Re: Pearl's "plant your tree in the midst of the garden"
If obedience were our only option it wouldn't be obedience. He wanted us to choose to love him and obey him.
If I made a robot that I programmed to wake me up every morning with a warm cup of coffee and tell me how much it loves me, how wonderful I am and how beautiful I look today, it doesn't matter - it's a robot. It was programmed to do that and it's doing that because that's all it can do - it isn't genuine. It doesn't really love me because it's not choosing to love me, it doesn't have any other options.
God gave Adam and Eve only one thing that they couldn't do. If he hadn't given them the opportunity to potentially disobey, it wouldn't matter how much they obeyed - it wouldn't have been genuine.
I love the people I love because I have made a decision to love them. If I didn't have a choice, it wouldn't be real love.
THAT BEING SAID: The Pearls are taking this whole thing way out of context. That's extreme and not fitting with the inconceivable love God has for his children. He doesn't want us to fail - He wants us to really love Him.
Last edited by Autumn; 02-11-2010 at 07:03 PM.
|