Did God have a choice?

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Bro. Robbins

There's no reason that God HAD to do it the way He did unless He Himself established principles that must be followed through, as He will not violate His own rules.

Think about when man sinned against Him though. Man made the same decision the angels had made. To disobey and rebel. With the angels He chose to cast them away. No road to redemption.

But God decided His love for us would supercede His Judgement. And all through the Old Testament we see God pursuing man, so that He might redeem man back to Himself... and then in the NT He takes on flesh so that once and for all He will provide Himself as the lamb for the world.

He didn't have to do any of that. Could have said, man failed, I'll go create something else. But somehow, he looked at what dirt and His breath had created, and thought it worthy for a second chance.

Do you think it's fair, how it's set up? The penalty for having any sin is death and torment? Do we deserve to be punished for something isn't our fault -- that it is impossible to be perfect? And the way to avoid our punishment is subject to debate, and we have to guess which way is right?

Could it have been set up to be more fair?