Repentance is being sorry for your sin and wishing it had never been done
and resolving to make amends and never do it again.
God
is supposed to forgive sinners. Life
would be unbearable if he did not.
Many
sinners do not repent or at least do not repent promptly.
God
could force these to repent in such a way that they think they are repenting of
their own free will.
Then
he could stop forcing them so that they will keep up what they thought was
their own free repentance. That would
then be real repentance for they are doing it themselves. Repentance is not a once for all thing but an
attitude. You can repent your repentance
by turning away from a repentant attitude.
If
you are most free when you do good then God is respecting your free will best
when he forces you to repent. Religion
says that sin is really insanity and you can force cures on insane people. If God lets us commit sins that harm little
he should not let us commit murder or anything very harmful.
Also, we should be
forced to repent for if we aren’t, we will destroy the freedom of others by our
bad example.
People
would be better if there were a God.
There would be no stubborn sinners.
If
there is always sin in us until we die as the Bible says then that sin prevents
us doing good. It is more malicious to
do good with a sin in your heart than it is to do nothing. The good is desecrated and by doing it you
are after a reward for your hidden sin which is theft and hypocrisy. It is only the intention, not the results
that God cares about when evil exists so the damage does not bother him. When a person gets the grace of repentance
and is pardoned for sin these things are forced on him despite the sins that
are always present and the desire for the repentance and pardon are impossible
to a sinner. So it seems we are forced anyway.
But God should do better though.
Religion tells us that God cannot blackmail us into doing good for we
ought to do good freely and not to evade distress. The only reason it says that is because it is
obvious that he does not do much of it and not because reason says God would
not do a thing like that.
Reason
says the complete opposite.
Suppose
you have free will.
If
a person holds a gun to your head and will pull the trigger if you won’t do
what he tells you people will say you have had no choice if you do it. But is that really true? No!
Assuming we do make choices and are not just responding to mental
programs, you had to choose between death and doing what the man wanted and you
chose the latter. He forced you to make
a decision but he did not force you to make any particular decision. You did make decision. You made it freely. It is a mistake to say that God cannot
blackmail people to be good. Because he
won’t he is to blame for our sins. God
is worse than the devil for the devil only asks us to sin but God causes us to
sin by doing nothing or not enough about us.
God
could stop or reduce sin by threatening to pay us back double for every
sin. It is more just and fair to prevent
sin, than to scare. What God would be
doing would be the lesser injustice. It
is one of those things.
Religion
then tries to tell you that God could not make such an arrangement because it
would be removing free will. We have
already dealt with that lie but suppose it would be coercion. You could be forced to do something good such
as become a Third World Relief Worker now.
Then your freedom is restored. You
will think you chose the forced act. So
you will still wish you carry on the good it for no reason but just out of
love. That would mean that now you would
do the good thing even if there is no coercion.
So love and coercion can co-exist.
It is really only a person’s motives that count with God.
When
you have been forced to do some good deed or have committed one by mistake you would
think, “When it was going to happen anyway I wish I had done it freely and with
full knowledge.” That is the least you
can do for what is done is done so it proves that what you are compelled to do
can be turned into love.
We
love sometimes when we have the opportunity if we are free but if we are forced
to do good we are more likely to love all the time for then we won’t turn down
the opportunity. Coercion not freedom is
the road to love and freedom. If God
existed he would be the blackmailer with a heart of gold.
Christianity
and Islam blackmail people who believe to remain believers or else they will
rot in Hell forever. They have
blackmailer Gods. They evilly praise God
for not doing more good with his blackmailing.
If you are on your deathbed, you will feel you have no choice but to
turn to God for the alternative, everlasting torment in Hell, is only seconds
away.
God
doesn’t blackmail and if he is good then it follows that it is a sin to uphold
the law of the land. Laws are for
blackmailing people to be good.