What determines how we perceive our place here? Are we just an accident of evolution, or were we purposely put here? If we are an accident then there is no purpose for our existence....but if we were put here by God, then we owe him our existence and are beholding to him and whatever rules he deems to be necessary.
But whether God put us here or not doesn't give us purpose and it offers no explanation either. The questions remain the same, regardless of whether we came along through some unknown material means or whether God created us.
If we go with the idea that God did in fact create us, what purpose does that bring to our existence? God haven't explained this purpose, except that he thought it was good.
Being saved in this current life to then be resurrected on a new Earth, is neither an explanation or something purposeful in regards to our existence.
If whatever purpose befalls us are revealed at this new Earth, then clearly our current life, must either be to prepare us for it or absolutely meaningless. But given the fact that we do not know the purpose with any of this, our current lives is probably best compared to that of a child in daycare, showing up to shovel sand around in a sandbox.
Does God leave us to figure it out for ourselves? I don’t believe so. According to the Bible, we are either the kind of citizen that God is looking for to inhabit his earth....or we are not.
Again how does that explain the purpose? Besides humans being there for the pleasure of God? Making us more like pets like that of a cat, rather than intelligent and free willed people.
God is choosing us as much as we think we are choosing him.
No, not even close. Again a pet when we adopt it as a young, doesn't choose us. We choose it and feed and take care of it and is there mostly for our pleasure. Some people will obviously save animals due to other more global goals, like diversity in nature and for the good of the planet. But for the most part when talking pets they are there for our pleasure.
God created humans because he wanted to, and again the best explanation we have for it, is that he thought it was good. We didn't choose anything and we were not given an explanation for it either.
In any organization there has to be hierarchy or there is anarchy. Rank and order are seen in all successful human corporations. Every level has their assigned role and they follow the orders of a superior, but all answer to the CEO, or they will lose their job. We have no difficulty understanding that order, or the reasons for termination of employment, so why do we balk at God being the CEO of his own creation?
Because in an organization you have a saying, you apply to be part of it and when doing so you agree to certain rules. If you are not happy with the terms you can leave or choose not to apply in the first place.
When it comes to life, we were not given a choice, we were born into the "organization" with rules forced upon us to follow. And if we do not agree with management, in a lot of cases the penalty will be death. So there is a huge different here.
There is no arguing with our Sovereign. The clay does not get to dictate to the potter.....like it or not, we have full control over our own thinking and actions, and will be judged accordingly.
Like I said....even though he has reasons to forgive his servants, God does not have a “Complaints Department”.
He gets to complain about us, not he other way around.
That is correct, but everything you say here, is what you would expect a slave to say, rather than someone arguing for why choosing to work with someone is the best option, because it makes the most sense and give you the best quality of life.
So it makes little sense, to then say that
"God is choosing us as much as we think we are choosing him." none of that exists in this arrangement, you either do or you get punished.