wilkes

Your scary stories don't have as much influence as back when the church could actually punish someone.

Who is the fool? The person who chose to live their life or the one who gives up everything for a false god?

God gave us free will choice. He does not want robots serving Him.

Psalm 14
King James Version
14 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.