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Why should we have the free choice between belief and disbelief in God?
We are born, found ourselves in a certain form and shape, we grow up and age and have no choice in it. Then, we have to exit at our death. This life-cycle is imposed on everyone. Unless you are immortal then you undergo such a temporary and transitory obligatory existence. You have no choice in your form, height, shape, color of your eyes or you skin. You have no choice but to go through the process of ageing.
You cannot stop your ageing for one short minute. You must die, whether you have one day of age or one hundred. Death is inevitable like life for every human who is alive or dead. We have to confront the universe and have no choice to refrain from thinking and reflecting throughout our lives. When we stop thinking we go to sleep. Our form and life-cycle are imposed on us.
Our mind is imposed on us and our thinking is also inevitable. Our universe is imposed on or minds as well as our bodies and feelings.
All is obligatory. We look into the universe and ourselves and are obliged to believe in a creator God or not. This is inevitable for everyone. If you happen to dismiss the question altogether then you have already made your choice and do not believe in God.
You have already chosen by rejecting God altogether no to believe in God. Those who are doubtful or skeptic are disbelievers as long as they did not choose belief. We are thus believers in God or disbelievers. No one escapes this choice and this choice must be taken before death. In fact death seals the inevitable choice between belief and disbelief in God.
The question now is why are we obliged to choose between belief and disbelief in God?
For this religion offers a convincing argument in one way or the other. This argument proclaims that man is created in order to choose between belief and disbelief in God. Those who chose to belief in God shall be judged favorably on a day where all humans shall be brought again to account for such belief and they shall be awarded with eternal felicity for their efforts.
We are faced with the choice and we have to make the choice but we are free only in making either choice: belief or disblief. It is inevitable to choose but man has the freedom and will to choose.
As for those who deny God and disbelieve in Him shall be brought back again on the day of reckoning in order to account for their rejection of God and merit for their denial of arrogance and disbelief in what is true and real hell fire for eternity.
