DISCLAIMER This is such a long thread that I didn't read through most of it. So forgive me if what I'm about to say has been said.
Does the Bible say that eternity in hell is supposed to be seen as punishment? I don't think it's meant to be a disciplinary act so much as it's just fear compliance. Like be-headings, back in the day. It wasn't meant to punish to discipline the person being executed so much as it was a show of, "See why you don't want to disobey us now?".
That being said, you can't have an all loving God that endorses it anyway. You can't have an all powerful anything either. Ah, self defeating premises.
Does the Bible say that eternity in hell is supposed to be seen as punishment? I don't think it's meant to be a disciplinary act so much as it's just fear compliance. Like be-headings, back in the day. It wasn't meant to punish to discipline the person being executed so much as it was a show of, "See why you don't want to disobey us now?".
That being said, you can't have an all loving God that endorses it anyway. You can't have an all powerful anything either. Ah, self defeating premises.
