RE: "Why is it reasonable to believe in prisons, but not in the hell?"
January 10, 2021 at 8:35 pm
(January 3, 2021 at 3:13 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: However, I think a valid counter-argument to that is "But there have been some near-death-experiencer claiming to have been to hell.".This count argument is invalid. A near death experiencer is an alive person, what he sees/witnesses when some brain function is altered or about to shut down comes from his memories, therefore these experiences have no truth value. After all, one is either dead or not dead.
(January 3, 2021 at 3:13 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Another response I can think of to the question from the title is "How could hell ever be a just punishment? Hell is an infinite punishment, and all the crimes we can do on this world are finite.".
the length of punishment is independent of the length of a crime. If someone is given a life sentence for fatally shooting someone, it's clear that there is no quantitative relationship between how long the gunshot took (less than a second?) and the length of a life sentence.
(January 3, 2021 at 3:13 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Another response I can think of to the question from the title is claiming that hell contradicts science, since one needs nervous system to feel pain, but that is all destroyed once one dies.
An all powerful deity can certainly find alternatives to make the ressurected person feel pain again, even in the absence of a nervous system.
