The all-important Why

82 He accordingly also said: We are not hindered by God from committing injustices and crimes, because we do indeed possess our free will. (I find what I write here quite shocking, but we experience this on a daily basis: Nobody is stopped from doing evil deeds.) After these words we naturally ask ourselves: Yes, but why did God give us this free will, if it results in such horrible disadvantages for all of mankind and the whole planet? The answer given by Pastor Günther Schwarz is accordingly as follows: God wanted children and not robots. He could have simply programmed us. But this was not worthy of him, because he wanted children that could freely unfold and develop as individuals in his expansive spiritual realm. All within the parameters set by him. Günther Schwarz said that there were no restrictions within God’s expansive realm except the ones that “love imposed”. God therefore wants love and harmony in his realm and the kind of order that existed at the beginning. But we, as human beings, could and can freely choose and we can decide unhindered against any of it at any time. God didn’t know that we, his children, would break out and rebel. He is not omniscient in regards to the future! If he were omniscient, everything would be predetermined and the future would not be free and thereby, our will would also not be free. God is naturally able to predict, based on the actions of his children, the consequences well into the future in spite of this. (We human beings also possess the gift of foresight, even if only to a more restricted degree.) Günther Schwarz said that evening that: Injustice, violence and wars are naturally against God’s will. But God affords us the freedom so that we can follow our path to the end and so we can recognise in the process where our separation from Him and His order takes us. Our self-inflicted suffering leads us to insights, it educates us and teaches us. Taking this path would bring us one step at a time closer to our eternal homeland. If God were almighty in dealing with us, He would be responsible for everything that happens here on Earth. But as we have our free will, something he doesn’t infringe upon, we, as human beings, bear the responsibility ourselves.

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