Sounds more like an ultimatum given the dire consequences for non-compliance.
Depends on your perspective. If you believe God simply made a way to protect you from a bad end than it's a gift. If you believe God made a punishment for disobeying, then it's an ultimatum.
Well god made it all, including the bad, so it's a stacked game with an ultimatum.
Again, it depends on how you look at it. Maybe it was the only way to make the game if you want a game with free will and choices. Is it possible to love without the possibility to hate? Is it even possible to have good without the possibility of evil?
There would have to be free will to start with (of which there is not), and not everything is a choice. Why would a loving god want to create evil in the first place? A loving god could've just made everything good from the start. The story makes no sense no matter how you look at it.
Originally Posted by mauserand9mm
Originally Posted by mauserand9mm
Originally Posted by Raspy
Whatever you said...everyone knows you are a lying jerk.
That's a bold assertion. Point out where you think I lied.
