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Freedom is a significant part of our very existence. It’s an innate part of every human. We are driven to be free, if not, life is empty and seems not worthy.
But this freedom of choice is a delicately veiled gift. It could easily have been different. Not far removed from the liberty we cherish are the trappings of the human who is on autopilot. We are pre-programmed to provide nourishment to our bodies, and are driven by powerful desires for food. Sounds simple, but without this auto-control, many would unwittingly starve their bodies of critical nutrients and damage it beyond repair.
We are also pre-programmed to replicate. Powerful sexual desire drives us on blindly into copulation, mindless to all dangers, and the resultant progeny. Somewhere deep within our inner beings we are then led to love our offspring as much, or even more than we love ourselves. Many other species, if not all, seems to do this, ensuring the continuum of the world that we live in. Left entirely up to us though, the ideal circumstance for human reproduction would remain elusive, resulting in a stymied human existence. Simply put, very few, if any of us, would be here.
These two human behaviors are far removed from our free will. In our young reproductive years we are fruitful, and we multiply. All through our lives hunger goads us, often to the point where we can only think of food. Similar chemical changes to our brains could have made us wholly good, unsusceptible to wrong, without us even knowing it. Only, we would then be merely robots—God’s little robots.
And so, the ultimate gift—to live forever and never die—is underpinned by our free will. It seems that unless we know what it is, in the first place, to be finite, then we could never really know what it means to be eternal. If we were merely God’s little robots who were made to live on forever, then we would have no reason, or even the ability to think what it was to experience death. Here is a contrast meaning to death, which vastly manifest God’s wisdom. It seems also that without the gift of free will—to think for ourselves—we would hardly be worthy of an eternal existence; we simply would not know what it means.
This precious gift, free will, is essential to the human as a key component in his epic quest for eternal life. We are sons and daughters of God with the ability to garner knowledge, and thereafter to choose for ourselves. Are we then the only free willed specie on the planet?
Next time, let us examine the challenges of free will.
But this freedom of choice is a delicately veiled gift. It could easily have been different. Not far removed from the liberty we cherish are the trappings of the human who is on autopilot. We are pre-programmed to provide nourishment to our bodies, and are driven by powerful desires for food. Sounds simple, but without this auto-control, many would unwittingly starve their bodies of critical nutrients and damage it beyond repair.
We are also pre-programmed to replicate. Powerful sexual desire drives us on blindly into copulation, mindless to all dangers, and the resultant progeny. Somewhere deep within our inner beings we are then led to love our offspring as much, or even more than we love ourselves. Many other species, if not all, seems to do this, ensuring the continuum of the world that we live in. Left entirely up to us though, the ideal circumstance for human reproduction would remain elusive, resulting in a stymied human existence. Simply put, very few, if any of us, would be here.
These two human behaviors are far removed from our free will. In our young reproductive years we are fruitful, and we multiply. All through our lives hunger goads us, often to the point where we can only think of food. Similar chemical changes to our brains could have made us wholly good, unsusceptible to wrong, without us even knowing it. Only, we would then be merely robots—God’s little robots.
And so, the ultimate gift—to live forever and never die—is underpinned by our free will. It seems that unless we know what it is, in the first place, to be finite, then we could never really know what it means to be eternal. If we were merely God’s little robots who were made to live on forever, then we would have no reason, or even the ability to think what it was to experience death. Here is a contrast meaning to death, which vastly manifest God’s wisdom. It seems also that without the gift of free will—to think for ourselves—we would hardly be worthy of an eternal existence; we simply would not know what it means.
This precious gift, free will, is essential to the human as a key component in his epic quest for eternal life. We are sons and daughters of God with the ability to garner knowledge, and thereafter to choose for ourselves. Are we then the only free willed specie on the planet?
Next time, let us examine the challenges of free will.
The Gift of God is Eternal Life