(November 27, 2014 at 6:37 pm)Mequa Wrote: For an all-powerful God to eternally punish a human is not so much vengeance as just pure malevolent sadism. Like a child with an ant farm who enjoys roasting the ants in a fire, just for being ants.
An all-powerful God who would oversee eternal torture in Hell for finite offences, as "sin" somehow conflicts with his "holiness", is really a sadistically sick puppy and quite a psychopathic tyrant deity, when you really think about it.
Why oh why do so many religions worship and glorify a God like that, who sounds like a much worse asshole than the likes of Hitler?
If God is such a (as you put it,) sadistic being, why would He wait for people to die to torture them, what fun would it be to torture the dead when He could torture people while they are living.
Sin is not finite, unforgiven it last forever, thus the justified eternal hell.
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.