Thoughts about free will

 Now, I want to go back to the original sin (although I'm not sure if I fully understand it), but I think original sin is rebelling against God, in other words, arrogance, but how?


How can we humans rebel against God?


I wonder if we can do that.


In the Bible (especially the Old Testament), God often sends prophets to the people one after another. And every time, the people don't listen to the words of the prophet. It's the same thing over and over again, to the point where you wonder, "How many times is the same thing going to happen?"


But I've always been curious about how the Bible expresses it when the people rebel against the prophets.


"God made them stubborn." ( from Japanese translation of Bible)


Isn't it always expressed like this? For God, it's the causative form, and for the people, it's the passive form. In other words, if it was God's will to send the prophets, then isn't it also God's will for the people to rebel? God made the people rebel. In the end


God's own doing!?


In other words, doesn't this mean that humans have no free will?


I think this is what Luther said too.


Even if we appear to have free will, in reality we are just being tossed around in the palm of Kannon's hand or the palm of Buddha's hand. This is a common image in Buddhism, isn't it?


Of course we are. We live in God. We live in Buddha.


I think Ramakrishna also said that the universe is in God's womb.


No matter how far we go, we cannot escape God's will.


This is despair for evil, but good news for us.


Because God is love.


We cannot escape God's love


And Buddha is mercy


We cannot escape the mercy of Buddha


At this rate, there is no way we won't be saved in the end


Guided by love and mercy

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