I want to read different ideas. Please leave your comment I am working on something. The question is : “How to reconcile the theology of an All Knowing and All Loving God, with the idea of Freewill?”
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The difficulty is: how can God’s decree of election be harmonized with human free agency? If God has for ordained all that comes to pass, including the eternal destiny of all human beings, how can we ourselves be free agents and how can we be responsible for what we do? We cannot solve this problem, for it is a mystery. We can only a firm that the Bible plainly teaches both God’s sovereign foreordination and human freedom and responsibility. To reject either of these Bible truths is to reject the clear teaching of the word of God and to become involved in greater theological difficulties.
The question, “Is it not unfair for God to elect one person to a eternal life while he passes by another?”
This objection is based on the assumption that God is under an obligation to treat all men with equal favor, and to do for all whatever he does for any. The Bibles answer to this objection is found in Romans 9:20-21.
The objection really involves a denial of the sovereignty of God, for it assumes that God is responsible to the human race for his decisions, or else that there is some higher law or power to which God is responsible and by which he must be judged. The truth is that
(A) God is sovereign and is responsible to no one but himself for his actions;
(B) God is under no obligation to elect anyone to eternal life; it would have been perfectly just for him to leave all mankind to perish in their sins;
(C) if God elects some to eternal life, he is under no obligation to elect all; for his electing of some is a matter of grace, and therefore cannot be claimed as a right by any that are “passed by.” It is quite true that the Bible represents God as dealing with men unequally, that is, giving to some what he withholds from others; but this is not “unfair” because there is no injustice involved. No one has any basis for a claim that God has treated him unjustly.Many people complain that the doctrine of election is unfair and deny it because they think fairness demands that we all have the ability to believe the gospel. But if we are sinners, the one thing God would be fair to do would be to condemn us all to hell. It is only by grace that anyone is rescued from eternal damnation, so we should be grateful that the Lord is sovereign in salvation. Let us never fail to give Him thanks for choosing to redeem the undeserving.
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