I think that right through Scriptures, God’s intention is to humanize humanity, to give you a heart of flesh rather than stone. The thing that God does that is so striking is stand apart. He wishes people would — for their own sake, for the sake of the other people, whom he also loves — he wishes they would not kill and not steal and so on. But God leaves them free. He tells them what he considers good and right. But they always have the freedom to transgress, if that’s what they choose to do. And I think that can be understood as God’s loyalty to the idea of their being human, being free, acting creatures. And it’s in the way they are able to act on their own, even in departing from what God wills for them, they have one of the qualities of God: freedom. I think that’s very profound.
--Marilynne Robinson
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