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> I think God has more to worry about than someone looking at naked people in the privacy of their home with their wife.

That’s interesting but not overly relevant. What does God think? He tells us in the Bible what He thinks, if only we pay attention and find out.

> I think if you hit your thumb with a hammer and yell “dammit” that’s not even the slightest equivalent “sin-wise” as killing someone.

Again, what you think is interesting, but it is what God thinks that counts. He says “the wages of sin is death”. He doesn’t suggest that there might be time off for good behavior, and He doesn’t provide much room for plea bargaining. Big sin, little sin — it’s all sin and it is all treated the same way.

> If God is almighty as most believe, creator of the heavens and Earth and the whole universe, omniscient and all knowing etc...why would he need the obedience of us puny mortals? Is he insecure?

Why does that matter? Perhaps we are His hobby — why do you “need” your roses to bloom in your garden? The answer may be as simple as “because our obedience gives Him pleasure”. If so, that is a fair answer. We’re not told why, and it really doesn’t matter anyway. It is enough that He says He wants it.

> You’re telling me he has a place in the lake of fire for people who curse after a painful accident right next to a serial killer?

Yup. I think that is what God is telling you. Sin is bad, He doesn’t want any of it. He also provides a way to be forgiven of sin, so you don’t have to take your place in the “lake of fire”, but if you choose not to be forgiven...

> Furthermore, he may be a loving god, but he certainly likes to spread the misery around his big blue marble - abject poverty, mass murder, horrible wars and natural disasters, child-rapists, serial killers, muslim fanatics that murder innocents, disease, Obama, etc..

You have God mixed up with Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. He never promised to provide us with a trouble-free life or even to be always-benevolant. Much of the misery in this world is caused by evil men and not by God. Why are you holding Him accountable for that?

> Finally, the thought that any mortal could even begin to understand “god’s plan” or attempt to explain it in any way is just foolish.

It’s not at all foolish if He has spelled it out for you in plain English in the Bible — which He has done. It is, however, foolish to ignore such guidance as He has given.

> So...Try and be good to your fellow man. Follow the golden rule. If cursing on occasion, or looking at porn on occasion means a seat by the lake of fire pool, I guess it’s going to be hot down there.

Guess so.