God's Love

This short piece is another one from my friend Julian Haydon. Again, concise and pointed.

GOD'S LOVE

God: all-knowing; all powerful and all good.

A loving Father, just, forgiving and merciful.

Before the Creation God broke his endless rest and created mankind from innocent nothingness.

We were thereby entered into the casino of life where the stakes were the highest within human imagination:

• life everlasting, reunion with the departed, and inexpressible bliss. 'Few' would go there.
• or, an eternity of suffering in a lake of fire with no relieving death -- ever. 'Many" would go there.

But it wasn't a gamble.

He showed us the way to be saved -- though to some he provided much more and more convincing information than to others.

He also gave us free will in equal measure to all everywhere -- though it is the only attribute given equally to all -- with which we are enabled to know and do right or wrong.

By His definition, He knew before each person was created whether he/she would go to eternal bliss or eternal suffering.

He also had the power to create all so they would have no tendency or desire to do anything but his will.

Are you able to look at these facts of Christianity and see a loving, just, forgiving and merciful Father? Do these facts conform to the meaning you attach to those words?

What then, if he had left those he knew would go to hell, uncreated?

Would that have been evil or merciful?