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Quest of Knowledge and Free Will (Part IV)

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God, in His omnipotence, knows what will happen if we all acquire free will or the freedom to choose right from wrong. He used the tree of knowledge as bait and put it in the middle of paradise because He knows at some point we would need it. It isn’t by accident that it is there.

God knows at some point in time, His most treasured creature would demand more independence from Him. He made man with the capacity to think. It would only be a matter of time that man would find ways to put his mind to good use. Rebellion was not farfetched. As exemplified by what happened to his most glorious angel, Lucifer.

Lucifer’s wiles to tempt Eve to eat the forbidden fruit were not accidents also. Lucifer became an unlikely instrument to hasten the rebellion and pave the way for its manifestation. God does not play a passive part. After all, He is the Creator. And things come about because He acted His part.

Adam and Eve’s disobedience brought us to the dilemma we are in. God’s punishment was His definition of tough love. It was God’s love that prevented Him from banishing our race from earth forever and to grant us free will.

The exercise of free will would inevitably determine the kind of fate we enjoy or live. This means, we all have a choice and a say on what kind of life we want for ourselves by virtue of free will which we inadvertently inherit due to our first parents’ original sin, stamped to us since birth.


Posted in Previous Authors on December 13th, 2006

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