Sorry linear, this makes little sense. To give free will and allow for a choice is not rolling a dice. Do you think we roll a dice to see if we should be good or bad? Or do you think we make a decision with the God given mind/intellect/conscience/knowledge? Rolling a dice and relying on the outcome of that/chance to decide for me cannot even be compared with using my mind/reason and faith.
Perhaps saying that God is relying on chance is overstating it a bit. Since God is omniscient, He knew the decisions that nonbelievers would make. With that knowledge, He made them anyway, to be sent to Hell. OK.
I don't believe God rolls any "dice", but I do believe that He allows for situations to develop according to decisions we have made, OR others have made. That outcome maybe a very tough lesson and suffering for those who deserve it, or a grave suffering for those who do not. Perhaps we are talking about the same thing, but using an analogy neither of agree upon?
Perhaps, but if God is not relying on chance then he is purposely making people to fuel the lake of fire.
He knows exactly what level of evidence will convince each person of His existence and the need to follow Christ, but He doesn't produce that evidence for those people when He could easily do so.
The Bible says that God wants all to come to Him and it also states that most will not.
If God is not allowing chance to work in this most crucial of decisions then He must want people to burn in Hell despite what the Bible says are His desires.
God doesn't abandon any of His creatures and is always with us, but life is a test of faith and often a tough journey for most of us.
How is it a test of the faith of a Muslim to allow him to continue believing in Islam? Testing of faith only occurs after a conversion.
And aside from the dice analogy/chance, I agree with your post. To allow choice is not rolling a dice. For us to choose either Heaven or Hell is not God rolling a dice and allowing the dice to choose or us to rely on chance to decide our "destiny". Our minds are not dice, our souls are not dice. They were intentionally and wonderfully made! It comes down to an intentional decision on our part that decides our destiny, not a chance roll of a dice. And I cannot imagine why you would assume a God that would do this? Why would He die a cruel death on a cross as a sacrifice for us, if it was all about dice and chance? This invitation requires an intentional decision to decide for Christ or against Him. No chance involved here.
Requiring a decision without providing evidence of the choices is still making the person guess that one decision is better than another.
And that is what God has given to each one of His creatures. It is a great pity that evil entered the world to test us and tempt us, but God hasn't simply left it to a game of dice.
You write as if it was a surprise to God that "evil entered the world".
He has given us an instruction manual, a conscience, a mind and faith (should we ask for it) and the ability to pray and trust and walk the walk (whether our lives are short, or long). The Holy Spirit is involved in each one of our lives and the intercession of God occurs daily, perhaps without notice, though at times it's clear. There are miraculous occurances and interventions and so-called coincidences Linear that have and do occur. This is what makes our God a personal God, instead of a god that sits back indifferently and plays with dice and watches us do the same. THe dice decides then eh? Not us?
If that's the case, then why bother making a decision for God, since chance decides.
On second thought, you're right! God doesn't take chances with our souls, their eternal destiny is decided when He forms them at our conception. I'm just glad He wanted mine to go to heaven. Now I don't have to feel sorry for all those people that don't make it...it was God's will.
Sorry, but I don't roll any dice in regards to my life with God. I make decisions and those decisions will affect my state in eternity. Whether I choose to sin, or choose to reject it again is up to me. No dice involved there.
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