If everything I said was the absolute correct thing to say and you were wondering if you should take a job, buy a stock, or just plain stay home from work one day. Wouldn't it be wise for you to consult me? Especially if you were not sure of the outcome?

So when God says: Do as I say... I think you would be a fool to ignore him or go back on what he said. It just doesn't make sense.

But if there is no God, why even worry about it? Just go on about your business and when you die, if you march off into oblivion, so much the better for you.

However, if I am right and you are wrong, and you have not diligently sought after the truth of the matter. You can spend an eternity angry at the Rule-Maker, completely justified in your own mind, that you did the right thing. There are many fools who will spend an eternity suffering on a conjured form of principle. Not because they wished to be free or that God is actually wrong, but because they were foolish enough to think they had a better answer than the God of the Universe. They were foolish enough to think that they could accuse a perfect system of being flawed.

The Bible says: "The fool says in his heart that there is no God."

Just because you can articulate a problem, does not mean there is one.

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"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution." March 4, 1869, Grant's First Inaugural Address

First you say I'm attempting to impose an understanding on something that defies understanding, then you push forward your own understanding? come now.

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True knowledge exists in being aware of what you don't know.

A difference that is irrelevant. I stated there is a truth beyond god which god has no ability to change. God is bound by logical possibilities which is true a priori.
Highest authority only in that he has the greatest understanding of that which is greater than himself. He swears by perfect knowledge and rational, yet both knowledge and rational require external standards to have any meaning.

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True knowledge exists in being aware of what you don't know.

If everything you said, came true, wouldn't it be difficult, if not impossible to lie. What if you were the ultimate benevolent ruler? So not only everything you said was true, but it was perfect in its value towards all. Now add in omnipotence and you now have an unassailable diety who is not only perferct, but perfectly loving and perfectly powerful. No matter what He does, it can't be argued against, because he has thought of all the possibilities in advance. You just can't imagine it, can you? Neither can I. But its fun trying.

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"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution." March 4, 1869, Grant's First Inaugural Address

If one can't imagine it, then one has no reason to believe it can't also be logically impossible at the same time. For example, can you imagine a round square?

I still ask, what does it mean to be "benevolent" without an external standard of benevolence? To have any properties at all, something must have something else external to itself.

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True knowledge exists in being aware of what you don't know.

I know you'll pretend I didn't ask the question, but I'll ask it anyway.

How can we have free choice, and a perfect, all knowing, all powerful God?

If he has perfect knowledge, then he'd would know who was going to chose him, and who was not. If God doesn't know, then his knowledge is limited, and flawed.

If God knows all and he knows I'm going to reject him, and then I choose to accept him, that would make God wrong, and less than all knowing. Can I choose to make God wrong?

You can't have it both ways.

Can God create a more powerful God than himself?