(March 15, 2014 at 5:29 pm)Chad32 Wrote: What we "deserve" is an eternity separated from Yahweh, according to the bible. Having a horrible week, then rising again to rule over everything is not a sacrifice. That's the equivalent of my cutting off my hand, then sewing it back together, and becoming king of the world for doing so. I've lost nothing substantial, besides having it cut off while I'm fully conscious and not using pain killers. No innocent person should ever stand in for the guilty, and no guilty person should ever be punished beyond their crime. infinite punishment for finite crime is as disproportionate as it gets. Not that christians agree on what hell is, any more than anything else in the book.
Surely you are not equating cutting off a hand and having it sewed back on to death and resurrection. That's like saying an ant is equal to humans.
GC
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.
