I liked what Cimics added here. I really doubt that you would like being alone, with no human contact, or any contact at all (no animals, nor even bugs). I'm with EB, I think that is just tough talk. From what I hear, solitary confinement really wears on you.
"In heaven you would have to submit to the will of your god. You would not rule yourself, your god would rule you."
Hmmmmm. But what if God's will was that you were happy and content and satisfied? Do you have any objections to being happy? By all accounts, this is what Christians believe will happen in heaven, though I don't think anyone really knows how it will go down.
Would it really be such a big deal to discover that you were not 100% autonomous? Is that fact really enough to make you refuse every good pleasure offered to you? It seems to me like there is a healthy principle gone very bad here. Honestly, it just sounds childish. It would be like my kid refusing pudding and ice cream just because I'm the boss of the house.
I say all this because even now you aren't really 100% autonomous. There are a million people with authority over you who can have their way with you if they wanted. Do you consign yourself to being miserable on account of this one fact?
If so, that doesn't sound liberating at all.
""To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.""
"The first quote flatly contradicts the second quote."
Does it? I was thinking of you when I quoted it. :)
"The first implies the choice is follow your god or be left alone."
Ok, close enough.
"The second flatly states follow your god or suffer wrath and anger. Still sounds like a rapist to me."
But what if the 'wrath and anger' is actually the part where you are being 'left alone'? You've already conceded that such a thing could exist, that 'being left alone' can follow from 'wrath and anger.' You admitted it when you said:
"If I was ever in prison I would start fights on purpose just to land in solitary."
So you can already see how punishment can be being 'left alone.'
And just so you know that there is precedent for this line of thinking in the NT Scriptures, consider this passage:
2 Thes. 1:9... "They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power..."
See, shut out. Left alone. Just what you want; allegedly.
Now, I was thinking of you when I cited the other passage because you clearly see 'following god' or having to 'obey his will' as something that swallows us whole and leaves nothing. This is nothing like what Christians believe will happen. Christians believe that the end process is that you will be more 'you' afterwards then you ever were before, and conversely, if you choose separation, you will in fact become less 'you.' Because you only have any 'you' at all by virtue of your relationship with God. I understand you don't buy it, I'm just making sure you understand it. So look at the passage again:
"who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality,"
What? they seek glory? they seek honor? Honor? And you thought that the end result was being God's door mat for wiping the mud off his feet. There is a clear place for the self in Christianity. This passage shows that you can seek 'glory and honor' even. So I guess it comes down to what kind of 'glory and honor' and whether your selfishness is healthy, or contorted. There is a godly selfishness.