“If God loves the world, why does he make people choose between loving
him back or spending eternity in hell? That sounds more like an ultimatum than
love.”
I agree: that choice does sound a bit like an
ultimatum. The Bible also frames it as a
command.
Why is that? Why is there no third option where God simply
leaves me alone to do my own thing, and I leave him alone to do his?
Surely a policy of benign indifference would be more loving than condemning
millions of people to a lake of fire.
I wonder what simply leaving humanity to its own devices
would look like ...