@FMF
What is the purpose of torturing people for their lack of belief after they die if what they found to be non-credible threats had not succeeded in turning them into believers?
Your questions as asked still to me contain a malicious and slanderous innuendo.
But I'll reason it out innuendo that God is a bully and all (not agreeing of course)
Take this statement:
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold down the truth in unrighteousness. (Rom. 1:18)
1.) [i] You responds - " I don't believe in God, or God's anger, the unrighteousness of men, or the ungodliness of men, or holding down the truth about it. I am unpersuaded. Such information has not changed ANYTHNG about my thinking, living, concern, what so ever.
Therefore what is the purpose of this information?
2.) The purpose has not changed just because it had not effect on you.
Still -
" For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold down the truth in unrighteousness. " (Rom. 1:18)
Why would your ignoring the information in incredulity cause the warning to change in purpose/
And since you are not the ONLY one in the universe as a recipient of the information, why would its purpose be abandoned just because you among many others give no heed to it?
You may argue "What is the purpose of further speaking this to me when nothing about it has had an effect on me because it is unbelievable?"
This is akin to saying that because a sign says "Speed Limit 50 or else a Fine" and you ignore it, why should the sign be thought to have no purpose for anyone else?
Do you think the sign is only there for you?
The same is true of the message of God's love in Christ.
"In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son a propitiation concerning our sins." (1 John 4:10)
1.) [i] You responds - " I don't believe in God, or God's love for us, God's Son, God sending His Son, sending His Son as a propitiation, or any need for such propitiation. I am unpersuaded. Such information has not changed ANYTHNG about my thinking, living, concern, whatsoever.
Therefore what is the purpose of this information?
2.) The purpose has not changed just because it had not effect on you.
Still -
"In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son a propitiation concerning our sins." (1 John 4:10)
Why should there be an adjustment of the purpose of the information simply because it has no effect on you?
What selfishness decides that the information has no purpose because it is useless to you ? You are not the center of the universe such that no purpose for you has to mean no purpose to anyone else.
In fact of NO ONE heeds the information still its purpose to inform has not changed.
Was the threat supposed to coerce people into becoming believers while they were alive?
I gave a example of a message of God's anger and a message of God's love.
The messages having NO EFFECT on you, of either His wrath or His love, does not make either the messages, or His wrath, or His love become of no further purpose.
You are FREE for them to have no meaning to you.
And others are FREE to allow them or one or the other of them, to have meaning to them.
But you may say - "But I heard it. I don't want to hear it again because it had no meaning the first time. Every subsequent time it STILL has no meaning."
I would say if baseball annoys you then don't hang around Yankee Stadium.
Near there you are likely to hear about baseball. A Spirituality Forum open to the public is likely a place where you may here once or more than once something like
Romans 1:18 or
First John 4:10.