(April 17, 2012 at 7:18 pm)genkaus Wrote:(April 17, 2012 at 6:39 pm)C Rod Wrote: The unfixable.
What's bad about a get out of jail free card?
What's wrong with believing the last second and acknowledging God while on earth? I think its worth something and certainly if its true. Is too much mercy a bad thing?
The same thing that's wrong with the judge giving his son a get-out-of-jail-free card. Its the same moral principle. Justice requires you to pay for your crimes in accordance with those crimes. Your god subverts the concept of justice by either granting undeserved mercy or by dishing out punishment without regard for the crime. Therefore, he is an unjust and an immoral entity.
Exactly, granting undeserved mercy, this is grace and salvation comes through that grace. The crimes are eternal sins, they are not forgiven because people do not ask for forgiveness through Jesus. Thus the sin remains eternal, and eternal sin deserves eternal punishment. When God forgives sin through Jesus, the sin is eternally cast away, and eternally forgotten.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.