When it comes to how many of us were raised to view faith, there is a massive logical puzzle hiding right in plain sight.

Consider these three simple statements:

1. His Heart: God genuinely desires to reconcile every single human being to Himself.

2. His Power: God is completely sovereign and will successfully accomplish everything He desires.

3. The Outcome: Some people will remain eternally separated from God.

Here is the catch: you can logically only pick two. It is formally impossible for all three to be true simultaneously.

If you pick 2 and 3: You believe God always gets what He wants, yet some people are lost forever. The inevitable conclusion? God must not actually want to save everyone. Therefore, His love is limited.

If you pick 1 and 3: You believe God desperately wants to save everyone, yet some are still lost forever. The inevitable conclusion? God’s love gets permanently thwarted by human stubbornness. Therefore, His power is limited.

“But wait,” people often ask, “doesn’t God give us free will? Doesn’t true love require the freedom to reject Him forever?”

It sounds deeply respectful on the surface, but let’s look closer at how freedom actually works.

If a dying traveller in the desert reaches for a cup of liquid believing it's pure water, but it's actually deadly poison - did they “freely choose” to destroy themselves? Of course not. They were deceived.

No fully informed, rational soul who clearly beholds unconditional Love, Beauty, and Joy would ever choose eternal misery. Rejecting God isn’t an act of supreme freedom; it's the tragic result of spiritual blindness, trauma, and delusion.

Think of a loving parent whose toddler throws a meltdown and tries to run straight into oncoming traffic. Does the parent stand on the pavement and say, “Well, because I love you, I must respect your free choice to destroy yourself”? Of course not. They swoop in, hold the child safely, and wait for the panic and illusion to pass.

God doesn’t crush our free will by dragging us kicking and screaming into Love against our wishes. Instead, He liberates our will. He removes our blindness and heals our broken minds so thoroughly that choosing Him becomes the only beautiful, sane, and joyful option left.

Do you see how the trap dissolves?

When we choose Statements 1 and 2, Statement 3 disappears under the weight of God’s goodness.

If God’s heart is endlessly loving toward everyone, and His power is so absolute that His redemptive grace never fails, then hopeless, endless separation cannot stand.

But what about Judgment then?

Judgment isn’t divine vengeance or endless torture - it's the purifying, restorative love of a Father who refuses to leave any of His creation trapped in delusion. The Gospel is not a transactional deal you strike to escape an angry deity. It is the epic news that God is both good enough to want every single one of us, and big enough to heal us all and bring us home.