Hi Friend!
I think you're asking the most difficult question that naturally follows from what I wrote: Why is human free will so important to God that He permits us to misuse it even when the consequences for other people can be horrific?
I don't believe the rights of the perpetrators at Auschwitz were more important to God than the rights of their victims. Quite the opposite. Their actions were monstrous violations of the freedom and dignity God intended every person to possess.
But free will would not really be free will if God permitted only the choices He approved of.
If every time one human being attempted to seriously harm another, God intervened—stopped the bullet, made the weapon fail, prevented the prison door from closing, or somehow made the intended action physically impossible—then we could desire evil, but we could never actually choose and enact it. God would ultimately be controlling human behavior rather than allowing us to determine what kind of people we become.
And I think that last point is important.
From my perspective, God didn’t give us free will because the freedom of a murderer is more valuable than the life of his victim. He gave us free will because our souls must be capable of genuinely choosing LOVE if we are ever to become loving beings. Love that cannot be refused is not freely given love.
Unfortunately, the same freedom that allows someone to sacrifice his own life for another also allows someone to take another's life. Auschwitz demonstrates how unimaginably far collective human free will can descend when hatred, fear, power, prejudice, and obedience to evil overwhelm the soul's impulse toward love.
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That certainly doesn't make Auschwitz acceptable, nor does saying "free will" make its horror disappear. It attempts to explain why God did not create us as beings whose choices He continually overrides.
And there is another part of the picture that is important to me. I don’t believe physical death is the end of the victim, nor that the perpetrator escapes the consequences of what he has done. Both continue as souls in the spirit world, and the Law of Compensation ultimately requires every soul to confront the disharmony it has created — or become cleansed and transformed through prayer for God’s Love.
So I don't see God choosing the perpetrator over the victim. I see God allowing all of His children the same extraordinary—and sometimes terrifying—gift of free will, while continually inviting us to use that freedom to choose Love.
You’ve raised a very good question, my friend. Thank you for making me think more deeply about it.
Love and blessings for your day, dear brother. 🌿🙏
Pray for the blessing of the Father’s Love to enter your soul. Ask for this Gift. 💖😌💖
Even the vilest sinner can pray for God’s Love and receive It, both in this world and the next.
“...For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor spirits nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor heaven nor hell, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the Love of God…” — Paul, Romans 8:38-39
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