Free Will

JUNE 10 2026  Free Will

Thus the human race was created, placed in a perfect world, supplied with everything for their happiness, including the possibility of free choice. This perfect world was known as the garden of Eden. God, in his infinite wisdom, placed before man the choice between life, existence with him, and death, existence without him. Existence apart from God produces exactly what it can only produce--death. God is life. Any step away from God is death. Yet man, unwilling to trust God for their happiness, reached out in exercise of free will and chose death. Eve willingly disobeyed God in order to satisfy her own desire for knowledge and wisdom apart from God. Now, after thousands of years of rebellion against God, we find ourselves living in a corrupted world, awash in death, decay, weakness, disease, ignorance, poverty and hate. God warned Adam and Eve, and he continues to warn us of the consequences of disobedience. Yet we behave like we are going to be the first to get away with rebellion and not die. We have gone mad, truly insane! This is where the exercise of our free will apart from God has taken us. Why do we continue to choose not to trust or believe God's word? Do we think we are stronger than he?

God saw free will as good, so it must be good. We don't have any other God, or any other world to choose from. Can you even comprehend existence apart from the ability to think and choose? When Eve listened to satan, God suffered the hurt of a wounded heart, because he knew she would die. But since God is perfect, he already had a solution for the problem of death. He had already provided in the plan of creation for our possible disobedience.

-- excerpt from my book Kingdom Chronicles