God? Faith?

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then why did he make us with free will? He knew we were going to fail when he chose to give us the option of thinking for ourselves. I guess I can't (at this time) get over the fact that he CHOSE to make us so that we were destined to fail.

**********disclaimer: I do not have the answers***********

this is just my perspective. Let's pretend, you woke up the morning of your wedding and the happiness fairy was standing there and told you it was time for The Choice. She goes on to explain that before you get married you have the choice of giving your husband the ability to choose to love you, honor you, and remain committed to your for the rest of your lives or you could make life a lot less stressful and remove that pesky free will from his make up. He has no choice but to love, honor, and remain committed to you. It would actually be impossible for him to let you down or disappoint you in any way.

It is a hard choice, when you dig a little beneath the surface.

Plan B) You are guaranteed that he will treat you as the queen you are... but if he has no other choice is it as special? Are his actions that honor you as meaningful when you have a few years to realize, it is impossible for him to do anything else?

Plan A) Free Will. You know him very well and you know he will disappoint you in your marriage. He will, at times, say unkind things to you, he will sometimes be thoughtless in his actions, he will often be self centered. There is even a possibility that he might decide his secretary is more appealing than you, at least for a day - inother words he will fail you (and himself)

BUT - and here's the big but, when he does love you and honor you, and treat you as he should - it is infinitely more valuable to you because it is his choice to do so. There is no coercion (sp). He had the ability to go the other direction, but because of his love and commitment to you he has honored you.

anyway - that's my perspective. obedience and good behaviour is meaningless if there were no other option.