Free Will and Child Sex Abuse

God gave man free will when He created Him in the garden. That means that man could choose evil and God would not intervene to prevent him from doing so. But God also gave man dominion over the earth meaning that man must suffer the consequences of his own evil. Although the use of the word ‘man’ here is misleading because, in the case of this blog, it’s children who suffer the consequences of man’s evil.

75% of them are abused multiple times - some thousands of times

I believe that a strong-willed man will prevail over a weak-willed man every time. Men obsessed with sexually molesting a child are driven by strong passions and there are, at least, tens of millions of them. That is a lot of will to counteract. But it can be done if enough of us pray daily, and pray hard.

If you don’t pray, then concentrate your mind on this problem for 3 minutes a day, willing that it will stop. If you do pray, then pray hard. Remember the fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. That means you need to get into the prayer by identifying with the victim. Ask God to help you to love that child whoever he or she may be. Identifying with the victim is also identifying with Christ in His sufferings.