(June 7, 2018 at 11:52 am)purplepurpose Wrote: If we presume that instead of hell God erases rebels, can you still provide legit reason to follow Magical God?
You should find a Seventh Day Adventist to ask this question, this is what they believe and yet they worship God.
First of all God is not a magical being, He has ultimate powers that are used in ways that represent who He is, not who you think Him to be. Eternal life with God in a place that is perfect forever, being in the presence of the only life giver, loving the One who first loved us, worshiping the One who chose to save you, learning each day about the eternal God who is never ending, never had a beginning and who exists in all times at once and ect. Yep there is an endless number of reasons to follow God the best is love, he loves us enough to give His Son as a sacrifice to save our miserable hides, redeeming us into the likeness of His Son, perfect and unblemished. By the way the Adventist do not believe they can know that they are truly saved until Christ's second coming, so this annihilation theory is an insurance policy against eternal payment for eternally unforgiven sin. This in my opinion eases their fear of having to live by the law. Just saying.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.