RE: My reasoning in rejecting eternal torture/hell...
March 26, 2013 at 10:01 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2013 at 10:02 pm by radorth.)
(March 26, 2013 at 8:08 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It's good to put in yourself in position of another, and ask what you think is the right thing to do with regards to yourself, and apply it to others.
If you were evil, would it be the right thing to have compassion yourself and hope you are forgiven and reformed or eternally tortured?
I believe it's the former.
Therefore I believe it's right to wish others compassion and they not be eternally tortured but forgiven and reformed.
Therefore I believe if there is a Creator that shares morality of humanity, it would be wrong of him to eternally torture humans for being evil.
I agree actually, and I am troubled by at least one of Jesus' statements. But I think the "If the Christian God is God, he's a bad God" argument is too simplistic.
A few points/ questions:
Jesus only condemned religious people to hell, at least publically, a warning to religious people everywhere including some "Christians."
Would Jesus be more or less forgiving than he sounds? We don't know. According to most atheists, Jesus forgives and saves an awful lot of bad people.
Further he plainly says that we are only judged as we judge. That in itself should jerk the slack out of any thinking person, if the threat of hell doesn't work. We are all basically self-righteous boneheads, spiritually speaking, and if we don't know that we deserve the bulk of what we get.
Finally, (according to the Christian God), we rejected his offer of paradise, ignored his commandments, killed his prophets and finally knocked off his son. And now we have some right to complain about the punishment?
That's fair and logical?
