God didn’t do it, we did, God didn’t stop it because He bestowed us the gift of free will with its tremendous responsibility.

If we say ‘God should stop wars’, we are also saying that God should remove our free will and freedom and turn us into human robots. ‘Free will’ is a great privilege and has not only a great responsibility but also great risks. God’s plan was a risk, but it has great rewards also. God could have done it a different way but He chose this way.

This life was not supposed to be a test but in many ways, it now appears to be like one.

We were to have lived a life with God – where everything was perfect, but when man disobeyed God, that action destroyed God’s plan for us by making us incompatible with God and heaven.

God then had to put into action some other plan, as a way to restore the chance of us having a life with God and forever. This fresh plan is not an easy plan for anyone, we have to work at it; the decision is your decision.

Even though God effected this next plan, He didn’t take out our free choice – we can reject or accept Him.

In this manner we are not robots – we can make the choice to love and serve Him or not, just as any man and woman can make the choice to love each other and get married or not. By this, God knows and we know, if we have chosen Him or not while we live on earth. At the end, when we then stand before God in the great courtroom, to answer for our life, it will be our choice that determines if we live with Him forever or otherwise.

Certainly, God would desire friends who choose to be with Him as opposed to robots programmed to do and say everything that was required of them.

With any great privilege, there comes with it great responsibility Writes Neil Baulch of the Bible Timeline site in part six in his series on what is a christian?

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