and praise them instead of you...now your mad at them because they reject you...so you go down to tell them otherwise, but they never seen you, so only a few believe you and the rest ignore you. You return to your perch watching them to see what happens, still in control of them...they are YOUR thoughts manifested after all.
After a few of their millennial (minutes to you...your time line) They all stop believing....your just there to sustain them...without any gratitude. This would anger all of us except for the fact we control them all....with a thought, boom, half of them disappear. While the rest try to reason what happened some find old books about you...and they start believing again...
So now I ask you, if you kept them 'under thumb' would the ones that came back to believe in you still mean as much to you then they all believed in you from the beginning and never question if you existed?
I know most would say: "I would've lived among them from the beginning!"
...God also visited Adam everyday....
"I wouldn't of created evil, everyone would be good!"
Then they would be mindless puppets.
"I'd remind them of me if they disobeyed!"
Noah's Flood, Tower of Babel, and so on.
We know God is around us, we know because with the free will God gave us, we made the choice to see Him and His works. And because we choose to believe, we serve Him with everything we have.
Ever forced someone to do something...they're not real happy and try to rebel ageist it because they didn't choose to do it.
But if you offer them something and give them a choice, they will continue with that choice happily because it was there decision.
That is why we can't force people to believe they will fight it, with nonsense even, so they feel like they have some power over their lives.
Free will is about choice, we serve, obey, and love God because we choose Him just as he choose to make us.
Hmmm, little longer then I originally thought...oh well.
~Rev. Wally Bear
Why did God give us free will? Simply because who wants a bunch of mindless puppets worshiping them? It be empty worship. But how great is it to have your creations choose to worship you among all else!
For an example, soon technology will get to the point where we can have our own virtual world, the ultimate 'god' game. And in the world you create all your characters and because what ever you think can become real there so you give them free will to see how they will on their own. Now you let them breed, and of course you create all their children, and they are just how you want them...at first. Soon a few stop thinking you exist because you never come down on the world to see them. They think up other 'creators' and praise them instead of you...now your mad at them because they reject you...so you go down to tell them otherwise, but they never seen you, so only a few believe you and the rest ignore you. You return to your perch watching them to see what happens, still in control of them...they are YOUR thoughts manifested after all.
After a few of their millennial (minutes to you...your time line) They all stop believing....your just there to sustain them...without any gratitude. This would anger all of us except for the fact we control them all....with a thought, boom, half of them disappear. While the rest try to reason what happened some find old books about you...and they start believing again...
So now I ask you, if you kept them 'under thumb' would the ones that came back to believe in you still mean as much to you then they all believed in you from the beginning and never question if you existed?
I know most would say: "I would've lived among them from the beginning!"
...God also visited Adam everyday....
"I wouldn't of created evil, everyone would be good!"
Then they would be mindless puppets.
"I'd remind them of me if they disobeyed!"
Noah's Flood, Tower of Babel, and so on.
We know God is around us, we know because with the free will God gave us, we made the choice to see Him and His works. And because we choose to believe, we serve Him with everything we have.
Ever forced someone to do something...they're not real happy and try to rebel ageist it because they didn't choose to do it.
But if you offer them something and give them a choice, they will continue with that choice happily because it was there decision.
That is why we can't force people to believe they will fight it, with nonsense even, so they feel like they have some power over their lives.
Free will is about choice, we serve, obey, and love God because we choose Him just as he choose to make us.
Hmmm, little longer then I originally thought...oh well.
~Rev. Wally Bear
Thank you!
Does that make any sense? Is it really a choice, if it's set in stone?
We can choose to do what ever we want, but God knows all of them, where they'll lead us, and tries to help get his children on the right track by putting his servants (like me) in their paths. Sometimes it works, others it doesn't.
And willingly choosing God makes Him very happy because he can then give you all the blessings He's been waiting to give you...
God is like any other parent, he wants to give His children the world (so to speak), the only difference is....He CAN give you the world...YAY!
~Rev. Wally Bear
Like some things MUST happen, and can't be avoided, no matter what action we take. Thanks for telling me. I feel better.
As for bringing up the matrix, funny you should say that. I recently borrowed a book from my library, "Theology of the Matrix"
Interesting read, to see how much christian symbolism is packed into the movies. It's all ovious to me now, but still.
Thanks again, Reverend Wally!