Quote Originally Posted by MacG View Post
"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.
If you give “it” to God, he’ll take you to heaven. If you don’t, he’ll send you to hell. No difference.

They both are warning me based on my choice that I may die or live. It is up to me to chose life.
Of course, your choices are yours to make. But, I’m not asking what choice you would make, and I’m not asking what your reasons for making it would be. The main area of concern (which I’ve stated repeatedly and which everyone here is skirting) is on the coerciveness of each proposition (i.e. Do this or I‘ll hurt you).

As stated above, he also makes a way to avoid it as well.
So does the robber.

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.
The robber, also, may have chosen not to load the gun so he wouldn’t have to risk actually killing you.
I’ll leave the scapegoat discussion for another time.

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.
I’m not familiar with that story. Do you have a link?

I am for me.
You’re responsible for your own actions. That’s true. Do you, or does anyone, deserve eternal torment for finite “crimes”? Is that just?

God.
And he’d have no qualms about sending you, and most of humanity, there. That’s monstrous.

Have you read "The Great Divorce" by CS Lewis?
No.

I'd probably get the authorities involved.
I would hope so, buy why would you? Isn’t your best friend doing virtually the same thing that God does/will do?

Okay with it? It is a grievous thing to me.
If you think it’s a just punishment, then you’re okay with it.

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.
As an adult, you know what’s under the sink will probably kill you if you ingest it. Adam and Eve would have been, presumably, child-like in their thinking. That makes a difference, doesn't it? I think it does.

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
In terms of an afterlife, if such a thing were real, it wouldn’t make a difference if you gave the money to the robber and died later vs. not giving him the money and dying now.