Think about what you saying about what you believe.
You believe that there is a real supreme being that created everything; knows everything about everything; and has comparable supreme power that allows him to exercise his will unchallenged over the combined forces of our universe across its infinite time-space continuum and everything that exists outside the limits of our human physical senses and our conscious intelligence - and which, therefore, are beyond our ability to "know"..
Fair enough. Science cannot prove you wrong; there is no inconsistency in the internal logic; and I admit that that I do not even know how to begin to think about anything - anywhere - ever - that does not operate according to the physics of our universe.
There is a problem, though, if you want to bring judgment into the equation. Unless the things we are to be judged by are knowable beyond any doubt at all; free of any ambiguity; not subject to interpretation, absolutely consistent across every tribe, society, culture and every variable historical circumstance ever encountered by everyone who has ever lived, is living, or ever will live - then you have a situation where God's creation is designed, intentionally, so that most (and arguably all) people are doomed to failure, and it is beyond human ability for anyone to know if they are saved or doomed until after they are dead.
Let's just assume that there is a true religious belief system with real rules.
Regardless of whichever religion (and remember that some Christians think that other Christians are headed to hell in a hand basket - a pattern found in every large theistic-based religion) that might be - it will include only a small minority of every person ever born.
Now we have system of logic that we can define in our universe and understand. And what it tells us is - if the presumption of God is true, and that God is both our creator and judge - then the God in question is a humanity-hating SOB who is absolutely indifferent to human pain and suffering either during our earthly existence or whatever fate awaits us afterward.
You believe that there is a real supreme being that created everything; knows everything about everything; and has comparable supreme power that allows him to exercise his will unchallenged over the combined forces of our universe across its infinite time-space continuum and everything that exists outside the limits of our human physical senses and our conscious intelligence - and which, therefore, are beyond our ability to "know"..
Fair enough. Science cannot prove you wrong; there is no inconsistency in the internal logic; and I admit that that I do not even know how to begin to think about anything - anywhere - ever - that does not operate according to the physics of our universe.
There is a problem, though, if you want to bring judgment into the equation. Unless the things we are to be judged by are knowable beyond any doubt at all; free of any ambiguity; not subject to interpretation, absolutely consistent across every tribe, society, culture and every variable historical circumstance ever encountered by everyone who has ever lived, is living, or ever will live - then you have a situation where God's creation is designed, intentionally, so that most (and arguably all) people are doomed to failure, and it is beyond human ability for anyone to know if they are saved or doomed until after they are dead.
Let's just assume that there is a true religious belief system with real rules.
Regardless of whichever religion (and remember that some Christians think that other Christians are headed to hell in a hand basket - a pattern found in every large theistic-based religion) that might be - it will include only a small minority of every person ever born.
Now we have system of logic that we can define in our universe and understand. And what it tells us is - if the presumption of God is true, and that God is both our creator and judge - then the God in question is a humanity-hating SOB who is absolutely indifferent to human pain and suffering either during our earthly existence or whatever fate awaits us afterward.