(February 15, 2012 at 10:45 am)Koklanas Wrote: As compared to my belief I can expect reward if I do good or punishment if i do bad
I use the tool (brain) god gave me to decide. I can still choose evil if I want to, it is entirely up to me, and I should expect punishment if I do so.
Let me ask you, if you do evil, woud you expect punishment from the authority at all.? And The big question is, what if you escape conviction forever until you die?
So here you say that you do god for reward and avoid evil so you don't get punished. That is exactly opposite of what you said earlier. If that's true then you are amoral (without morals).
If I do something against the law, of course I expect punishment by the police if I am caught. What if I escape conviction, I escape conviction - seems like a fairly simple answer. Only I don't break the law so I have no need to worry about punishment.
Talking about punishment, there are three reasons for punishment (ignoring retribution and restoration). One is to rehabilitate you so when you are introduced back into society you won't do the same again. Two is to protect society from you. Three is prevention (or deterrence). however you think Allah or for Christians Yahweh punishes you after death, which of the reasons I wrote above is the purpose of the punishment? There is no reason for any punishment after death nor is there a hell (if that is what one believes) unless one is willing to say Allah (or Yahweh) punishes people for his own amusement.