In a world without God...

[Drich]

Not a mind game. When someone of true power and authority in our soceity tells you to do XYZ if you want 123, then one does XYZ if He wants 123. Like If I was the little old lady who won that 600 million dollar power ball jackpot and I told you i will give you 100 million dollars if you washed my car with yellow joy liquid soap, rinsed it with bottled water and waxed it with liquid glass, would you wash and wax my car your way? Or would you do it per my instructions to make sure you got what I was offering?

If you would do this (bend your knee to me) for something as trivial as a 100 million dollars, then why would you expect to have God bend his knee before you to give you eternal life?

After all what does it profit a man if he were to loose his soul?

Argument from big stakes.

In your example, you're including in your assumptions that I'm aware that you have the money to pay me, which is the crucial difference between expecting someone to bend their knee to someone you claim exists and washing the car of a real person who really has 600 million dollars.

If a little old lady just told me she had 600 million dollars and would give me a 100 million for washing her car, I'd assume she was demented. I might still wash her car out of pity, not figuring I'll get anything for it.

This is the fatal flaw in your ablity to reason that carries over to your in ablity to grasp what is being done for you here.

Their is a lady in Zepherhills Fl who did win 600 million + dollars. She is 86 years old. She is giving away most of the money.

The conditions were mine. I used them to illustrate this point: The money (100 million dollars) is in no way fair compensation for the work being performed (you sumized this correctly) So one must ask himself why is she giving this money to me for washing her car? Your best answer judged the lady mentally defective. When in reality She is just giving away a large some of money. So larger there is nothing you can do on this earth to deserve it. It is a gift with one condition, that you accept it on her terms.

So too is the gift Christ gives you.