God's Love and the Choice to Perish or Have Eternal Life

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God's love is demonstrated by giving His only son so that believers can have eternal life and not perish. The strongest assertion of God's love in the Bible includes the possibility of perishing, which can be challenging to accept. Jesus preached about the choice between eternal life and perishing, primarily to bigoted religious people who believed they had the truth. God respects individuals' free will and will not force anyone to respond to His love. If one chooses to reject God, He will honor that decision and not invade their personality, as forcing someone to love Him would negate the essence of true love.

The concept of a “multiverse” — formerly an obscure idea in philosophy and theoretical physics — is now mainstream. Movies like best-picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once or Marvel’s Spider Man: Into the Spiderverse invite us into an expansive vision of the cosmos: one where there are infinite worlds, possibilities, and comparisons. Even though these multiverse films feature outlandish sci-fi story lines (like hot dog fingers), their characters wrestle with many of the same questions we do, like, are we living in the best possible world?

In this episode, we discuss just that.

You’ll hear from mathematician John Lennox (Oxford) and moderator Daniel Lowenstein (UCLA) in a Forum event at UCLA in 2015. Together, they explore the toughest questions surrounding our existence. What do we do in the face of tragedy? Why do we experience pain? And, if there is a God who created the world, why did he make it like this?

Thank you to the Forum planning team at UCLA for making this event possible.

Watch the full Forum event here.
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