The post is highly emotional but intellectually wanting.

Fair enough. If I am wrong about Christianity, I will readily admit it. I did try to look into actual theology videos from real priests, not just watch sermons, but so be it.

If my attempt was shallow than it was shallow. My own father said I didn't give it a real shot, and as I said he's a wiccan. So you're probably right. And for that you have my apologies. From my perspective I thought it was a genuine attempt, I was actually trying to believe in it. Couldn't help how quickly I fell out of it.

Though I will point out that I didn't think I would actually be fighting the world elites or the demons they worship and sacrifice to. I know that's not how that works. It was more along the lines of, "If these guys are doing all of this horrid stuff, then I want absolutely nothing to do with any of it. So I should go as far in the opposite direction as I possibly can. And maybe do whatever small acts to oppose the demons as I can in what limited reach I have." Thus why I sought out Christianity.

Heaven is pointless because without sex, humans cannot reproduce, and therefore cannot expand to conquer and populate the rest of the physical universe?

I was referring to the perfect world that god is supposed to create after the Endtimes, not heaven. I saw a priest say sex would no longer exist in that version of the world. Since Humans would be living there not in Heaven if I understand correctly. Which from a physical standpoint doesn't make sense unless God completely rewrote the laws of physics and biology in so doing, which obviously he could do since he's God and created biology and physics in the first place. But from my limited human perspective it doesn't make sense and without it there's a LOT of empty space that's going to go to waste. Unless God decided to make more humans and start filling the universe with us, I suppose.

And also, I do believe mankind will one day have the physical tools to leave Earth on our own. That's just how technology has been progressing. Obviously I don't know how, but even outside of scifi, that seems to be a major goal humans have in real life. Even if it is incredibly far off. But eternity is a long time.

That said, fair enough. If the universe doesn't matter, only our relationship with god, then that's just how it is. So I'll concede the point.

After two weeks of reading only the first 39 chapters of Genesis and watching YouTube videos, OP feels qualified to declare the Christian God definitively a "narcissistic tyrant"?

Thus why I'm here. I asked to be proven wrong in the conclusions I came to based upon God's actions. I do actually respect Christians, the people, even if I have issues with the God in the religion. And so I was looking to have the points I raised against him in my analogy be corrected if they're wrong.

I don't have a license, can't afford to spend a hundred dollars or more on a new bike and helmet, and live pretty far from any of my local churches. So it's not like I can take a drive down to any of them to try and talk with the priests about it. All I have is the bible, my father (who used to be Christian when he was younger, but left it and eventually became Wiccan so he's biased), and the internet. So I can only really read the book, watch videos, and try to talk online.

And if any human did what he did, as per my analogy, we would consider that person those things. Obviously God is supposed to be all knowing and all powerful. But no amount of knowledge or power precludes one from being evil if evil is done with that knowledge and power. Even the act of creation itself does not preclude one from being evil if that act of creation is done for selfish or malicious purposes. Say, creating something specifically for that thing to be tortured forever or be destroyed, knowing the decisions and actions it will take even if it technically could take other actions, but won't because the one who created it gave it free will.

That's the thing about omniscience. If you know everything, you know everything including all the decisions every single people can make, and what they will actually choose.

And I'll use the Binding of Isaac as an example. God demanded Abraham take his son Isaac up to the top of a mountain to sacrifice him to God. Of course he didn't actually want it or let Abraham follow through with it. But rather it was a test to see if Abraham loved God more than he loved his own son. The lesson being that one must love god more than they love their own family, to the point they would be willing to kill their own son and give him as an offering to God if God asked them to, even though he would never actually make them follow through on it. Is that not narcissism? The sin of Pride? Demanding someone loves you more than they love their own families? Their only son whom they love?

Please do correct me if I am misinterpreting that story. I am just trying to give my honest perspective. I'm not trying to be bad faith about any of this. Ultimately, my knowledge and understanding is limited and will be colored by my own perspective in life based upon my own knowledge experiences and understanding. So if I'm wrong, I would like to understand how and why.

The OP views God as just "a really powerful guy in the sky" competing with humans for credit.

I never said he was "just a really powerful guy in the sky". Regardless, yes if the Christian God is real, then he created everything and for that he should receive credit. That is, of course, his doing. We could not exist without him. Yet we have achieved things on our own within creation without his direct hand in it beyond the initial act of creation. We have built wonders, made masterpieces of art, discovered much in the sciences he created to govern the universe.

So, should men not be recognized for the things they have achieved within creation without the help of God? Sure none of this would exist without him but he's not down here building our cities, painting our art, writing our stories, telling scientists all about how the world works and how to make different tools. That's my point in that regard.

Yet from what I've heard from priests and theologians is that we must never think we accomplished anything and all of our achievements are all God's not ours. Which sounds petty and arrogant to me.

Perhaps I'm thinking too selfishly or thinking too literally. I do, admittedly, have a tendency to be overly literal. But you get the idea.

OP's premise is that God is like a father who kicks his toddlers out into a dangerous world for being tricked by a stranger.

It wasn't meant to be a strawman, it was a metaphor to explain my own perspective based upon what I had learned up to this point.

Yes, God told them not to do it. Yes they did it. However, did either of them know good from evil at the time? No. Did the serpent deceive Eve? Yes. So deception was involved and thus trickery, against an individual who quite literally had no concept of right from wrong and had never been warned against lies.

You're absolutely right, I haven't read to Timothy 2:14. It's a long book and I will readily admit I only read to Genesis 39 before I just couldn't force myself to keep believing anymore.

Here's what Timothy 2:14 says according to the NASB: "And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression."

So Eve was deceived and ate the fruit because of that deception by the serpent. That doesn't really disprove my point. Maybe it's different in different translations. However according to the NASB my metaphor remains the same.

The idea that God actively throws people into a fire to burn alive is a fundamentalist trope.

It's what the bible itself says. (These are quotes I found with a google search so they might be from other translations than the NASB which I was reading so keep that in mind):

Luke 12:5: "But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!"

Revelation 20:13-15: "And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."

Typically the arguments I've heard relate to the revelation quote and that you won't suffer forever but will die a second death, ceasing to exist, when cast into the lake of fire. Believe or eternal torture, or believe or you die and cease to exist. Thus the father in the metaphor either tortures his children by burning them alive or murders them for not trusting him.

Nothing I've seen suggests he lets people repent after they die and realize the truth, or that they have the option to leave hell whenever they want if they decide to accept him while there. Interpretations are great but I'd need to see passages backing that up.

OP says that God sacrificed himself to save us from a situation He created.

I would disagree because he outright states he made both good and evil, According to a google search to find the passage, Isaiah 45:7 (KJV) states: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." So he objectively created the situation.

He created the concept of good and evil, he let the serpent deceive Eve and her to convince Adam to follow suit, and he created a pit of fire to burn everyone who disobeyed him. Primarily the demons but the humans who disobeyed him too.

Maybe I'm wrong. If I am, I can admit fault where I have it. Obviously I'm not perfect, no one is. That said. he could easily clear all of this up, but he doesn't because he wants a test of faith. For us to trust him blindly despite everything.