(November 3, 2013 at 12:33 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(November 3, 2013 at 12:03 am)ToriJ Wrote: That's right, I was told by my pastor that hell and the people who are there for all eternity are actually being punished by God personally and he didn't seem to see the problem with that.
To which I'd ask him the question that I never get an answer to from Christians: Why would I ever want to worship a god that threatens me with eternal torture if I don't worship it?
In the Bible, he doesn't...
"eternal" is really just an eon and besides that, hell isn't real, it's a Greek myth.