(June 27, 2013 at 6:46 pm)Consilius Wrote: Ooh, how nice. Let's change the analogy to a detention in a school.
Two students who commit the same infraction should be assigned the same punishment as a result.
Quote:The phrase "two wrongs make a right" represents a dogma of Christianity: God's love and mercy.
It is not a Christian invention and Christians don't own the patent on it. It is a concept that Christianity happened to adopt.
Quote:In OT times, not only did this law not exist due to Adam's sin, but the people of the time implemented a law of retribution and only saw justice in it.
Adam was not a real person. Elite rulers generally implemented laws and enforced them with military might. It was not a situation where the people of nations got together and agreed upon the rules they would follow.
Quote:If you are being beaten up by a strangers, you have two options: a) two wrongs don't make a right b) they will deserve what they get.
Vengeance fixes nothing. Even God eventually realized it.
Quote:'Eternal punishment' (Hell) is as poor a term as its definition: "Where the bad people go." Hell is rather a state of separation from God that is freely chosen by souls that do not want to be with him. Hell is not "fire and brimstone", rather, that is a description of what it is like to live without God in a person. The 'damned' live forever in the absence of a God they did not want to live with.
Christians need to really unify their opinion on what hell is. It makes talking about hell very difficult.
