“So let’s review this. God loves all of us. However, would you want to be with him if you hate God? Think of when you are with someone you despise. It is difficult and it is torture. This is why God gives us the choice. If we insist on living our lives without him, then we will get exactly what we have sought for all of our life.”
Okay, since God commands that will love him I will. Yep that’s just what I am going to do. I mean, I would not want to make God angry now would I? So yeah, if God is going to insisit okay then. I love God. I hope he is appeased now and that he will not leave me to myself all lonely and depressed.
“Okay, since God commands that will love him I will.”
Where does he command you to love him? He gives you the choice. You can choose to love him or reject him.
What you object to is that there are consequences to choices. Let me put it another way. Every choice has a consequence, some of which are forseeable, others which are not. If you choose to rob someone, you may get away with it, or you may go to jail and be arrested.
Is it unfair that the choice of robbing someone has the consequence of you getting arrested?
In the case of God, you have a choice. Accept him or reject him. Accepting him means you go to heaven, that is the consequence, and rejecting him means you go to hell.
It has nothing to do with ‘fairness’, but with consequences.