A Ransomed Life

For the sake of argument – let’s say that things are how they are BECAUSE He loves us and is committed to us; wanting our very best.  Then let’s say, that for that (our very best) to ever have a chance of happening, He knows that He must create us with the ability and authority to make our own choices; each choice with its own consequences.  And that those choices and their consequences have been cascading through the six thousand or so years since the beginning (using, for argument’s sake, the Bible’s internal chronology as our guide) so that the cumulative effect of bad choices (where “bad” is defined by Him) can be understood to have influenced all of the “mess” that begs the question in the first place.   And (if I may) let’s say that, if we stop and truly look around we can also see the cumulative effect of “good” choices revealing the touch of His hand and His mercy and even shadows and ripples and whispers of His justice and righteousness.    If you were to grant me all of that, I would suggest, that my real point was missed.    My real point:  That, “we overlook His commitment to us”, is validated by the very fact that you or I (or all those who have been, over that same six thousand years of time, making both good and bad choices) have asked, or, even now, can ask a question that challenges God’s morality.  That we possess the mental and emotional capacity to ask such an audacious question (granting, for the sake of argument, all that you have granted me) is proof of His caring.  I would go so far as to say: it is the absolute and undeniable proof.   As a matter of logic, the only refutation I can see, is for a person to accept the unprovable position that mankind has arrived in the current state of consciousness that allows us to ask that question by some astronomically improbable set of circumstances over a requisite period of nearly immeasurable time; all the while ignoring (or somehow overcoming) the entropy and decay that those two requirements (nearly immeasurable time and grossly, improbable sequencing) establish as the boundaries for the level of faith (the unprovable position) required.  (I include “entropy” because if our existence is not a closed system, then the argument shifts even more dramatically away from observable evidence.  Even quantum mechanics, though “extending” the universe, still maintains its closed, though vast, condition.)    If that kind of faith is the counterpose to my “argument”, then I will leave you with your faith and expect that we will never change the other’s opinion.   For those remaining, who still allow my argument, I will reiterate it.  That we can pose the question (and by “can” I mean that we have both the mental capacity and power and the freedom/authority to do so) is evidence of a Creator Who cares for and is committed to us.    My basis for that statement is a re-cognition (a fresh mental awareness or “cognizing”) of the idea that the Creator with the Will and Desire to create a creation that could formulate such a self-conscious query, would also be the Creator Who would most certainly desire that the creation pursue both the “But what about…?” question and its answer.  And having made such a creature (Man): for God to not care for Man and make it possible for Man to benefit from the very consciousness with which Man was formed, defies the very logic of the creature – and therefore would not be possible.   And yet…here we are.  Looking around our world (or at least that part of it that we can see) and questioning the “why” and “how” of the “what” that we do see – and some of those other questions that we can only imagine. In