Free will.
I have been meditating around
the question of free will in recent days and the first point is that Man would
not be Man without free will; he would be an automaton or superior kind of
android.
Bible teaching is clear that Man abused his free
will and this caused the Fall which allowed evil into the world. Clearly the
individual must take ultimate responsibility for his own actions but that does
not prevent his actions adversely affecting those around him in the
meantime.
It is fundamental that the problems arose for all
from disobedience to God.
All of this is basic and so I have tried to think
around what things I would change in the world if I had a magic wand and could
make four or five mega changes to the world.
It is strangely difficult as there are so many areas
where you feel that you may be crossing the Will of God with such
interference.
Certainly, the abolition of war is one area that
could be considered but it is possible to consider circumstances where war is
the lesser evil.
What about illness? How righteous would it be to
abolish disease and thereby remove something which is so often a direct
consequence of sinful behaviour? Could you discriminate?
I do not know the answers to these points and is Man
meant to sort out the entire hunger issue himself?
Hmm.
Tricky.
.jpeg)