RE: A question about hell
November 25, 2015 at 10:51 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2015 at 11:08 pm by ApeNotKillApe.)
Hitler arrives in Hell, Hell is now not only an abyss of everlasting misery and screaming anguish, now Hitler is there too! It is Hell plus Hitler, whereas before, it was Hell minus Hitler.
Hell plus Hitler sounds like a worse place to me than Hell minus Hitler, because Hitler is there, and he's Hitler. Hitler makes Hell a worse place by his presence, which means that it wasn't truly Hell until Hitler showed up, and in fact, if this place exists, it still isn't Hell because there are plenty of sinners yet to go there and make it worse.
Considering that, as I understand it, God plans to end the world at some point, and from that point forward, all the people who ever lived will either be in Heaven or Hell. This means that God is working with a finite number of people. If there are a finite amount of sinners in Hell, then there is also a theoretical infinite amount, it is always possible to add an additional sinner and increase the horribleness of Hell, in terms of the amount of sin present (sin being apparently innate in humans) as well as the amount of suffering being inflicted.
God can never make Hell the worst place imaginable, no matter how many sinners are in Hell, he can always only add one more, infinitely.
Hell plus Hitler sounds like a worse place to me than Hell minus Hitler, because Hitler is there, and he's Hitler. Hitler makes Hell a worse place by his presence, which means that it wasn't truly Hell until Hitler showed up, and in fact, if this place exists, it still isn't Hell because there are plenty of sinners yet to go there and make it worse.
Considering that, as I understand it, God plans to end the world at some point, and from that point forward, all the people who ever lived will either be in Heaven or Hell. This means that God is working with a finite number of people. If there are a finite amount of sinners in Hell, then there is also a theoretical infinite amount, it is always possible to add an additional sinner and increase the horribleness of Hell, in terms of the amount of sin present (sin being apparently innate in humans) as well as the amount of suffering being inflicted.
God can never make Hell the worst place imaginable, no matter how many sinners are in Hell, he can always only add one more, infinitely.
