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Let's say God was already here as Jesus. Even if half the stories are true that he healed the sick, fed the multitudes, turned water into wine, walked on water and raised the dead WHY did he let them kill him? Why didn't he just force them to love Him without them knowing it? Surely it wouldn't have been too difficult for someone who performed all those miracles.
How can free will be considered 'free' if eternal consequences exist? That's akin to saying a hostage with a pistol to his head is a completely free man, except that the consequences with God are worse by a factor of eternity. That doesn't seem to very logically coherent, "I'm going to force you to believe in me, or else I'm going destroy you!" And why belief in him? Why would God care if someone accepted him as real or not? You are the ultimate Creator of the universe, and there are these puny animals who have been in existence for 50,000 years out of 13.8 billion years and you care what each and every single one of them thinks!? Including the 1.2 billion Indians (non-Christians)? From God's perspective, that just doesn't make sense.God gave man free will ... and he made them in his own image i.e. as free agents ... Had he done what you propose he would be going against his own decree.
But from a human perspective,
You see that your fellow man does stupid and terrible things. Wouldn't that be great if there was an all-good, all-present and all-powerful person? The opposite of what human currently are? Wait, you're telling me that such a person exists? That this person raised a dead child!? Well, that certainly would help put an end to those stupid and terrible things humans do. Especially if this godly fellow cared about what each and every person thought and did, and then meted out personal justice accordingly. From an all-powerful God's perspective, that doesn't make a lick of sense, but from mine, it does!
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