Page 32 answering me. I believe it’s because we already know the answer. It’s your choice. The Lord said we may freely eat from any tree in the garden except for the forbidden tree. So long as we don’t eat from the forbidden tree, you may prepare these fruits any way that you like. Now there’s a point in this imaginative story. God’s will is like a parking lot. You can miss God’s will by being outside of the parking lot. But as long as you are in the parking lot, then you may freely choose any parking space you wish. Put another way, you cannot miss His will in the parking lot! The parking lot represents God’s moral will. In the garden scene, God’s moral will was to eat from any tree in the garden except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Beyond that, which tree to eat from, how to eat, when to eat, and how to prepare the fruit was left to the choice of the first man and the first woman. Take a deep breath now, and let that sink in. This raises a crucial question. How do we as believers discover the moral will of God? How do we determine the boundaries of the parking lot? There is a subjective way and an objective way. Let’s first explore the subjective way.
Thirty-eight states treat the killing of an unborn child as a form of homicide. They have what are called “fetal homicide laws.” It is illegal to take the life of the unborn if the mother wants the baby, but it is legal to take the life of the unborn if she doesn’t. In the first case the law treats the fetus as a human with rights; in the second case the law treats the fetus as non-human with no rights. Humanness is thus defined by the desire of the strong. Might makes right. We reject this right to define personhood in the case of Nazi anti-Semitism, Confederate race-based slavery, and Soviet Gulags. When we define the humanness of the unborn by the will of the powerful we know what we are doing.
John Piper