(January 23, 2015 at 4:07 pm)Xeno Wrote: You can tell it's your last resort when you have to threaten people with an eternity of suffering in order to get them to listen to you. Imagine if parents did that.
Not hard to imagine. Perhaps you've heard of the boogie-man (not 70s disco version)? And if you read Grimm's tales, there's lots of cooking of children and cutting off of body parts. Maybe not eternal torture, but still pretty coercive.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
