Meanwhile, this rules-lawyering nonsense shows no love or respect for God and simply a begrudging fear of hell, a resentment of God for requesting certain things of you and a view of this all as a transactional relationship.
Why should one love or respect a being who is canonically responsible for all the death and suffering present within this world today? Any sort of relationship with a creator "god" is transactional because you pray to it and it doesn't annihilate you with lightning or whatever, and yet misfortune still arises because even though this "god" has the power to create literal heaven on earth, it chooses otherwise and perpetuates mass suffering. Tbf you gotta respect the sublime beauty of such a fucking horrific eldritch being...
If there were Heaven on Earth, Humans would not have free will and would not be capable of good deeds. There is no right or wrong if your actions have no negative or positive repercussions for other people or even yourself, as they would in a Heaven, and everyone would be the same and act the same as they would have the same starting point and same experiences. If you think that's bs fine, whatever, but that's our cosmology.
Why should one love or respect a being who is canonically responsible for all the death and suffering present within this world today? Any sort of relationship with a creator "god" is transactional because you pray to it and it doesn't annihilate you with lightning or whatever, and yet misfortune still arises because even though this "god" has the power to create literal heaven on earth, it chooses otherwise and perpetuates mass suffering. Tbf you gotta respect the sublime beauty of such a fucking horrific eldritch being...
If there were Heaven on Earth, Humans would not have free will and would not be capable of good deeds. There is no right or wrong if your actions have no negative or positive repercussions for other people or even yourself, as they would in a Heaven, and everyone would be the same and act the same as they would have the same starting point and same experiences. If you think that's bs fine, whatever, but that's our cosmology.