(April 13, 2010 at 10:28 am)Gilligan Wrote: What is so hard to understand that God must punish sin? God does not want anyone (including nonbelievers) to perish. Would a "bastard" (your word, not mine) provide a way to avoid so easily this fate? That is why He sent Jesus to pay for our sins on the cross.The difference of course being that my mother didn't spank my an infinite amount of times, and no criminal has been sentenced to eternity in prison. Our punishments are proportional to the crime committed, but apparently even an omnipotent God can't figure the fairness in that system.
Didn't you get spankings as a child when you did wrong? Don't we put criminals in prison?
Murder someone? Burn in hell for eternity.
Steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family? Burn in hell for eternity.
Oh, and that's another thing; some of these "sins" aren't even justifiable.