RE: And Hells come back to haunt me
November 7, 2013 at 6:12 am
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2013 at 6:12 am by Tonus.)
(November 6, 2013 at 8:56 pm)Godschild Wrote: The cutoff as you put it, salvation. No that is determined by what one does here. Very simple to understand, God did not make this hard.
That isn't what I was referring to. How much "good" is sufficient to get one into heaven? If we are to speak of the fairness of eternal reward and punishment, then we would need to understand that everyone gets one or the other, no? The person who barely does enough to escape hell gets the same eternal reward as the most virtuous person who ever lived. The person who falls just short of heaven gets the same eternal punishment as the most vile and despicable person who ever lived. Does either scenario strike you as fair?
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