(February 6, 2013 at 7:34 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Because you are not perfect, you attract 'punishment', God or no God.
Uh...no. Unless of course punishment is very vaguely defined. We can't go to hell if there is not god to send us there. We attract punishment for being the way god made us? And him offering the chance to grovel at his feet for survial is mercy? More like a very very bad case of Stockholm's syndrome.
(February 6, 2013 at 7:34 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Fear of hell is the opposite of God. If you're feeling guilty, you need to deal with that. Like we know, God forgives, so guilt is wiped out.
I bet Hitler didn't feel guilty.
I have a better idea; rather than letting people get away with murder (literally), he should just stop punishing people for the arbitrary stuff, and the stuff that is unavoidable due to design flaws he deliberately put in us.
