Quote Originally Posted by God-free View Post
The OP says he’ll shoot you. Maybe you’ll die, maybe you won’t, or maybe the gun is empty and he’s just using it to frighten you. Regardless, it’s the the threat to your well-being that matters here.
"If you give it to him, he'll let you live. If you don't, he'll shoot you."...in the head. Let's see give money and live, don't give money and die. Then again as hard headed as I am it'd prolly ricochet back at the robber and get him instead.

Their goals are stated in the OP. The robber wants your money and God wants you to place all of your trust in him.
They both are warning me based on my choice that I may die or live. It is up to me to chose life.

Whether or not either of them has any regard for your life is not the point. However, one could argue, and I would, that neither has much, if any, regard for your life/well-being. The robber probably doesn't know or care about you. And God, who is said to love humanity, is willing to send you to a place of torment.
As stated above, he also makes a way to avoid it as well.

No. Why would he? He’d be aware that it’s not uncommon for people to carry money with them (or, at least, something of monetary value). Similarly, God would know that people have the capacity to trust, even when they have no valid reason to do so.
It is one way these scenarios are different to me, not preaching just explaining my filters: God sent the Lamb of God as the Supreme sacrifice to ensure a way out for me. You no doubt have heard of the Judge who found his friend before his bench. The Judge fined him as the law required but took off his robe and paid the fine.

Who’s responsible for taking out the bridge
I am for me.

/creating the place of torment in the first place?
God. Have you read "The Great Divorce" by CS Lewis?

Let me try to put it another way:

What would your reaction be if you found out that your best friend, who loves his children, built a torture chamber in his basement for the purposes of “punishing” his kids if they don’t respect him as he thinks they should? I imagine you’d be shocked and appalled by it
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I'd probably get the authorities involved.

But, for some reason, if God does basically the same thing, believers are okay with that. It’s mind-boggling to me.
Okay with it? It is a grievous thing to me.

Okay. Go ahead and tell me how you think it’s relevant and we’ll see where it leads. I suspect I already know.
What happens to me is the result of my choice to eat anything I want in the fridge but nothing from under the sink. Eat from the fridge and live, eat from under the sink and die. Give the robber money I live to only die later, give God my life (die to self, live for others), only to die later but have the promise of eternal life. All my choice - as I see it.

MacG