How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?

[Ryantology]

I'm trying to explain what the real interpretation of Christian salvation through Christ is meant to be.

Oh, how lucky, we have the two billionth Christian out of two billion Christians who knows what the real interpretation of the Bible is supposed to be.

One and the same thing, as living beings we have our own freewill. If we were created as purely spiritual beings we would be under Gods will.

How can it be free will if any exercise of that will results in eternal punishment?

Well yes it is Gods plan. It's a very plan overall seeing as we get the opportunity to exist as living beings and to develop our relationship with God with our own freedom of will and serve others and some good. Naturally you will need to have the capacity to sin and be evil if this is to have any point or purpose.

Why did God design our free will so that virtually any expression of it is evil? Doesn't that sound like a rigged game to you?

Without the downside you wouldn't have the upside. The upside makes the downside worth it.

To put it another way, Christians wouldn't be able to enjoy salvation if there weren't a bunch of people burning in hell.

What God created here is a community of being capable of living in love with God and each other but only if we choose to do so there's no force or compulsion involved you see.

How can you say there's no compulsion involved when God offers rewards for getting on the bandwagon and punishes anyone who doesn't?

Everyone has a life that is worth something and is valuable even if it will involve some degree of suffering and hardship.

Suffering seems so much more pointless when it exists only to satisfy God's desire to see people suffer.

In the Christian context the universe was created for the purpose of developing a loving community of beings. The you do this is by creating a system that allows for full freewill in the context of having something worthwhile to strive toward and struggle against. Hence what you now have is an opportunity to do some good works for others and lessen the suffering of your fellow man, and animals and whatever as well. So the temporal hardship involved promotes the eternal spiritual development.

How fucking selfish, not just of Christians for actually believing they are the center of the universe, but of God demanding more out of us than he is willing to give to us.

It's better that he did make it this way given the opportunity of what it allows us to experience and do.

I would prefer that nobody suffered. I don't need people dying in agony just so I can appreciate not dying in agony myself.