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The structure isn't really that hard to follow. If I tell a girl that I really want her to choose to have sex with me of her own free will and that if she doesn't I will shoot her in the head and it will be her fault for choosing not to have sex with me, are you saying that is rape?
How is this different from God saying He wants me to choose Him of my own free will and that if I don't He will cast me into a lake of fire to burn in eternal torment?
the lake of fire isn't literal - it's a metaphor. the threat isn't much of a threat: "Either choose Me, or you won't have chosen Me". For God to rape would involve forcing you to choose Him - which He does not do. It is not His fault that so many chose poorly.