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Jesus suffering vs eternal suffering of temporary sinners
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RE: Jesus suffering vs eternal suffering of temporary sinners
(November 19, 2018 at 11:56 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Less immoral than a lava cesspit slide?  Do you really have to ask?  Wink

This notion that..since it allegedly created one super swell choice it just had to create one equally as shitty is more than a little bit absurd.  It could have been the choice between heaven and, you know, a sort of humdrum place doing admin work for the heavenly orgy.  Some jobs at the theme park are better than others.  Could have a heathen contingent of janitors, for example.

No I didn't really have to ask, but I did. Your example is flawed in that the janitors and secretaries are still in the theme park. Let me try a better analogy.
A space ship with eternal gravity is surrounded by eternal antigravity. You can be inside or outside, no in-between because the door is eternally locked after point X in time.

Whether hell is figurative or literal is moot. Whether suffering is temporary or eternal is moot. Whether it's a furnace or a parking lot is moot. After said X time you will have to live with the consequences of your choice is the point.
The point on the morality of an equally shitty choice isn't absurd. After all things that aren't eternal are gone, You have A or B. If A is perfect and everything good, B should be the opposite. I don't see that as being absurd. I'm not even getting into motives with "not wishing that any should perish". I'm still not convinced the creation of Hell is immoral, but I'm open.
"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

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RE: Jesus suffering vs eternal suffering of temporary sinners - by tackattack - November 19, 2018 at 1:52 pm

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