”For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9

I have yet to find a loving parent who would present to a child a choice between two alternatives, one of which would be extremely harmful (life terminating). Yet that is exactly what God did in presenting to Adam a choice concerning the fruit of a certain tree – ‘eat that fruit and die!’ (Gen 2:17). A wrong decision would result in physical and spiritual death, the former eventually and the latter immediately.

Concerning ‘how’ men are saved and find eternal life we come up with and love the notion that salvation ‘depends’ on human decision, as if God sent His Son to die to only to make salvation possible, when to consider such a thing, for human parents, would be entirely loathsome if not unimaginable. I actually asked a man recently if he, as a parent, would kill his child to make something, anything, merely possible and he glibly answered, “Of course not, but God did!

Concerning repentance for sin and belief unto salvation, some of us are fond of saying that God would never command us to do what we, in our own strength, are unable to do (Mark 1:14-15). I have yet however, to find any human parents who has not done exactly that, in order to demonstrate to a child, that child’s utter dependence upon them.

It seems that when it suits us, we let God be God, but when we would rather He be like us, we say He is like us. Why do we do that?

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” – Eph 2:8-9

The best I can come up with is that we think we must understand a great mystery, or we just love to boast. It would do me well to remember Abraham’s words when, while bargaining for Sodom, he said:

“Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.” – Gen 18:27