Dear God, why is my life so hard?

Lucian said:

How do you define God? Cause, from what you're saying, it seems to me like you define God as someone who is allowed to make His desires the final arbiter of reality. That sounds like universal-level dictatorship.

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God is the owner of all things because he is the one that designed and made them.

He made all of reality, which includes you and me, to work in a specific way and fulfill specific functions within in it which does make him the arbiter of reality since he is the one that determined how it should work when he first desired them to be that way before he created them.

Satan rebelled against this and man chose to follow him which is why the world is in the state it is in today and God has every right to correct it in any manner he wants to use to correct it. Man answers to God, God does not answer to man.

Lucian said:

Why is it enough for you? I'm not following. To me, it's akin to a slave saying: "I know that I have a miserable life due to my master having enslaved me, but I know that my master exists and that's good enough for me". Do explain to me how that is rational, but I can't understand it.

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To you it is like that. To me, it is not like that at all. I am not a slave.

Lucian said:

I'm not an atheist, but I also don't think that it is the atheists' fault for not believing in God. They just don't find the evidence convincing. One can't choose what one is convinced of. It's impossible to convince yourself of something your brain refuses to acknowledge as convincing.

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You are an atheist though. If you aren't an atheist, you know God exists. If you just believe God exists and you have no experience of God, you are an agnostic and an agnostic is very much akin to an atheist. That is what you are. If not, tell us why you believe God exists based on your own personal experience.

Lucian said:

How do you define God? Cause, from what you're saying, it seems to me like you define God as someone who is allowed to make His desires the final arbiter of reality. That sounds like universal-level dictatorship.

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It sounds to me like, well, God. If God is sovereign then God gets to make decisions even if we don't care for the decisions. If God needs your permission to act then that would make you God.

Lucian said:

How do you define God? Cause, from what you're saying, it seems to me like you define God as someone who is allowed to make His desires the final arbiter of reality. That sounds like universal-level dictatorship.

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So your God is not the same God as his God because his God is Sovereign and your God treats you as an equal.