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And he is free to violate our free will at his leisure.

But He doesn't. God is free to commit sin, too, but He doesn't.

I'm sorry, Marlowe, but your view of God as some kind of master manipulator or Supreme office manager is a distortion of His love.

He doesn't love us if we have no say in what happens to us or in our choices.

And he is free to violate our free will at his leisure.
But He doesn't. God is free to commit sin, too, but He doesn't.
I'm sorry, Marlowe, but your view of God as some kind of master manipulator or Supreme office manager is a distortion of His love.
He doesn't love us if we have no say in what happens to us or in our choices.

I finally get to agree with sinkspur on something. :)

I'm sorry, Marlowe, but your view of God as some kind of master manipulator or Supreme office manager is a distortion of His love.

Well I guess I'd better remove Genesis Chapter 6 from my Bible. I suppose it was "free will" that rained down upon the earth for 40 days and nights, huh?

He doesn't love us if we have no say in what happens to us or in our choices.

Then I guess he didn't love Paul. I'd say he interfered with St. Paul's free will on the road to Damascus.

God is free to commit sin, too, but He doesn't.

God is Holy. Therefore he cannot commit sin. Where on earth do you get the idea that God is capable of sin? How can a Holy God be capable of doing anything that is not, by definition, Holy? Sin, by definition is rebellion against God. How can God possibly rebel against God? But that's a subject for another (currently ongoing) thread.

God can destroy all life on this earth and it will be a Holy Decision. He did it once before. What makes you think that you or I are inherently more holy than the people God destroyed in the Flood? I'm sure they all were freely willing to be saved. But they didn't qualify for some reason.

Did not God order the Israelites to kill all the Amalekite Men, women and children along with their cattle? And didn't they do it? Was God just "allowing the "evil" to happen"? Or was God actively involved? Indeed God punished Israel because they held back. I am certain that from God's perspective the killing of all the Amalekites was a Holy Judgment. It was "good". But from our perspective it seems pretty nasty doesn't it? But then we're not God.