Look, I am sure somewhere in the 15,000 word essay you just wrote you may have vaguely touched on my central question but since you start off contradicting yourself I doubt it so lets get straight to the point.
So... in essence, you realize your position is lost, but you can't muster the intellectual veracity to admit it. Fair enough... that is the basis from which any discussion with darkness must begin.
You stated very clearly that Christ can and will kill me if I exercise my right to be my own sovereign in any manor other that how he dictates.
There is absolutely NOTHING in my thesis which could lead a reasonable person to such a conclusion.
What I've said is that God came to earth incarnate, lived his life as an innocent man; subjected himself to the unspeakable torment of the crucifixion to pay for your sins, so that you can live in heaven, washed in the light of fellowship with the Father... a gift he willingly gave to you, so that you may live, despite your own inherent short comings and that all you need to do to is to accept his gift of grace to avoid the absolute certainty of eternal damnation.
The CHOICE IS YOURS... Christ has made absolutely NO attempt to rob you of your human sovereignty; he provides you with the opportunity to live your life as you would do so; to pursue the fulfillment of your life as you CHOOSE to do so; BUT where you would choose to exercise your rights to the detriment of the rights of others, YOU CHOOSE to fail to maintain the responsibility on which your OWN RIGHTS rest and thus CHOOSE to forfeit your human rights in the process of and as a direct result of your OWN CHOICE. That Christ has given you the means make your own choices, he has promised to hold you accountable for those choices...
What you are arguing from the darkness, is that you demand that you be allowed to make your choices absent any accountability... that you should not be held accountable for your choices.
You desperately want to believe that there can be no freedom unless and until you are, or until you BECOME: God. You have to have it all... or you're not playing.
And it's right there sir, where you should be able to see that your entire argument rests on a bed of lies.
You're free to be whatever you want... all you have to do is to pursue your life without infringing on someone else's means to pursue their own and to do so knowing that when it's all said and done that you will be held accountable for the choices you've made and that the judgment will be made without consideration for the specious rationalizations you created to justify your choices where you've infringed on the rights of others... where you've violated God's universal rules.
The simple fact is that you're working from the other side of an illusion; a lie that presents to you the false notion that you have a choice to play or not to play; that you have the choice to 'give God the authority to judge you;' that
you should be God; because you're in possession of the knowledge, to simply do a better job.
It's the same old story of the child that wants to be the parent... the wonderful news here is that in most scenarios the child does become the parent and inevitably does so only to find that their own Parent was right all along; that the angst that they were feeling as a child was born from the limited perspective of the child.
And I preface my question this way because if I cannot be my own sovereign then no other rights exist. None. I have no right to life; Christ takes that away from me. I have no right worship as I choose; Christ takes that away from me. There exists not a single right outside the very narrow parameter that I accept him as my savior. And please note: Christ will kill me not because I killed someone; not because I threatened someone; not because I lived my life in an immoral manor. He will kill me, then burn me for eternity in hell, for the egregious sin of not needing nor wanting his salvation. That’s it. That’s all the reason needed.
False... You HAD A CHOICE TO LIVE YOUR HUMAN LIFE AS YOU WOULD... Christ didn't force you to love him... he didn't force you to accept his gift. Christ simply understood the
reality that as a human being you could never live a life sufficiently pure that you would be able to experience the fellowship of the light of the Father... and as a result of THAT, your soul will be unable to exist within the light and fellowship of the Father... Christ realized that where the Father is, there is light, love and infinite peace... where the Father is not, is darkness torment and agony... Christ merely sought to save you from your on inability to save yourself; he willingly came to earth, lived incarnate, as a human being; flesh and blood, but lived a pure life and despite that, he knowingly sacrificed that life, which he cherished just as any other human would, to pay the price for the sins of humanity... a price which is inescapable... a price required by the rules of nature, which you may or may not be capable of understanding, but which exist in the absence of your consent; despite and without regard of your approval... Christ understood that you would not understand and he provided you with the gift of grace, so that despite your limitations, you'd have a chance; one based upon the same thing that assures your damnation... one simple choice. Thus, Christ has already saved you from damnation; he's already paid the debt you incurred for your poor choices; he's done is part and given you a gift which you can never hope to deserve...
and despite that, your fate remains in your hands; it remains a function of your choices, as a free sovereign. He will not force you to accept his gift, he will not step in and make you make good choices... all he is doing is holding you accountable for the choice that you make.
A choice which to this point you seem to be determined to reject; and this on the basis that you feel that if you are NOT GOD; if you don't set the rules as YOU SEE FIT... well then you're not really free so screw the Universe and everyone in it, INCLUDING THE BEING THAT CREATED YOU, GAVE YOU THE VERY LIFE IN WHICH YOU'RE PRESENTLY FREE TO CHOOSE TO REJECT HIM...
Do not stand there and state that rights come from god when clearly it is god that is taking them away…
Your rights came from God... inherent in the life God gave you and despite that gift of life and the right to your sovereign independence, the choice you're presently making is to reject him; this on the basis of a delusion of your own making, wherein you demand MORE... You demand from your Creator that for you to be TRULY FREE and for the GIFT OF YOUR LIFE AND THE RIGHTS INHERENT IN IT TO MEAN SOMETHING TO YOU... that God must MAKE YOU GOD! Or his gifts will be rejected as NO KIND OF GIFT AT ALL ...
Imagine a parent of child such as yourself, Peter; despite ALL the Parent has done for them, they demand more, until eventually it becomes clear that they want it all... that nothing they do will ever be enough; they just complaim and require more and more until at some point, they must be held accountable... imagine the heartbreak of that accounting and perhaps you'll get something which can't be adequately described as a glimmer of understanding of what the Father must feel when his children fail to come home; but its as close as our language will get.
Secular Humanism is a lie Peter... your position rests on little more than what can only be described as
the illusion of light... you are living in the absence of reason, destined to remain in want, because you can't be satisfied with anything that is short of
everything.
