(July 25, 2023 at 9:51 am)WinterHold Wrote:(July 24, 2023 at 3:59 pm)emjay Wrote: That was just a rough analogy. The point was, if you were created, your creator only has might, not right, to mistreat you. And if he does that, he can at most expect obedience, but not genuine love and respect, because that has to be earned.
But why won't you be grateful ?
Don't you have two eyes?
A tongue and two lips?
Even if you are blind and deaf; you still have thoughts and a brain.
The obedience is for getting rewards only, but the more one is obedient for God the more they realize that this life is a mere timed simulation that will end very soon. So it won't last, no pain in this simulation will last, it is only for a timed period.
Being a timed test is in itself a mercy deserving obedience. Imaging if instead, humans lived for Millions of years, with chronic diseases.
For me the first injustice of this supposed god is it judging primarily on what you believe rather than what you do; ie fairer and much more logical if you're a god would be to make yourself known to everybody without question, then it would be a far more logical test of obedience alone. People could still choose to reject it, and I most probably would for its other injustices, but it would at least make sense as the right sort of test.
