Yeah.. if your not a Christian and according to human standards you have lived a morally upright life.. then it could be difficult for you to understand how your depraved and deserving of hell.
You're right. It's difficult to be convinced that every human being is inherently evil and worthy of eternal punishment and that the divine being that deems as unworthy, somehow also manages to love us enough to offer us salvation if we just choose to believe. Do you have any proof to offer that doesn't require me to believe first?
But God's moral standard is quite different.
That's his problem, not mine. I can't live by someone else's moral standards. I can - and only wish to live - by mine.
If we have ever hated someone in our heart, then we are guilty of committing murder.
And this passes for justices in the eyes of your God? That one, single statement makes a mockery of justice.
If we have lusted, then we have committed adultery. Etc.
Well, if nothing else, instilling that mentality into people does make them easy for the men of God - who conveniently also sell salvation - to control and profit from the masses.
"Step right up folks... step right up and get Jesus's Elixir of Eternal Life"So, even though you may have lived a very upstanding life... your still guilty of some extremely heinous crimes.
If a supernatural being demands my belief, worship and obedience but refuses to give me clear and convincing proof and then chooses to punish me when I don't believe, worship and obey it, then the fault isn't with me - it's with the supernatural being. Your God, if your description is accurate, is nothing short of a bully - on a cosmic scale, no doubt, but a bully nonetheless.
The worst of all not loving God.
I find it hard to love someone that is, in essence, threatening me. Or are you so twisted you think that "believe or else..." is an expression of love?