(May 11, 2017 at 3:23 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(May 11, 2017 at 2:57 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: The immoral part is not that God forgives murderers. It's WHY he forgives them. He forgives them for giving themselves to Jesus and he won't forgive atheists for not giving themselves to Jesus even if they're perfectly good people.
In the first case there is contrition for one's shortcomings. In the second case, there is not.
While what you adhere to is unfortunately mainstream Protestant/Evangelical soteriology, no shortcoming should ever be worth eternal punishment of any form. This theological conception just sounds so petty it can't be from the divine.