It is not so much an accusation as a statement of fact. What I do need to do is to start saying it in a way that will help you to understand what you don't understand. I apologise for not being winsome.
I do it to show you and others that your criticisms are pointless since you don't understand what you are talking about. What you say in the remainder of this post is an additional example.
That is pretty close to true. Did you forget that God made us to provide Himself with companionship. If He had not made us He would have suffered. And if He thought of making us then did not the concept of us would have existed.
We have told you before that God is spirit and heaven and hell were spiritual places, right? Just a few posts ago I told you that the definition of heaven is the separation from God. Since it is people who choose to be either with God or separated from God then it is the people who choose to either be in communion (heaven) with God or in separation (hell) from God. It is not God who made these but the people who choose communion or separation.
It is better that God makes people who can choose to be in communion with Him than either for God to have made no one or for god to make people with no ability to make that choice.
Just as hell is a spiritual place it therefore does not have physical qualities like burning. When hell is described as burning it is a metaphor (we know you know what a metaphor is since you went on about allegories some time back but somehow knowing what a metaphor is does not mean that one knows when how to recognize one - even if one has been told several times). The metaphor is that since being burned is bad therefore being separated from God must be bad too. With free will you can decide to be in communion with God or not, so obviously those who reject God experience the bad consequences all on their own.
Interestingly enough burning is used as a metaphor elsewhere in the bible for purification. Could it be that those in hell will be purified and then later ready for heaven? If it is then it would still be true that it is better to get into to heaven like one escaping a burning house than like one who was burned up in the house.
If that is humor then it is funny. If not then that is a gross stereotype.
The suffering of those who are separated from God is entirely their own doing and God specifically says that it is not His will that they suffer. Because He does not want people to suffer He has made a plan for them to escape the suffering. It is available to all people regardless of how smart or capable they are. They need only reverse the initial act of sin (that was a mistrust of god) by trusting Him again with faith which allows God to forgive them in Grace.
As one who understands Christianity so well how is it that you missed the parts of the bible that explained why God created man? How do you not understand free will, which doesn't even require an understanding of the bible to get? How did you miss that thinking something is not the same as faith and that salvation is based completely on faith and not on thinking? How did you miss the verses that describe how God does not want us to be separated from Him? It is not like the separation from God is not the main theme of the bible after all. There are 66 books in most bibles and every single one of them describes the main theme with a different emphasis so that anyone can relate to at least one of them. If a person fails to at least understand one of them then they must be trying.
You could read the bible more than just twice or just once with an open mind. You could read even just one book of it a few times. You could attend when people here on the net say things. You could listen to the voice of God who explains things to those who cannot read them. You could observe the natural world and deduce that God exists and loves you. Or you could just ask honest and genuine questions which I have yet to see you do.
Since you bring up the mentally retarded we could note that there are people who are mentally retarded who understand the message of the bible. Yet you do not. Not because you are stupid but because you are willfull.
There are some who cannot read the bible. Yet with very little of the message explained to them they have faith. But this is not your excuse because with the internet at your disposal you can read thousands of versions of the bible and commentaries. You choose to see in the written word what is not there and miss what is there for all who want to see it.
You could ignore Christianity as most people do. Instead you are obviously driven to interact with Christians and discuss Christianity constantly. Have you considered the possibility that God has placed a hunger in you to search for Him?
