“The Cost Of Choice”

Thursday, January 31, 2013

If our population is growing at such an expansive rate, why does God let so many more people die spiritually?  He knows the gospel will not reach all those people, so why bring more to the world?

Sincerely,
So Many Lost

Dear So Many Lost,

God gives us the freedom to choose to live or choose to sin; the fact that we all choose to sin is not His fault (Rom 5:12).  Your question comes down to one issue – if God knew that so many people would do bad things, how come we are still to blame?  God knows our days upon this earth, but He also gives us the freewill to shape various aspects of the world that we live in.  Just because God has knowledge of how you and I will behave does not mean that He causes our behavior to happen in a certain way.  Foreknowledge is not the same as causation.  A doctor may know that a patient is going to die of cancer, but that doesn’t mean the doctor gave them cancer.  God gives mankind the freedom to make decisions, but He also has the wisdom to know how those choices will affect the future (Job 12:13).  God, having the wisdom to see that freewill also meant that people would have the freedom to choose bad things, doesn’t mean that He is to blame for our choices.  Furthermore, God didn’t just sit idly with His foreknowledge.  God planned before the foundation of the world to save us by sending His own Son to die (Eph. 1:3-4).  Even though He isn’t responsible for our choices, God sent the perfect cure.  A cure that can be found in the Bible – a book that is available in over 2,400 languages and distributed by the billions across the globe.

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