Yes, it would accept the "honor" (e.g. of the position). But NO, it would not do the ACT.sentipente;47353205 said:
It would instead do as Moses did ...
Exodus 32:31-32:
31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
And it would gather the rest of the 144,000 who have been prepared by the Spirit of God to do likewise, and at that point God would reveal to those still ignorant (i.e., unknowing -- moriah does not use this word as a pejorative) why the only "free will" in the universe bes His, and how that will bes unwilling that any should perish, and make them to see the sound reason in His actual (not presumptuously reputed) "strange act" (strange = what we do NOT expect) . To wit, that if we expect God to violate the obvious "free will choice" of the wicked to continue to live in order to execute His "justice" (or what the blind leading the blind mistake for it anyway) then surely it makes more sense -- and bes more in keeping with HIS character of Love -- for Him to violate it in a way that causes them to live truly. 31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
In other words, no one CHOOSES to go to hell and be burned up forever. We CLAIM they make that "choice" as a kind of "penalizing default" for the actual choices they have made and do make -- the choice to lead lives of sin and self-serving apart from God -- but that does not mean they CHOOSE to get burned up any more than a toddler running into the street after a ball or a shiny penny CHOOSES to get struck by a car and killed. Yet we then claim that for God to NOT burn them up and destroy them would amount to God "violating" their "free will" somehow (e.g. by presumably making them into robots who live by His will contrary to their own, which bes the only alternative our myopic tunnel vision seems capable of conceiving -- and that would be whose limitation? surely not God's!!) We have put great stock in the notion that "God would never violate human free will" but we do not stop to weigh out the ramifications of this blasted dogma. God would not make a rock too heavy for Himself to lift even if He theoretically can do so. And our ludicrous notions about human "free will" have become that rock, at least for us. We make human "free will" sovereign, the final determining factor of anything, as if Christ had never lived a sinless life, died on the Cross, or been resurrected from the dead to live and make intercession for us.
If God, whom we claim would never ever violate human free will so as to "make" humans love Him and volunteer to serve Him, bes willing at the end to VIOLATE human free will so as to DESTROY those who do not voluntarily love and serve Him, what sense does that make in terms of His character of Love? Would it not be MORE loving, since He intends to totally DISREGARD AND VIOLATE their "free wills" ANYWAY in order to execute His "justice" (as the blind perceive it to be) in DESTROYING them, if He instead RECYCLED them and remade them into what they'd been meant to be from the start had sin never entered the world? What harm could possibly come of that? For starters, they WOULD still be destroyed, because everything they had been -- sinners living lives of sin apart from God -- would be DEAD AND GONE FOR ALL ETERNITY. So the DESTRUCTION being accomplished would NOT be compromised in the SLIGHTEST. And yet, by HIS decree and will, they would LIVE, yet not them, but as Christ living in them, the same as the rest of us who have sought this blessing during these dark days in the 3-d realm.
Whose will continues to reign supreme? God's. His bes truly the only FREE will in the universe, for NONE of us can, by a word or a glance, alter the laws of physics or the laws of function built into the fabric of the universe. Only the table cracking under the sacrifice (Narnia reference, sorry) can cause death to work backwards -- and that table cracks on the cross of Calvary, and it cracks for everyone whether we believe it or not, see it or not, agree with it or not, embrace it or not.
Why humans cannot NOW see this, it cannot say for certain. But it does have a clue ...
2 Cor 3:12-17
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
... and it knows that all WILL see it, if not now, then in the day He performs it -- the day EVERY knee shall bow (voluntarily, having been given the grace to do so by Him, as we even now) and EVERY tongue confess (voluntarily, having been given the grace to do so by Him, as we even now) that Jesus Christ bes Lord, to the glory of God the Father.12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But if they do not understand this speech, how can they understand His words?
