You sign up by having faith in Jesus Christ as your savior.
God made the world so God makes the rules, and He did. The punishment for sin is death. No man in the entirety of creation outside of Jesus Christ has ever lived a sinless life so we all deserve death.
Evil dies. If you have a problem with that I don't know what to tell you. The Bible is clear that faith in Christ is what saves you, so listening to some guy in a white hat telling you what to do or risk hell isn't required. Point being if you don't repent and have faith in Christ why should he save you? You broke His rules and won't even accept it and apologize and turn from evil. But if you simply ask to be forgiven and believe in him truly and fully you will be saved.
You can't find a single verse in the bible that isn't good or isn't true, because God is good and true because He is God. You don't really get a choice. Choosing not to believe will not save you. Living in denial won't make God go away. Just like ignoring your parents won't change the fact you're being punished for doing something wrong.
I've noticed that people love to argue half the bible. "Well if God is real what's up with x, y, and z? Doesn't sound that great if he sends people to hell!"
No no, if you want to assume God is real and the Bible is his word you have to accept the whole book. That includes that He is good and that going to hell is a punishment for sin. Sin which can only be cleansed through the blood of Jesus Christ, who died to save us despite how little we deserved it. He died a violent and painful death for a bunch of murderers, thieves, rapists, and adulterers. And if they have faith all of them can be saved and will be brought towards good as a result of that faith.
Only bad people go to hell. If you have faith in Christ you will be born anew with goodness in your heart (if it wasn't already there). If not you will go to hell.
The Bible is a book of love and peace. Everything it says is good so people SHOULD do what it says. But God gave us free will, so if they choose not to for their whole lives they can bear the responsibility of their actions. You don't get to complain after the fact that God should have done this or that to prove it to you better and you would have listened. You have everything you need right now and it's up to you to decide what to do with it.
I'm incompatible with the concept of faith. People can have faith there's a teddy-bear suction-cupped to the dark side of one of Jupitor's moons... Doesn't meant there is. So clearly one can have faith in things not true so using it a some reliable mechanism to determine truth is faulty.
That's the thing... Existence is tyranny. I exist, therefore I must play this ridiculous game, I can't just live my life free of judgement of some deity with questionable creation practices.
Free will, huh? You mean that rope God allegedly gives to everyone, including the ones he knows will hang themselves with it for all of eternity? Great guy! Does he give children loaded guns too?
Again, not worthy of my endorsement. I think the Bible is right about some things, but it's not THE TRUTH... I think it has elements of it. Terrible right? For thinking such a thing I should be punished for all eternity.
Every single one of us deserves death for our sins. Jesus Christ died for us so we could live.
I can't make the blind see. Only you can choose to open your heart to the truth. You clearly live with some deep hatred/disdain toward God, based on what the world has led you to believe in life, rather than who and what He actually is. If you do choose to have faith there are very real and apparent effects. And there's nothing to lose choosing to have faith in something greater than yourself or what can be proven completely and absolutely. If you're wrong you'll die and there will be nothing so it won't matter. If you're right you get eternity with your loving creator.
The last thing I'll say is there's way more evidence for God than there is for a teddy bear on one of Jupiter's moons. I came to faith through evidence I deemed enough to make that faith a valid position to hold. Though I already had a strong, spiritual I guess, draw even before I believed so my standard for "convincing enough" evidence may have been lower. It was certainly much higher than some nonsense, random, baseless claim about a teddy bear on the moon, simply reading a book and going "yea alright", or going to a church all my life and never questioning what they say.
Edit: I'd also add that the idea you take nothing on faith and are incompatible with the entire idea itself is, forgive me, but frankly laughable. Everybody has faith in something, it's part of being human. Some are better than others at managing it in the face of concrete evidence. This is true in a completely naturalistic world or in one created by God.
Perhaps you've noticed that death is already here, and is unavoidable. God offers a way out, through Jesus. It's that simple. God's morality is perfect, unaffected by incomplete situational knowledge or bias. He will do what is right.
What's up with all the death? The fear motivated coercion via the concept of Hell? Worship me or I'll burn you forever!!!!
Sounds like a great guy! Where do I sign up? LOL
You sign up by having faith in Jesus Christ as your savior.
God made the world so God makes the rules, and He did. The punishment for sin is death. No man in the entirety of creation outside of Jesus Christ has ever lived a sinless life so we all deserve death.
Evil dies. If you have a problem with that I don't know what to tell you. The Bible is clear that faith in Christ is what saves you, so listening to some guy in a white hat telling you what to do or risk hell isn't required. Point being if you don't repent and have faith in Christ why should he save you? You broke His rules and won't even accept it and apologize and turn from evil. But if you simply ask to be forgiven and believe in him truly and fully you will be saved.
You can't find a single verse in the bible that isn't good or isn't true, because God is good and true because He is God. You don't really get a choice. Choosing not to believe will not save you. Living in denial won't make God go away. Just like ignoring your parents won't change the fact you're being punished for doing something wrong.
I've noticed that people love to argue half the bible. "Well if God is real what's up with x, y, and z? Doesn't sound that great if he sends people to hell!"
No no, if you want to assume God is real and the Bible is his word you have to accept the whole book. That includes that He is good and that going to hell is a punishment for sin. Sin which can only be cleansed through the blood of Jesus Christ, who died to save us despite how little we deserved it. He died a violent and painful death for a bunch of murderers, thieves, rapists, and adulterers. And if they have faith all of them can be saved and will be brought towards good as a result of that faith.
Only bad people go to hell. If you have faith in Christ you will be born anew with goodness in your heart (if it wasn't already there). If not you will go to hell.
The Bible is a book of love and peace. Everything it says is good so people SHOULD do what it says. But God gave us free will, so if they choose not to for their whole lives they can bear the responsibility of their actions. You don't get to complain after the fact that God should have done this or that to prove it to you better and you would have listened. You have everything you need right now and it's up to you to decide what to do with it.
I'm incompatible with the concept of faith. People can have faith there's a teddy-bear suction-cupped to the dark side of one of Jupitor's moons... Doesn't meant there is. So clearly one can have faith in things not true so using it a some reliable mechanism to determine truth is faulty.
That's the thing... Existence is tyranny. I exist, therefore I must play this ridiculous game, I can't just live my life free of judgement of some deity with questionable creation practices.
Free will, huh? You mean that rope God allegedly gives to everyone, including the ones he knows will hang themselves with it for all of eternity? Great guy! Does he give children loaded guns too?
Again, not worthy of my endorsement. I think the Bible is right about some things, but it's not THE TRUTH... I think it has elements of it. Terrible right? For thinking such a thing I should be punished for all eternity.
Every single one of us deserves death for our sins. Jesus Christ died for us so we could live.
I can't make the blind see. Only you can choose to open your heart to the truth. You clearly live with some deep hatred/disdain toward God, based on what the world has led you to believe in life, rather than who and what He actually is. If you do choose to have faith there are very real and apparent effects. And there's nothing to lose choosing to have faith in something greater than yourself or what can be proven completely and absolutely. If you're wrong you'll die and there will be nothing so it won't matter. If you're right you get eternity with your loving creator.
The last thing I'll say is there's way more evidence for God than there is for a teddy bear on one of Jupiter's moons. I came to faith through evidence I deemed enough to make that faith a valid position to hold. Though I already had a strong, spiritual I guess, draw even before I believed so my standard for "convincing enough" evidence may have been lower. It was certainly much higher than some nonsense, random, baseless claim about a teddy bear on the moon, simply reading a book and going "yea alright", or going to a church all my life and never questioning what they say.
Edit: I'd also add that the idea you take nothing on faith and are incompatible with the entire idea itself is, forgive me, but frankly laughable. Everybody has faith in something, it's part of being human. Some are better than others at managing it in the face of concrete evidence. This is true in a completely naturalistic world or in one created by God.
Perhaps you've noticed that death is already here, and is unavoidable. God offers a way out, through Jesus. It's that simple. God's morality is perfect, unaffected by incomplete situational knowledge or bias. He will do what is right.
I disagree... He's a god with a fragile ego and blood-lust issues.
Not worthy of my endorsement.