RE: Biblical Inerrancy - mandatory to be Christian?
April 2, 2013 at 11:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2013 at 11:10 pm by Mystic.)
(April 2, 2013 at 10:50 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The God who represents the fullness of life without pandering to mans carnal appetite fo cheap grace is the best God.
The God who identifies his merciful will with the weak and hurting and the oppressed is the best God.
Well, whatever one you think is best, justice in this world and justice in the next are two different questions.
From the Buddhist perspective, which I agree, unjust people are really hurting themselves the most, by their evil and lack of insight.
Here is three arguments that I would like you to consider against divine justice and for divine mercy/forgiveness:
Argument 1:
We and God should be happy when an evil persons leaves evil and become good.
This means wea and God should have hoped an evil person leaves evil and becomes good.
This means we and God should have good/compassionate will towards an evil person.
This means we and God should not wish eternal justice/evil upon a bad person ever.
Argument 2:
It is good to put ourselves in position of another, and ask what is the right thing to do with regards to myself?
If we were evil, should we want ourselves to be eternally punished or reformed and forgiven (even after death) ?
I believe it's the latter.
Therefore I believe we should want others to be forgiven and reformed after death.
Therefore the morality given by God implies he too should want others to be forgiven and reformed after death.
Argument 3:
God's love is greater then our love.
It is good to to try to as much as possible love others as you love yourself.
If you love yourself enough to never want to be eternally tortured no matter how evil you become, you should want the same for another person (ie. should love them the same way).
As God's love is greater then our love for ourselves, he would want us not to get eternally tortured as well.
Tell me what you think. And do you have any argument for implementing divine justice?