God doesn’t have to “tempt you” with eternal life, that’s just a bonus… your existence is enough of a gift (that you’ve enjoyed at least long enough to have children, else you would’ve done the intellectually honest thing if you’re really speaking truthfully and ended it a long time ago), and enough proof of God as well. I think you had a really bad experience with a Western religion (yes, Trinitarian faiths are here, they’re of Roman origin)/approaches to belief (understandably so, I’ve seen what American megachurches are like, and also the disconnect between belief and action) and think that has something to do with God. And the “problem of evil” seems to be doing your head in as well, as if a little difficulty (cause most evils are caused by people, the rest is illnesses, accidents and natural disasters) would take away from the gift that is life. Again, you can always just have nothing.
God doesn’t have to “tempt you” with eternal life, that’s just a bonus… your existence is enough of a gift (that you’ve enjoyed at least long enough to have children, else you would’ve done the intellectually honest thing if you’re really speaking truthfully and ended it a long time ago), and enough proof of God as well. I think you had a really bad experience with a Western religion (yes, Trinitarian faiths are here, they’re of Roman origin)/approaches to belief (understandably so, I’ve seen what American megachurches are like, and also the disconnect between belief and action) and think that has something to do with God. And the “problem of evil” seems to be doing your head in as well, as if a little difficulty (cause most evils are caused by people, the rest is illnesses, accidents and natural disasters) would take away from the gift that is life. Again, you can always just have nothing.