How do we offend God?

[fhansen]

The question is in the title. I’m curious how people understand this, to be honest if I was asked by someone, how does a certain action or thought offend God, I wouldn’t have a convincing answer.

Thanks.

A single, solitary, white lie is a shock, an offense against nature, against the order of the universe. It’s something that simply was never meant to be: a lack of innocence in creation, no longer aligned with truth. Free will allows for such an act, and God, with big shoulders and total foreknowledge, could “plan” for it, but the offense and the breach with Reality that it causes are still there-and must be reconciled and resolved in order for justice, harmony, integrity, truth, innocence to be restored.

 

[GLam8833]

A single, solitary, white lie is a shock, an offense against nature, against the order of the universe. It’s something that simply was never meant to be: a lack of innocence in creation, no longer aligned with truth. **Free will **allows for such an act, and God, with big shoulders and total foreknowledge, could “plan” for it, but the offense and the breach with Reality that it causes are still there-and must be reconciled and resolved in order for justice, harmony, integrity, truth, innocence to be restored.

There is no FREE WILL, God has given man FREE CHOICE, whether
to serve HIM and follow HIS laws and love HIM, or NOT!

 

[fhansen]

There is no FREE WILL, God has given man FREE CHOICE, whether
to serve HIM and follow HIS laws and love HIM, or NOT!

I guess I haven’t heard this distinction yet. Is there a possibility of making a free choice with a will that isn’t free? Here’s the CCC (name removed by moderator)ut:

1711 Endowed with a spiritual soul, with intellect and with free will, the human person is from his very conception ordered to God and destined for eternal beatitude. He pursues his perfection in “seeking and loving what is true and good” (GS 15 § 2).

 

[simpleas]

A single, solitary, white lie is a shock, an offense against nature, against the order of the universe. It’s something that simply was never meant to be: a lack of innocence in creation, no longer aligned with truth. Free will allows for such an act, and God, with big shoulders and total foreknowledge, could “plan” for it, but the offense and the breach with Reality that it causes are still there-and must be reconciled and resolved in order for justice, harmony, integrity, truth, innocence to be restored.

You know, I hope that maybe in a thousand years or so, that Innocence with be restored, that humans will live just a Adam and Eve did before the fall. No struggles, no illness, no death, sounds very un human in a way…

 

[GLam8833]

I guess I haven’t heard this distinction yet. Is there a possibility of making a free choice with a will that isn’t free? Here’s the CCC (name removed by moderator)ut:

1711 Endowed with a spiritual soul, with intellect and with free will, the human person is from his very conception ordered to God and destined for eternal beatitude. He pursues his perfection in “seeking and loving what is true and good” (GS 15 § 2).

The crux of the matter is that God LOVES us, it is up to US
whether to believe in that love and to return it by obeying
His rules, and fearing Him(knowing that only He can deliver
us from our Archenemy, the devil) and of course loving Him
back.

 

[chefmomster2]

There is no FREE WILL, God has given man FREE CHOICE, whether to serve HIM and follow HIS laws and love HIM, or NOT!

I understand what you mean. Essentially free will is the freedom to choose, but we do call it free will and the Church uses that term. The CCC expresses this well:

CCC

1731 Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility. By free will one shapes one’s own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude.

1732 As long as freedom has not bound itself definitively to its ultimate good which is God, there is the possibility of choosing between good and evil, and thus of growing in perfection or of failing and sinning. This freedom characterizes properly human acts. It is the basis of praise or blame, merit or reproach.