Punishment and Grace

[jeffyhasspasms]

So today I was continuing my reading through Exodus, and the next few chapters, 21-26, probably even further than that, were detailing all the laws and instructions God gave to Moses. What really impressed itself onto me was the fact that so much of the things God spoke about he said should result in death of the offender. That got me to wondering

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[the_squid_kid]

Jeff, I have loved reading your last few posts and I just want to say thank you for sharing your revelations from you study of the Scripture. It is so great to see posts like these. God bless!

[mdubbs]

hey, i'm enjoying them too... i'm gonna throw an idea out there because i'm not sure how i'd answer it either, but it kind of confuses me. So God created us to love him, but in our arrogance we turned away. And it made God really angry wit us. But if God created us with that capacity to be arrogant, wouldn't he expect that from us anyways?

[jeffyhasspasms]

I knod of had this talk with some people the other day. God created us to love him. And the thing that demonstrates his own love for us so much is the fact that he gave us the ability to choose whether or not we'll love him. Think about it, if you made something with one purpose, but it chose not to fulfil that purpose? Would you keep it around? Heck no. But God does, and it simply amazes me. If he made us to love him, but didn't give us a choice: one, would it really be us loving him? and two, would it really mean he loved us?