(May 7, 2011 at 2:48 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(May 6, 2011 at 9:21 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: And yet, here's the problem: Why would God allow a place of eternal torment to exist?Because he is just. If he wasn't just, then there would be no need for consequences.
And there couldn't be a place of finite torment, like purgatory? After all, sin, no matter how great the sinner is, can never get infinite. And, since one aspect of justice is letting the punishment fit the crime, I can hardly see how infinite punishment can be done for finite sin. And for that matter, if memory serves, if, as many Christians say, you can avoid going to Hell by converting to Christianity, that would mean that if somebody like Jeffrey Dahmer ended up converting, he'd escape justice for cannibalising 17 boys, and that, meanwhile, somebody like John Lennon, who spent his life doing little more than playing music and telling people to imagine a world where people lived in peace, deserves to suffer more than Jeffrey Dahmer, as he died without converting. WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.