The conditional premise is a useful reasoning device that usually begins with the word IF.
If a Creator exists, then that Creator loves us because the caring kind of love is the most powerful force in the universe.
If a Creator exists, then that Creator loves unconditionally because the caring kind of love (not the romantic) is always unconditional. Conditional love, I will love you if you please me, is not love at all. It is arrogant manipulation (reward and punishment). It puts someone's need for love under the threat of being withheld as a punishment.
If a Creator exists, and we are loved unconditionally, then we are loved regardless of what we believe. It does not matter whether we are theists, atheists or agnostics.
If a Creator exists, and we are loved unconditionally, then the idea of punishment as instruction for misbehavior makes sense but the notion that Hell, an afterlife of eternal punishment for any reason is absurd and the notion of eternal punishment for non-belief in a religious doctrine is absurdly unjust.
If a Creator exists, and we are loved unconditionally, then even serial killers, with their sick minds, are loved although their terrible acts would cause the Creator profound sadness. Thus, we should see those terrible acts as symptoms of sickness and not as evil.
If a Creator exists, and it wanted us to be certain of its existence, then it would find a simple but very effective way that would leave none of us in doubt. So, if a Creator exists, it must have a good reason for leaving us in doubt. Therefore, when Jews claim to be the tribe chosen to pass the word of the Creator's existence, we should regard the claim as false.
If a Creator exists, and it wants us to have freewill along with moral guidance, it would not offer that guidance in a tribal language destined to become obsolete, commonly mistranslated, and commonly misinterpreted. That would be a dumb thing to do, especially for an all-knowing Creator.
If a Creator exists, and if it wants us to have freewill along with moral guidance, it would provide people of all nations with a simple way to discern right from wrong. The fact that we probably have such a remarkable gift is not compelling evidence that a Creator exists, but it should raise the suspicion. (My thread "Morality Made Simple" is based on the idea that conscience is a simple, cross-cultural moral guidance system)
If a Creator exists, and if it wants us to have freewill along with moral guidance, then moral progress would probably be the purpose of our lives. And, if that is so, then there should be evidence, a long-term trend, showing that our species has indeed been making moral progress.There is such evidence.
You don't believe that humanity has been making moral progress? I won't re-post a lengthy argument that I made recently, but here's one link that another poster provided.
Why the World Is Not Falling Apart
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