Originally posted on Facebook on Thursday, October 19, 2023.

This "trolley problem" is really helpful in understanding some people's perception of Christian theology, except it omits the important part where God made the trolley for good, and told us its proper use but we were dupped into believing that we should be the ones to determine how to use the trolley.

So, in rebellion and as a defiant demonstration of our own agency we chose to prostrate ourselves before the trolley.

God not wanting us to perish, but respecting our agency, makes every effort to warn us, imploring us to get out of harm's way but we insist we do not need help.

We are so recalcitrant we even delude ourselves into believing the creator of the trolley does not exist even though there's a trolley in front of us that we did not create.

The impending destruction and death is because of our doing.

And the only way to be saved is to

acknowledge His voice, the only voice warning us of the danger,

admit His description of the problem, the only description that's accurate and that makes the only solution apparent,

and accept His Solution, the only solution that gets us off the track -the path of destruction, and restores His good design.