The four questions

 

מלמד שכפה הקב"ה עליהם את ההר כגיגית  ואמר להם אם אתם מקבלים התורה,   מוטב, ואם לאו שם תהא קבורתכם           The four questions on שבועות 1) What kind of a religion is it when a gun is pointed at you and you are forced to accept it.?(no בחירה) 2) Why were the other nations not threatened with שם תהא קבורתכם and why was the mountain not dumped on them for refusing to accept the Torah? 3) Why the need to force them to accept the Torah when they already said נעשה ונשמע and were ready to accept it ( תוס' שבת פ"ח ע"א) 4) Why שם תהא קבורתכם "there" why not פה "here" under this mountain? Answer: Perhaps, Hashem wasn't threatening or forcing the בני ישראל to accept the Torah on הר סיני. There was no need to do so, being, a) they had already done so  (נעשה ונשמע) b) no point in forcing to accept the Torah by having a gun pointed at them. Hashem told the בני ישראל after they said נעשה ונשמע that it was a good decision they made by accepting the Torah. The only way for עם ישראל to survive & remain a nation forever is by accepting and keeping the Torah. Otherwise, had they not accepted the Torah then they too would ח"ו end up "שם" over there where the other empires & nations of the world are buried and disappeared from the face of the earth. "  אין אומתינו אומה אלא בתורותיה  Our nation is a nation only by זכות of its Torah" (רב סעדיה גאון) .אמבצי