Life (as it continues to adhere to Biblical truths) has taught me never to make that assumption and that I am to be even more suspicious of those who would make such a claim. Once upon a time I was one to make and believe such claims and sometimes in my moral failings still do.
Your argument of delusion cuts both ways and that was my original point. I have “absolutely” no fear of death you have “absolutely” no fear of judgment.
Why would an infinitely-compassionate God want us to live in any kind of fear, at all?
God is also Holy, this trait of God in scripture is raised to a higher level than any of the others. If God were to strike me dead on the way to work it would be a just action based solely on the sins of this morning. “Extremely moral” is not good enough, a passing grade only goes to the perfectly moral and perfectly Holy. Once you understand this, you will understand why all of us need Christ. Start with Matthew 5:20 – 5:48 the Scribes and Pharisees would be the ones that we would think outwardly are “extremely moral” )
When all else fails, read the instructions (CCEL > Bibles and Commentaries)
(Q)Life (as it continues to adhere to Biblical truths) has taught me never to make that assumption and that I am to be even more suspicious of those who would make such a claim.(/Q)
Too bad, your suspicion is completely misplaced, here. Anybody that doesn’t believe in God, as you define him, is automatically evil and worthy of suspicion and mistrust? We wouldn’t need armies or policemen if everybody was as moral as I am. Please explain to me why God would allow an innocent and otherwise perfectly healthy baby to be conceived, fully gestated to term, then die in birth, strangled by it own umbilical cord? What’s the point of that? To punish the parents for their sins? Does your infinitely-compassionate God have anything to do with that? And if your God is so all-knowing - why did he create Satan, with the full foreknowledge of all the trouble and pain that would cause mankind (and God himself?) You people crack me up. You are living in a fantasy world, a fairy tale written by superstitious primitives over 2 millenia ago.
So your argument is that God could be justifiably much more violent against us, and therefore we should be happy he's given us SOME mercy? In other words, we should 'take the mercy we can get' from God?