Quote:I don't agree. I think there is a third option. Let's say that you believe that there is a God and that He commands you to have a certain obligation. You have the option of choosing to obey His word, however, you also have the option of choosing not to obey his word. This would be the third option.
God is respecting your view and allows you to do so. Therefore, you do not necessarily have a gun to your head.
It is kind of like Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov in that Ivan decided that he could not love God considering all of the terrible atrocities that the world commits. Even though Ivan realizes that he could choose to follow God, he decides to not do so out of his own spite. Therefore, he has a third option.
If your dogma is correct in its assumptions, then God certainly does not respect your ability to disobey. The first four Commandments make that clear. There are only two options because there are only two outcomes: obedience and paradise, or disobedience and hell. There is a gun and it is pointed right at your face.
