Why should Christians be moral?

[Lek]

Was he? He lost ten children and countless servants and other workers, who were all slaughtered just to see how he would react. His own wife told him to curse god and die, an act that she would have had on her conscience the rest of her life, if not for the fact that she spent those years pumping out another ten children. He got to spend the rest of his life with the understanding that if god decided to turn his life upside-down, he could do so without hesitation or remorse. That's not much of a reward.

It was quite a reward, not withstanding that he received the gift of eternal life with God.

No, he did not give the man a truthful answer. He changed the rules on the spot. Like Job, this man had to realize that if he had gone along with Jesus' request, he might simply add another condition that was required for salvation. Jesus might have been holding a whole bag full of hoops for that poor guy to jump through.

I know. I feel sorry for the poor guy too, but people were never saved by following the law. Even the old testament saints were saved not by following the law, but by their faith in the coming savior.

And that's your god. He can do whatever he wants and you have no recourse but to accept it. And he appears to enjoy yanking the rug out from under your feet. It's kind of like a reverse Pascal's Wager: maybe you serve god all your life and he decides to ruin your afterlife because he's god and you're not. So maybe the smart move is telling him to sod off.

No. Serve him all your life and you'll receive the reward of eternal life with him.