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I might have seen the reason behind that if human temptations were completely mental, like a hobby or something. But a lot of them are not. People are tempted to wrong because of their hormones. If god did want us to be good, he wouldn't have made these hormones that made us want to do bad things.

Also, I keep getting annoyed at the fact that there are mentally ill people and this "free will" thing. Where is their free will? They are not fully responsible for anything they do, and they can control their actions a lot less than normal human beings.

i'm going to paraphrase here but in civilizationf our when you optain religion there is a quote "Nature's beauty in and of itself instills in mans mind the very thought of God." Which looked at carefully means that some pople have to have somebody out there who made something because the very idea that its just there on its own is to overwhelming.

Good point there, but the fact is that when one being controls both sides of a deal he made for people to choose from and made it look like we are to blame ourselves for the choices when he could have made it easier to choose him, then its a scam.

I agree. If there is a god, he only wants the people who are capable of making the right choice even when the wrong options are available.

The thing I don't get, though, is why he has to put us through this "test" in the first place. If he's omniscient, he knows everything that will happen, so why make us go through this life of suffering if he could simply take the good ones to his heaven?

Oh, wait, he loves all of us, so he wants to give us all a chance, even the potentially hell-bound ones, who he would be sad to see punished for eternity. An exercise in futility? (Unless god is not omniscient after all.)

And then... if you're going to punish someone, isn't the whole point to make them learn from their mistakes?? Hell offers no chance of that, not to my knowledge anyway.