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Originally Posted by BurningQuestion
Is the freedom that we enjoy good to have in the first place? How much freedom is too much?
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I feel that unless we are free our lives are meaningless. If I am forced to act only in one way, then of what value am I as a person? I have no choice.
If I have to wake up everyday and say "hey God I love you" or He will strike me dead, then do those words I say everymorning mean anything at all?
I can program my computer, so that everytime I turn it on it writes on the screen "I love you Ken, Im so thankfull for all the things you have done for me, and I cant tell you how happy I am to be your computer!" do you think I would get a warm feeling every morning when I hit the power button?
but if I have a son or daughter, who I raise to be independant, and they accomplish many great things in their life, and when they are 30 they come to see me and say "I love you dad, Im so thankfull....."
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I think you are missing the flip side of freedom. So many incredible acts of love and kindness have been done by humans. I cant even begin to list them all - if we had no choice, then those things would be meaningless.
I can only conjecture that what we do really means something to God - our actions and our feelings are important to Him.
As for fairness - I dont know how God will deal with everyone - I can only hope He will be fair as only God can be, that He wont treat people the way we treat each other when we are at our worst.