Why Jesus HAD to Die | Sam Shamoun

Yep. I understand what you're saying. Saying if God created us and it was good, then why create us with the propensity to make choices that will be bad? >> Yeah. Basically, >> wouldn't that make him responsible? Well, remember it goes back to the first point. If God created you as an robot where all you could do is

make right choices, and then that means he's not truly creating you out of love. Because remember what I said about God creating in love. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So if God is pure love, which the Bible says he is, and he created out of love, not of necessity, but he created for the purpose of having creatures

experience his infinite love because that's what love does. See, the nature of love is to give itself away to another. This is what the Bible says. When Jesus defines love, it's always action directed to another. meaning love your neighbor as yourself. No greater love than this. When a man will lay his life down for his friends. So notice God

defines love as not loving yourself but loving others and giving yourself away to another. So how the Bible defines it, right? So if God is the source of love and he tells you this is what love is to give yourself away to another that out of love for another you do all you can to

benefit the other to make the other happy. So if God is love and he creates the world in love that means he's creating a world in order to give himself away to others in love. But if he creates people and forces them to respond, then that's divine rape, isn't it? >> Yeah, that's correct.

>> Sounds a lot like Islam, though. >> Say it again. >> Sounds a lot like Islam. >> Yeah, it's Allah. He predestined everything. But that's what I'm trying to get at. If you remember our first conversation, go back listen to it, but I'm going to rem repeat it. So that means God now creates out of love. But