::My apologies, you are quite correct, I was slightly rude and disrespectful in my previous response to you. And you're quite correct, I was stating what I believe as certainty and dismissing what you believe completely, my apologies. Though I can't say I'll stop frowning - I tend to do it a lot when I'm thinking.
Thank you for being gracious.
::Of course there is no god more loving than the true God, but if He sets some limits and we willingly choose to step outside of those limits, would it be right of Him to drag us back in to His love?
I believe that human nature is such that we do not need to be dragged back; love softens the heart, it breaks our defenses.
::I put it to you, Adam, that Hitler chose death (unless he repented on his deathbed). I also put it to you that he quite probably is far from the only one - he's just one of the obvious ones.
I'm not sure that he repented on his deathbed or not, but I believe that hell is refining and sanctifying, so I believe that eventually he has chosen life.
::One more thing, Adam, remember Paul says of Christians that we are to those who are perishing - the odour of death. Would you say that "those who are perishing" will end up choosing life? And if so, wouldn't that mean that the choice isn't even a reality?
Paul taught that we participate in the death of Christ so that we can share in the resurrection of Christ; we are perishing in order to be reborn. Choosing to die to our old self is precisely how we choose life.
If I gave all of my students a choice between an A and an F, they would all choose the A. I suppose in some sense it's not a real choice, but in other senses it still very much is.
We are free to seek what we need.