GOD'S Generousity And Man's Use Of Freewill: A Reflection on the Gifts We’ve Been Given and the Choices We Make
Man is brilliant, but his brilliance is not his own. It is the gift of a generous GOD who blessed him with an intelligent mind and a richly resourced world. Every invention; cars, airplanes, sewing machines, computers... is only possible because GOD provided both the raw materials and the capacity to transform them. Man doesn't create something out of nothing, he only works with what GOD has already given. But here lies the twist: GOD also gave man freewill and freewill is a double-edged sword. It can be used in alignment with GOD’s wisdom, or it can be twisted into rebellion. Today, man is increasingly choosing rebellion. We see it in the manipulation of food through genetically modified organisms (GMO); where the purity of GOD’s natural order is compromised for profit and control. We see it in cloning; where man dares to replicate what only GOD can create, forgetting that life belongs solely to HIM. We see it in the creation of weapons of mass destruction; tools designed not to...