@Campbell34,
Campbell34;24743 wrote:If the Bible is not to be read literally, why then are all the prophecies being literally fulfilled?
And again, it is people and their rebellion against God, that has not gotten it right.
And the only way that it could of been made right is if God made a creation that was forced to love Him, which is really not love at all. So you see, God has given us all a chance to accept Him or reject Him, God does not force us to love Him. And that is where free will comes in.
Prophesy is the killer of free will. What happens to free will when we are only doing what God has forecast. Catch 22. You hurt yourself with your own words.
Your God certainly tries to force man to love him. Why else dangle Hell in our face.
If we had no knowledge of good and evil we would be robots not knowing why we follow.
Only by knowing why we follow, can God say that He has captured our hearts. To not know good and evil, why would we follow Him. If Hell is the only option, where is free will.
Why would He create evil in the first place if we were not to have it?
Thank God He gave us the power to rebel against ignorance.
Regards
DL