He created mankind with free will because no one can truly love without free will. The downside of free will Is the choice to also choose wrong. And so we chose wrong, yet He still gives us all opportunity to choose love and to choose Him, The hallmark of His example of love is choosing to take our Deserved death Upon his shoulders so that we might be saved through Him.
There are lots of stories of gods throughout the ages, but how many of those gods sacrifice their own life for the undeserving mortals He created, so that they may know Him and have a chance to live with him eternally. It’s a story of love from beginning to end.
A key difference being that I never once mentioned that humans are inherently good. I think man is flawed and sinned thus needing saving , thus needing mercy and thus needing grace. We are given the free will to repent from our sinful nature and choose Christ our Lord and Saviour who takes away the sin of the world.
The history of the church is filled with as many flaws as anything so I would be careful using the term heresy all Willy nilly without any Biblical references.
He created mankind with free will because no one can truly love without free will. The downside of free will Is the choice to also choose wrong. And so we chose wrong, yet He still gives us all opportunity to choose love and to choose Him, The hallmark of His example of love is choosing to take our Deserved death Upon his shoulders so that we might be saved through Him.
There are lots of stories of gods throughout the ages, but how many of those gods sacrifice their own life for the undeserving mortals He created, so that they may know Him and have a chance to live with him eternally. It’s a story of love from beginning to end.
This is borderline Pelagianism. It was condemned as heretical 1600 years ago.
A key difference being that I never once mentioned that humans are inherently good. I think man is flawed and sinned thus needing saving , thus needing mercy and thus needing grace. We are given the free will to repent from our sinful nature and choose Christ our Lord and Saviour who takes away the sin of the world.
The history of the church is filled with as many flaws as anything so I would be careful using the term heresy all Willy nilly without any Biblical references.