On Hell and Forgiveness

[Neo-Scholastic]

Well, I wasn't trying to be exhaustive. What you say is indeed true. Consistency does not necessarily prefer a specific conclusion. In situations where multiple conclusions could be drawn from what is evident, it is not unreasonable to consider one true...particularly if the same conclusion follows from multiple observations. In situations where it could go either way, the stance that either the negative or positive is somehow always the default seems susceptible to the belief holders personal inclinations.

The larger point I am making to Kit is that reasonable people can disagree. We don't have go around think other people are mentally or morally deficient just because they have reached different conclusions.

I agree. But to believe in things that are not in evidence and for reasons that are countered by actual facts is a delusion as well as being wrong.

And I do not believe either of those conditions have been meet with respect to mainstream Christian beliefs, or at least those that I understand to be such.