Eternal punishment is pointless.

[Chad32]

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We know exactly why it bothers us. It's blackmail. Coercion. We're made to think we have a choice in the matter, but when the choices are worship me for eternity or be tortured for eternity, that's the definition of blackmail. Which is highly unethical. If you really think that's how it is, then your god is evil.

Justice requires that if someone accepts Christ as their savior and receives eternal reward, then justice requires an eternal punishment for eternally unforgiven sin against a Holy and Righteous God. This means there are no other choices to be given, there is a limit to what can be offered when the requirements are so specific. Seeing now how this is not blackmail, if hell still bothers you I would think you would want to find out truly why.

You might say that Yahweh can't be evil, because god is inherently good. Then I say Yahweh is not a god. He does things that are obviously evil, so instead of trying to justify his actions because a god is good by definition, then the idea that Yahweh is a god is brought into question.

What makes you think you can judge an omniscient God, scripture says the clay pot has no right to say to the potter why did you make me into this shape. The creator has the right to His plan without question, so your judgment that God is evil holds no water.

GC

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No one can do something in a limited time to deserve eternal punishment or reward. If someone thinks eternally punishing people must happen in exchange for eternally rewarding others, then take away the eternal reward. You cannot justify eternal punishment. There are a plethora of other options to be given. A simple one is punishment and reward according to what you do. The better you are, the more reward you get. The worse you are, the more punishment you get. Either way it eventually ends, because your life would be finite. What's left is just continued existence in a neutral area, or you could send them back to earth for another life.

It is blackmail. It is evil. You seem to think there's some other reason because you're too busy trying to justify Yahweh's actions to give a legitimate reason why they're just. It's eternal because he never forgives people who die without worshiping him? Holding an eternal grudge does not paint anyone in a good light.

I wonder why you think it "truly" bothers me, after I've clearly given reasons. Apparently you don't know what the words grudge or blackmail means, because you denied that he hold grudges and blackmails people. Why do you think hell bothers me?

What makes you think you can judge Yahweh? You claim he's good, right? We're both using the same source to claim he's good or evil. You say he's good because he claims he's good. I say he's evil because his actions are evil. we're both making judgement calls. If I made a clay sculpture, and gae it free will, it has the right to ask whatever it wants. If I didn't want it asking questions and acting independently, I shouldn't have given it free will.