I pray that the Jedi do.
How DO you folks keep everything straight?
We met on Free Republic. :>)
Well, we look at the hundreds of complicated, convoluted pages of the Catechism of the RCC, and then we read the Bible and find the truth.
Later we might also read the much shorter and Scripturally-based Westminster Confession of Faith or Heidelberg Confession or London Baptist Confession of Faith, and then we might choose the one that most appeals to our God-given conscience.
They are remarkably consistent because they are founded on the word of God. If they weren't founded on the word of God, if they added or subtracted to the Scriptures, if they concocted vain traditions and stated them as fact, if they encouraged men to believe in fables and to construct wooden idols and to pray to anyone other than Christ the only mediator between men and God, then they would just be another doctrine of men and an abomination to God.
But because they are Scripturally-based, they are simply joint restatements of Scriptural truths.
Re: choices. Men always have "choices." The Biblical understanding is that unless and until God has regenerated a man and given him a new heart and new eyes and ears, that man will always "choose poorly" (a great phrase from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.")
When the Holy Spirit resides in a man, that man's perspective will be wrenched from himself and turned toward God. And the only one who can accomplish such a feat of strength is God Himself.
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost" -- Titus 3:5
In the broader sense, keeping in mind the sovereignty and omnipotence of God who "decreed the end from the beginning," all things in life have been ordained by God for His glory.
That part is difficult to wrap our minds around. But this difficulty doesn't negate its truth. It simply calls for faith in order to embrace it. And the result of embracing that truth is comfort and security and peace in His eternal promise to those who believe in His Son as Lord and Savior.
All in all, an amazing plan.