(August 12, 2013 at 3:16 pm)LostLocke Wrote:(August 12, 2013 at 2:44 pm)Godschild Wrote: Only the foolishness of ignorance could produce a statement like that. A compassionate judge given a verdict of guilty from a jury may not want to sentence a person to life in prison, but the law of justice requires him to do so. Does this concept also go over your head.1: The judge, in practice, is bound by the laws of the state, laws that are above his position.
Why do you believe that God is not bound by the truth of His law, not the laws He gave man to live by, but actually who He is.
Quote:2: The judge did not create the judicial system or the prison in which the guilty will be held.
Judges are always reworking the judicial system in many ways.
Quote:God created both the system by which to judge people, and the place of eternal torture in which to keep them.
God did not create the system one is judged by, one is judged by the righteousness of God, God was not created and neither was His justice. Yes He created hell, for those who are guilty, and in that hell all the guilty will be sealed away forever, that's the price of eternally unforgiven sin according to the scripture which is the word of God.
Quote:When I was a JW, we believed the Christian concept of hell was against a loving god, and that the punish for sin was what he said at the beginning to Adam and Eve.... death, eternal non-existence, nothing more nothing less.
That's not what God said to Adam and Eve, but maybe it was in the book you were reading, seeing how the JWs rewrote the Bible to suit them.
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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.