God and humankind - are they compatible?

This practical theology has developed over many years and discusses some of the seemingly incompatible aspects of God and humankind, good and evil and in relation to some scientific theories that I believe has an impact on these questions. I see no impossibility between the questions posed that can't be understood if we have an open mind to how we understand the Bible and life. The basis of the premise to this practical theology is true to life human understanding and not magical conjectures.

The problem of God being all powerful and loving compared with mankind’s freedom.
They seem to be incompatible. Are they? (D J Woodman’s thoughts Dec 2008)
Looking at this problem by its constituent parts:
Mankind’s freedom
Is a person free to do anything? Surely the answer is not quite. The answer is certainly not either yes or no! We do have some freedom to speak or not to speak, to do or not to do. But that freedom is actually constrained, limited by who we are, our nature, our skills etc. In an amazing way true human freedom is only found in accepting huge limitations. A pianist through hours of practise and learning can play a beautiful piece of music and be fulfilled and excited by it. We only have to think of the recent 2008 Olympics and our medal winners to see the same dedication and enjoyment. There limitation in training to gain a great skill. On the other hand a drug addict is constrained by the drug until it destroys them. Their actions controlled more and more by the single aim to feed their habit resulting in violence and theft. It seems we have more freedom in the more trivial choices and the converse. People have a conscience, very strongly felt by young children, hence the pantomime’s success. So how many urges to not do evil has a person ignored until their conscience is seared and is of no effect? The conscience is God given to each person to help them learn from interactions with other people and to develop compassion and changed actions.

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