1. "who are you to say you somehow deserve eternal life while rejecting Him?" - while you didn't say anything about hell you did pretty much say here that God doesn't allow you to keep living if you don't believe in him. Again, God uses threats. Even if you are just being hypothetical you can't deny that the Bible is filled from cover to cover with God threatening people with hell. gameguy6700
You're just showing that you have no knowledge of the Bible. Indeed, God is so cruel and hateful for not allowing you to keep living:roll: You were dead before you were created, and to the grave you will return without Christ. This is not a hard concept, and no cruelty or threatening is involved. You did nothing to deserve the life you live, so get over it.
2. No, God being omniscient does destroy free will. If God knows everything he knows the future. He'll know what you'll do. If God is perfect like he claims to be then you can never act in a way that would go against God's knowledge. Keep in mind that I'm not saying that God's knowledge causes us to lose free will, but rather that God's perfect knowledge requires determinism to be true (kind of like how the melting of an ice cube requires the temperature to be over 0 degrees celsius but does not cause the temperature to be that high). gameguy6700
God's omniscience only destroys free will reletive to Him. Since you have no knowledge, there is no infringement on you, therefore your free will is perfectly in tact. Of course at the highest level of being (God) there is determinism, and a laid out future. He knows what you're going to choose, but you still choose it.
3. If determinism is true then you only have the illusion of free will. You just think you have the ability to choose. It doesn't matter what realm of time God is in, the fact that he can see/exists in the future means that the future already exists. If the future already exists you have no free will. gameguy6700
You're still trying to put God on your level. If a friend knew what you were going to do, beyond the shadow of a doubt, trully you would have to do that. However God is the very foundation of reality. He knew everything about you before you were even born, and yes He knows the future you will choose for yourself.
4 and 5. God does set people up to fail. It's no secret that the religion of your parents or culture is usually what people end up believing for the rest of their lives. If you were born in Iran you would be a Muslim. If you were born in India you'd be Hindu. If you were born in Sweeden you'd probably be an atheist. While people do sometimes convert most never do. It's not stubbornness that's to blame but rather everyone thinks their religion is the right one and all the other ones are false. That and there's other factors. For example, there are some places in the world where if you don't share the same religious views as everyone else you're executed. gameguy6700
I can't say I know why you were born in the country you're in, that's beyond me. What I do know is that the world hungers for the truth, salvation, freedom, and purpose. In the religions of the world, these things have to be worked for and earned. But with the way of Jesus Christ, it is given freely. It is a completely radical idea of humbling one's self and admiting that I can't do this on my own. Having done some mission work, I've seen the amazing impact this has on people of many different backgrounds and beliefs.
Oh, and as for "only fools reject God" - that's a line that cults use. "Only an idiot would reject our religion", "only an evil person would reject our beliefs", etc. The Abhramaic religions, like most other religions on earth, resort to coercion in a desperate attempt to keep believers.
gameguy6700
Think what you wish, it won't change anything. There's no desperate attempt here... it's just sort of... spreads. Oh noez:shock:
Psalm 14:1
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."
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