(January 30, 2018 at 3:01 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(January 30, 2018 at 2:46 pm)SteveII Wrote: I would say that God is the perfection of each of his attributes. Arguments can be made that holiness is better than wicked. Justice is better than injustice. Concepts of perfectly holy and perfectly just separately and together carry entailments such as can't abide the presence of sin nor the can allow it to go unaddressed.
Do you think that hell - a state of place/being that is torturous for those in it - is an ethical solution?
Implicit in your question is that there is another possible solution. Given our free will, our resulting condition of being unholy, God's necessarily perfect holiness/justice, there is not another solution except not to make any people with free will. It is easy to argue that it is, on average, a greater good for billions of people having lived a life than none at all--even if a only a portion respond to God.
Quote:Quote:Please remember that the main doctrines of Christianity have been discussed and written about by learned people for 2 millennium. Billions of hours of thought have gone into these concepts. Christianity's main problem today is the inability of the typical believer to defend doctrine against a more organized and sophisticated objector. However, that does not mean the there are not very good answers to the objections.
Argument from popularity again. Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Nope. Not at all. My point was a general point to address people who think they understand Christianity and think they know the weaknesses of the belief system when it is painfully obvious they know next to nothing about which they rail against. Only the young and/or stupid (on both sides) think they know everything and are above seeing things from other perspectives.
