Something struck me when I was re-reading my last post. It isn’t a full thought–not really, but it was profound enough that I though it deserved a post–maybe one that I can expand on later.

If God is always right and disagreement with Him is sin, then why does He value our freedom to disagree (both with Him and each other) so very, very much?

And the parallel question… If condemnation comes upon those who sin against God, and God values our ability to disagree with him, then a paradox has been reached and I have evicted myself (or at least my thought) from reality.

Further complicating the picture, if God loves us all perfectly, then how can He destroy those among us whom He calls evil?

Obviously there are errors in all of those statements.

The first question assumes that disagreement with God is sin.
The second question assumes both that the reason God condemns people is that they disagree with him and that condemnation is somehow a negative thing.
The third question assumes that it is not loving to destroy something.

At some point I would love to explore these thoughts further, but what struck me just now was the re-realization that there is a great synergy between everything God has created and does. God is the ultimate pattern-thinker, and He has incorporated principles into the way He created the world that are so simple, so compact, that we cannot express or understand them, yet so expansive that they serve as structure for all of creation.

This is what I call a Truth.