[QUOTE="Diametraphine"][QUOTE="blackregiment"]
Here is a bit of irony to consider. Many humans often live many aspects of their lives in a way that contradicts the way they approach God. For example in a job. They accept the rules and standards of their employer and do not openly mock and complain about them. They accept that if they do not meet those standards, they will not be rewarded and may even be separated from that employer. They do not spend their time trying to redefine and change their employers rules and standards of performance. If the rules do not permit moonlighting, they don't try and get the rules changed. They accept these things if they really want to work there.
The same goes in their relationships. If they love their mate, they show it and accept the standards of the relationship. They don't cheat or spend time complaining that their mate wants them to love them and put them first. They don't complain that if their mate requires fidelity that this in unfair. Most will accept that if they violate the rules of the relationship there are consequences, separation, or even the end of the relationship. If they truly want that relationship, they will live by the rules and go the extra mile to show their mate their love for them and the importance of that relationship to their lives.
When it comes to their relationship with God however, the opposite is often true. Many humans have difficulty accepting the sovereignty of the Lord of His creation. They want to show that His rules are unfair, that He has no right to make them, that they are wrong, that our standards are better. They want to be able to choose to freely break His rules and then still not be punished and also receive the same rewards as those that choose to follow Him and His commandments. They want to reject His plan of reconciliation yet still be reconciled with him in the end. God is sovereign over His creation. It is His way, not ours.
Selah
blackregiment
A few differences being. 1. You're getting paid for working, not being paid in promises made by a book. 2. You will be punished if you do things wrong in work, not just having these promises taken away from you. 3. Work isn't having blind faith in someone which wants to control you and your entire life.I don't accept those premises in that your references are temporal in nature and irrelevant to the point I was making. God's plan is eternal in nature. In our natural state, we are already separated from God by our sin. God is sovereign, Heaven is His domain. We are His creation. He can and does make the rules for who will reside with him eternally in Heaven. We are free to accept His plan of eternal salvation and life, and eternal fellowship with Him or reject it.
Let me ask you a question, God ever sat down with you and had a nice chit chat? Told you all about his plan and why you should believe in it? Or did you read it in a book written byyyyy, people? A plan made by PEOPLE, a plan which says "If you are good in life and worship this deity blindly" You will die then go to heaven, somewhere OTHER than Earth. Which means, once those people have spent their lives being good and died, they don't have to worry about them revolting and rioting eh? But hey, believe what you want. I refuse to believe in the word of God spoken by Man, which it ALWAYS has been. 
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