Wow, free will, and all that? You got some understanding going on there.You know, I watched my high school sweet heart, and also my wife, take her last breath tomorrow
morning, Wednesday 1991. Man, did I get ticked off at God. He let me pout for a couple of years, then one day, He just kinda knocked and said "what are you ticked about?" My wife. I prayed for you to heal her! "And, what happened?" You let her die, I said. "God said, hey, rocket scientist, if I had healed her cancer, how long would she have lived? what would have been the next thing that got her? disease? terrorist attack?" He just stopped for a minute and let me think, then He said, "I answered your prayer better than you even thought. Yes, I could have healed her down here, and one day, you probably would have still had to watch her die. Oh, I did one way better than that! I healed her forever!!!" That faith you were talkin about? It's still there, you've just chosen to set it aside for a time. God is faithful, even when I'm not!!!