We have a choice!
I was
asked, “If God is light and in him there is no darkness, how then, can the
creator of all things create a heaven and a hell? How can that same creator
create sin? If God is good why then is there so much evil?”
Let me start with saying that I have been under a spiritual
attack from Hell! You think of any hard question you can relating to Christianity
and have that question bounce through your head with about 10-15 more questions
bouncing wildly for a month straight, then you will know where I am at. This
has been a hard time for me, even to the point of wanting to go home. I keep
silent for some of this as I know it is a battle and that I am in the right
place pursuing God with all that I have, but these questions remain in my mind…
This
morning Julian and I, watching the sun rise up in the east while sipping a cup
of dark aromatic alluring coffee nectar, began to discuss life. I began to pour
out my heart on him. I began to unveil the battle waging within my mind, and as
I did revelation began to come to both him and I. I will say that I may still be confused on
some things, or may not have everything straight, so take what I say in the
following as just a moment of peace within my weary mind…
The
question above,
“If God is light and
in him there is no darkness, how then, can the creator of all things create a
heaven and a hell? How can that same creator create sin? If God is good why
then is there so much evil?”
You
see, in my own understanding which I believe to be inspired by the spirit this
morning, I came to this conclusion. It boils down to choice. You see, God loves
us so much that He gave us choice. He gave us free will. I believe God
recognized that if there is only option of “light”, then we are forced to walk
in light. There is no choice. If there is only “good” then we are forced to
walk in goodness”. You see, for us to love, is for us to choose love. If there
are no other options then love is forced, and therefore not love at all.
Without the ability of choice, we have no choice and
therefore are drones. In Genesis 2, God places all sorts of trees in the Garden
of Eden. He places there in the center the “tree of life”, and the “tree of the
knowledge of good and evil”. He says, “You are free to eat of any tree in the
garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Hear me closely on the following; God, in a sense, did
create all of the death, evil, temptations, pain, and other things, but not necessarily
in the way that we understand it today. He being so loving and wanting us to
have knowledge that there is option did not place “evil” in the garden, but
placed “choice” in the garden. He created opportunity of sin, but not the
actual act of it. He recognized that without the choice of sin, no one can by
their own free will choose Him. There would only be one road to walk, “The path
of righteousness.”
So by the goal of allowing us to live under the option of
free will He forced himself to create a force against himself. He created
opportunity to lose us so that He could receive us. It is not that God intended
for us to sin, but it that God intended us to have the knowledge of choice or “freewill”.
So did God create sin? Did darkness come from light? No!
Only the “choice” of darkness came from God, and man chose into it. The good
news is that God also created a way for us to walk with Him, to choose light
even when we have fallen into the shadows. That “way” is Jesus Christ.
Thank you God.
