Quote Originally Posted by God-free View Post
1.) An armed robber approaches you. He puts his gun to your head and says he wants your money. If you give it to him, he'll let you live. If you don't, he'll shoot you.

2.) God approaches you. He claims to be all powerful and wants you to place all of your trust in him. If you do that, then when you die, he'll transport you to paradise. If you won't/can't do that, then when you die, he'll transport you to a place of torment.


Do you see a moral difference between these two scenarios? If so, please explain your reasoning. Thanks.
from a purely Christian perspective ,I can see many differences.

The robber,in this case, wants something from you that doesn't belong to him. So morally he has no right to take it ,but by force.

In the other scenario, God has a claim on what was his to begin with and never belonged to the person he approaches.

in other words , you can't blame someone for exercising his right to the free use of private property.

and that's one of several moral differences.