Oh, it's true. The truth doesn't require your permission or agreement.
I am, right now, apart from God
And I'm not burning!
According to Acts 14, you're still under his grace, and mercy.
When you die, you'll be separated from that grace and mercy.
Act 14:17 WEB Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
You couldn't be more wrong
Ah, the opinions of a madman run amok.
God is responsible for everything
It was God who devised the system
He created the cosmos and the first man and woman. The human race has handled the rest.
It was God who decided that if you're not going to Heaven then you're going to Hell
Nope. Each and every single human being is responsible for where they will spend their eternity.
Joh 3:15 WEB that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
There's only one group of people who are being predestined by God.
And they're being predestined to be conformed to the image of Jesus.
Rom 8:29 WEB For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Nobody else is being predestined.
And He did so consciously, purposefully, and needlessly
Nope.
You're being given the opportunity to engage him on his terms, turn to YHVH from your sin and place your trust in Jesus.
Then you too will be among the predestined to be conformed to the image of Jesus.
Then the following will apply to you as well.
Rom 8:30-39 WEB 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified. 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? 33 Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God could choose annihilation for me, but instead, He has decided to eternally torture me
God could choose to return me to the unconscious state inhabited by the unborn, but instead, He has decided to endlessly burn me
God could create another place for the unbelievers, but instead, God has decided that the fires of Hell will be their destination
No. He's not chosen to torture you.
You keep telling us that you don't want to live with him, in his house and under his terms, so he's letting you live beyond his terms and beyond his house.
The difference between heaven and hell is your own decision.
If you continue to tell Him no, he will honor your choice and upon your death, you will have excluded yourself from living in his home. Not because he wanted to torture you. But because you refused to receive his gift of eternal life and freedom from your sin.
You will have chosen your own eternity separated from God. The torment you experience, will be the torment of your own sin and regret for having said no, and then the torment of your sin.
Wrong again, Steve
I no more believe in the Devil than I do God
I'll take the Devil over YHVH any day and twice on Sunday
At least Satan is honest enough to admit to his evil
Then you'll have exactly what you want.
Jesus said that he is the father of lies and a murderer from the beginning.
Joh 8:44 WEB You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
So.... all those people who you think YHVH killed...
The devil killed them. He told them lies they chose to believe, and as a result, he killed them.
As Jesus also said,
Joh 10:7-14 WEB 7 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture. 10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
