Your position is that god does not force anyone to worship him - ergo we have free will.
Interestingly, your god made the consequences of our decision polar opposites - heaven and hell - and by making the choice eternal bliss or eternal torture, god has in effect stacked the deck in his favor, for only an insane person would willingly choose an eternity of torture, agreed?
So our free will is only the freedom to choose between pleasure or pain? How is this a choice? If your god TRULY wanted to give us free will, he would either NOT REVEAL the reward/punishment awaiting us after death, or he would have given us two equally attractive choices, which would show RESPECT for our intelligence AND our free will, while also PROVING his benevolence beyond a shadow of a doubt. THAT, of course, would be a being WORTHY of admiration.
As it stands now, the "free will" your god gives is in name only. When examined closely, it's no different than coercion
2007-06-24
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