So you think God wants obedience via terrifying people with the threat of roasting them alive forever? You admire and worship such an entity? How very sad indeed!
It is a very good thing to fear Yehowah: He is a righteous and Holy God. The guilty should very much fear the judge! Yes, He is loving, kind, gracious, compassionate, forgiving, and merciful, but He is Holy, righteous, just, and good. Because He is Holy, He will not tolerate sin; Sin is all that is evil. He is good, and He will punish evil; He will punish the guilty.
Those who do wrong on earth against men without knowing that what they are doing is wrong still receive a punishment from men. How much more so will those who know that they are sinning against God receive a just punishment! Should God forgive a murderer? Should He forgive the thieves? They are committing evil, why should they be forgiven? They are guilty and deserve the punishment for their evil.
But God, being loving, kind, gracious, compassionate, forgiving, and merciful, provided a way out. Yet still, with knowledge of all this, men still continue in their rebellion. That is a crime of crimes against the God of gods. You rob God of the glory that only He is worthy of; mankind exists only to glorify God. And to come to Him for grace unto eternal life through faith and repentance is to glorify Him. We are all criminals, God is the judge. Should the criminals on earth who commit crimes on earth be acquitted for their atrocities on earth? Why then, should God acquit the guilty? And all are guilty. As I will pearl string,
"There is not a righteous man on earth,
Who always does good and doesn't sin.
All have sinned,
and fall short of the glory of God.
They are corrupt.
These fools they say in their heart,
'There is no God.'
They have done abominable deeds.
There is no one who does good.
Yehowah looked down from heaven on the children of men,
to see if there were any who understood,
who sought after God.
They have all gone aside.
They have together become corrupt.
They have become filthy together.
There is no one who does good, no, not one."
Ecclesiastes 7:20, Romans 3:23, Psalm 14:1-3, Psalm 52:1-3,
God says He will punish the guilty,
"Yehowah passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yehowah, Yehowah, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation" (Exodus 34:6-7).
And as said before, He will not tolerate evil,
"Yehowah is not a God who has pleasure in wickedness.
Evil can’t live with Him.
The arrogant shall not stand in His sight.
He hates all workers of iniquity.
He will destroy those who speak lies.1Yehowah abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man" (Psalm 5:4-6).
Those who persist in rebellion do so knowingly and, thus, their sin is even more sinful. They are not innocent, but guilty.
For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, so that they are without excuse: Because though they knew God, they glorified Him not, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools: they changed the glory of the incorruptible God for themselves. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the created more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. For this cause God gave them up to vile affections. For even women changed the natural use into that which is against nature, and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one towards another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not right; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, spiteful, proud, boasters, inventers of evil, disobedient, Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Romans 1:20-32
Those who do evil will reap evil for themselves: eternal condemnation; those who do good reap good for themselves. "He who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life" (Galatians 6:7-8).
You admire and worship such an entity? How very sad indeed!
So you would rather admire and worship and entity that would allow and condone evil? Which is sadder, admiring and worshipping a good God or admiring and worshipping an evil God?
