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Jesus Is All About Free Will

// October 3rd, 2007 // General

My conclusions about Christ, based on writings about him that I’ve been reading for the last 20-odd years, are that He created the human race with free will built right in. He did that in order that the love he wanted to share with us would be genuine and not forced (force being evidently incompatible with love). He seems to be the type of person who is all about love, learning, relationships, growth, and creativity, and not so interested in force, violence, death, destruction, or “power trips.” Oddly enough, though, very many who look into what he is all about don’t “get” him.

It seems that the human race was not the only creation of his; in fact a previously created species, which also had free will, has apparently fallen prey to the weakness that free will itself contains, namely power-addiction. A free moral agent can by the nature of free will obviously choose to do whatever it wants at any time; given that possibility, it was a statistical inevitability that a created agent would at some point make a self-destructive choice.

I’m sure he knew about the risks and weaknesses of free will before he let creatures loose in the universe who were vulnerable to the abuse of choice; at any rate, he seems to have had a contingency plan all along for healing those whose addiction to self-aggrandizement is not too far gone as to be beyond help. Incredibly, he has never forced anyone of his creatures human or animal to do anything against their will. He has chosen instead to give humans a very powerful set of sensory tools, a very high-order computational organic super-computer brain, and a recorded history of events to compare their current on-going experiences against.

Unfortunately, the first owners of human DNA totally screwed up the strains available to us by making early on some very self-destructive choices. And so here and now so many generations down the pipeline, our senses and brains have all they can manage to not be distracted by the constant chaos of our environment, which through unfortunate choices we ourselves are seriously damaging. It’s hard to think! Let alone make any kind of meaningful sense out of the crazy stuff that a world full of free moral agents all power-addicted and self-destructive and creative, and silly, and capable of the most beautiful profound statements about life, the universe, and everything!

He has entered into the human reality, the human home planet, even the human skin. He has had it all recorded with a pretty high degree of accuracy. And he has carefully availed himself of key opportunities to personally speak to various writers he hand-picked for their ability to relate to their readers. I think he was careful about that because he is so not about using force, and yet when he shows up the impact upon their senses he makes really blows them away. It must be mind-blowing to hear a word from God, especially when he utters some profound truth about yourself.

Given all of that, what are you going to do with Jesus?