Argument from evil, restated

[Zarith]

As ronedee says, no option makes us robots. Without a evil, there is nothing to choose. Ergo, it is not possible to love.

So when we ask God to remove the impulse to do evil from us, we are asking him to make us a robot, and remove the possibility to love. And earth is basically one big robotics factory, with the rejects being thrown in the incinerator for eternity, and heaven is some sort of robotics playground in the sky. No thanks.

Evil is the void of good--it is anything done against God's will. So God need not create us with an 'impulse' for evil. He need only make it occur to us that we can disobey. He did this through Satan in the garden. Satan presented the possibility of sin to Adam and Eve. God used Satan to introduce free will, and with it, love.

Which is more likely? That this really happened, or that someone had the clever idea to create 2 separate accounts, charge all the good to one and all the evil to another, presto, now there exists a being which is pure good, problem of evil solved. Well, not really. More like obfuscated.

If you’re worried, try this: “God, I’m sorry for every wrong I’ve done against others and against you. Thank you for sending your son to take my punishment for me. Please forgive me.” I think you can judge whether you are sincere or not.

But that's just it. Given what I believe, I can't possibly make this request in a sincere way, any more than you can sincerely put aside your belief in God.

Now imagine a world without evil or love—this is the world you seem to advocate. Is it worth living in?

I don't advocate any world. I look at the world and attempt to describe how it works. I (like many others) never asked to become an atheist. I wasn't allowed to choose which things made sense to me and which things did not. All I did was realize one day that the things I was being told made no sense, and many of them sounded downright immoral.

Another reason: truth.
Truth is the most powerful weapon on earth. It motivates.

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Without the knowledge of hell, believers would have no reason to spread the good news. There would be no goal. Humans are narrow-sighted. As much as we might want to do things for God, we would see nothing wrong with dabbling in sin at the same time. Hell reminds us just how grievous our sins are in God’s sight.

But this is in direct contradiction to your previous post in which you said that we should choose to love God for the sake of loving God.

Can you think of a question more relevant to human existence than the afterlife?

As soon as you can show that it exists, then I'll accept that it's relevant.