RE: God is love. God is just. God is merciful.
October 4, 2014 at 9:25 am
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2014 at 9:28 am by Michael B.)
Chad, it's interesting that you assume all punishment is the same. That's certainly not the Judeo-Christian tradition. Dante, for example, has the 'nine circles of hell' in his famous 'Inferno' (with each experience of hell being particular to the sins of that person). Jewish tradition held to seven levels to hell/heaven. There's an Easten Orthodox tradition that heaven and hell are the same - in the full presence of God (to some it is heaven, but to others it is hell, and the extent of that hell is in proportion to the extent of the rebellion against God).