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Because God wants offspring that will trust in Him, not because they are made that way and have no choice. God won nothing if he just makes robots.I think the mindset in the bible is the same as American way of thinking. WE have a choice and a responsibility. We can blow it or reach greater heights. The rest of the nations would rather do the opposite, and I'm sure would just love a God that made everything peaches and cream. One big mass of mediocrity.Have to say one thing about God---- there's no midpoint with Him---- it's all or nothing. That's truly a passionate God I can accept.
But Tim, you were, if I read what you said correctly, trying to say that "clones" of God, to use the term, are essentially people who retain free will yet are like Christ to the point where they will never choose to sin. But then I asked you why He didn't just create us like that in the first place, and you point to how God wants us to have free will instead of being robots. This is a contradiction in terms.Right now, we are humans with free will, and our flesh causes us to sin.You are saying that in heaven, we will still have free will, but we will be like Christ and so we will just never choose to sin.My question is, if we can still have free will and yet never sin, why did God create us like we are now in the first place? Adam cannot have been a "clone" as you put it, since if he was, then he would never have sinned. So therefore, he must have been "neutral," able to either obey or disobey. But if we are eventually going to become like Christ where we will never sin but always just choose to obey Him, then why could He not have done that in the first place, saved Himself and us a whole lot of heartache, pain, and death, and created us with free will yet never choosing to sin because of our "Christ-likeness"?