Why God Allows Choice

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Why God allows choice, and we have known and believe the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. First John four sixteen. It is absolutely clear that God is love.

Therefore, many have suggested that such a unilateral love, as is cited in the above text, would require that God eliminate any judgment for disobedience to His commands, or that He creates such a condition that all humanity would naturally love God as part of their basic personality. The apparent conflict is often repeated in the false logic: If God loves the world and is all powerful, why would He allow evil? Simply put, the answer is this: God is love. God loves mankind. Love requires that a choice be made.

Choice allows for the possible rejection of God's unilateral love. God therefore created humanity with the ability to positively respond to His love, or consciously reject His love. The simple truth of the scriptures is inescapable. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleaneth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. God allows for the possibility of evil so that human love can exist.

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