I’ve been thinking about this question in a different form: what your “three wishes” were — that is, your most important and deepest desires. But I think that the questions posed to me is more to the point and causes more introspection.
What two things do you think the World needs most?
My response: God: His providence, love, grace, the Cross. Sin: The misery of life without God to make us turn around to the thing we need most.[1]
Discuss. Argue my response or post your own.
[1]Let’s ignore for the sake of this post the idea of us needing sin in a perfect world and it’s relation to needing God and free will.
1 Comment
September 19, 2009 at 3:48 am
Hmm, I think it’s only now in a postlapsarian (after-the-Fall) state that we need misery itself to drive us to despair of misery and run to God. Adam’s mere existence, after all, was by grace, and we expect that from the state of innocence the race of Adam would have been led to maturity, just as all trees grow and all children grow up.
Adam simply chose a different experience, one that has condemned us all until Christ. My point is that God isn’t dependent on the existence of sin and death and injustice and wretchedness to show his own glory.
Of course, I can’t contest the need for God!