In the holidays we've been watching a few things including Battlestar Galactica. Great stories showing the power of love and loyalty among humans. (Well they look and sound like humans!)
It occurred to me that this story illustrates the risk God took when he gave His creatures free will. The scenario is rebellion by the robots that humanity had created to be of service to them. (Like I, Robot a year or two ago but on a cataclysmic scale.) The robots have evolved and developed an attack strategy such that there are only a few thousand humans left fleeing across the galaxy looking for somewhere to hide.
In our reality, firstly God risked rebellion by the angels. Then he risked rebellion by mankind and he risked mankind being infected by the rebellion by the angels. His intention was to create beings with personality who could enter into relationship with Him. I think real relationship between persons can only exist if there is free will. Maybe this point starts a step earlier, real personality can only exist if it has free will.
But it seems a huge price is being paid to make it possible for us to have an existence in which we can be in relationship with God. Firstly, the whole rebellion by the angel who became Satan and those who have fallen with him. Secondly, the fall of mankind and the chaos and suffering that has caused through hundreds of generations. In the One Year Bible Blog we are just at the beginning of that story.
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