Every one of you has decided to live by some moral code. You are not guilty of anything unless you are told that you were wrong and understand it, or you knew what you did was wrong before your crime. Either way, there has to be some kind of accepted code to live by which condemns us if we fail it. To say that hell has to be some physical place waiting for us to drop in would not be fit punishment for any crime. Our guilt begins immediately if we know we are wrong. Whether you believe in god or not does not remove the act from the conscience for the misdeed. A wrongdoing is what hell is in the first place. Our pain from the memories of these acts could last forever if there is no foregiveness for the act by the one who was hurt.
The idea of a firey, dry, dead, dark,etc. place are all expressions of the many ways that guilt can torment us. Besides, if hell was physical, it would be some kind of strange place to experience anything since no-one has a body anymore to be tormented with.
The idea that torment could last forever only suggests that, without intervention, hell could last continually. God never withdraws His hand. How could He foregive you if He is getting off watching you burn.
I know that the idea of God tossing you someplace makes no sense. You also know that it doesn't make sense. Finally we agree on something.
The idea of a firey, dry, dead, dark,etc. place are all expressions of the many ways that guilt can torment us. Besides, if hell was physical, it would be some kind of strange place to experience anything since no-one has a body anymore to be tormented with.
The idea that torment could last forever only suggests that, without intervention, hell could last continually. God never withdraws His hand. How could He foregive you if He is getting off watching you burn.
I know that the idea of God tossing you someplace makes no sense. You also know that it doesn't make sense. Finally we agree on something.
