(November 14, 2013 at 11:16 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: What you interpret as threats are really warnings and consequences. As in, if you play with fire you will get burned. And if you follow the straight and narrow path, you will reach your destination. When you defy Divine Wisdom and ignore Divine Truth bad things happen. The irony is that when you seek reward and behave in order to avoid punishment, you deceive yourself about what it means to be good. You see falsities as truths and evils as goods.
I saved this gif because I knew exactly how you would respond and I knew it would be appropriate.
You know, as if hell was just some unfortunate natural phenomenon rather than a place designed specifically to punish the recalcitrant, and, in spite of God being all-knowing and all-powerful, he is simply incapable of keeping people out of it if they don't do exactly what he tells them to do, even though he totally wishes he could.