God says “Love me or die”

[Zen Badger]

Okay, ad hominem for the sake of digressing from your inability to answer...

And that edit makes no sense. With God, if He manifested Himself in some way that was not open for interpretation, it would not allow for free will to make the chocie on believing in Him or not.

Well technically if for the sake of argument he did manifest himself it would longer be a case

of belief, we would know he exists.Then the choice would be to follow him or not.

And where is the problem with that?

By your standards he is the fundamental force of the unverse.

It would be like choosing whether to believe in gravity or not.

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No. Suicide is something God would never do and never condone. God's gift to us is life, it is given purely out of love for us. Returning the gift is something unthinkable, and leaves behind nothing of your soul but misery and pain. Things which God quickly forgets.

If the weather had been shit and the stranger had told James to fuck off, he could have recalled earlier days when the weather was not shit, and decided that the stranger was an asshole who wasn't worth the anger or the suicide.

And I reiterate, if he HAD gone through with his suicide, is that god manifesting himself?

If you live a good, virtuous life and are happy with how you went about things, and confident in your own decisions, then it doesn't matter whether you believe in God or not. You'll give yourself what you deserve, and be remembered for what you did.

Then why is the bible so shit hot on punishment for unbelievers?

Just remembering that the bible is the inerrant word of god.