text: free will. if you love someone, would you let them get hurt? i want to start out in saying that i beleve in god. i find myself being shunned by other christians because of some things in the bible that  i cant quite get grip on and it makes me wonder if i should even voice by questions. however i will, because its important to me.  free will. if i had children i would of course, love them unconditionaly, i would not give them choices in whitch one would let them burn in hell iterenally. if i had the power as does god i would let them have idivisuality but yetr be born with the knowlage of right and wrong.  i definatly wouuld not put two electric wires in front of them one with 1000volts and the other with none and give them the free will to grab either one. i would love them and want to protect them, preventing someone from harm does not make them clones. but god gives us choice a and  b heavan or hell. is he not letting one of his love ones preventably fall to harm? would you allow harm to your child. is this right? what am i missunderstanding? i am a christian too and i understand where you are coming from.  the fact is that there can be no true love is there is no free will. how can you claim to love your wife if she cannot decide on her own what to do. she has to ask for permission before she can do anything, that won't be true love. the kind of relationship god has with us as his children is different from the kind we have with our own, remember the bible says if we who are evil know how to give good gift to our children, how much more will god give good things to those who ask him.  if you had the power god has and his wisdom, i am sure you will have done the same. by the time you have stopped about 1 million people from doing what they want to do, even though you know its the best for them, they would label you a bully and a wicked god. if you think well about it, it is wiser to allow people decide what they want to do. they won't have the luxury of blaming you. look at the case of adam for example, he blamed god for giving him eve, that's why god now allows us to choose. i would like to talk to you more because it would not be possible on this forum, if you are interested, send me a message. my id is tolumur@yahoo.com