Sorry I can't respond to every quote directly as it would be a much bigger wall of text than I care to type.
unfogged,
Matthew 25 v. 46, is the only verse that supports your presupposition regarding endless suffering. I believe one is enough and agree that there is everlasting suffering in Hellfire for those that sin against God.
gwaithmir,
Sin is nothing more than a priestly construct invented for the purpose of controlling people through fear and guilt if you don't believe in an objective moral authority, which a lot of people on here don't believe in objective morality.
everyone else who posted about hell being immoral,
By the act of creating beings with volition, it necessitates choice. If you had nothing to choose then it wouldn't really be a choice. Heaven being eternal, an equivocal choice would be an eternal lake of fire. If you believe in souls, either souls are eternal or not. If they are, then there's only 2 places to go after the universe passes away.
Bringing this back to the point, I suppose God could have created a slide with a pool and a parking lot. Would that have been less immoral?
unfogged,
Matthew 25 v. 46, is the only verse that supports your presupposition regarding endless suffering. I believe one is enough and agree that there is everlasting suffering in Hellfire for those that sin against God.
gwaithmir,
Sin is nothing more than a priestly construct invented for the purpose of controlling people through fear and guilt if you don't believe in an objective moral authority, which a lot of people on here don't believe in objective morality.
everyone else who posted about hell being immoral,
By the act of creating beings with volition, it necessitates choice. If you had nothing to choose then it wouldn't really be a choice. Heaven being eternal, an equivocal choice would be an eternal lake of fire. If you believe in souls, either souls are eternal or not. If they are, then there's only 2 places to go after the universe passes away.
Bringing this back to the point, I suppose God could have created a slide with a pool and a parking lot. Would that have been less immoral?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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