(June 16, 2015 at 12:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 16, 2015 at 11:51 am)Neimenovic Wrote: I guess my reply was buried under dozens of others, but I'd like to ask Lady, how can you view Jesus as a moral person-let alone a moral TEACHER-with the context of thought crime and eternal torment in mind?
Can you rephrase the question? I don't quite follow what you mean...
Sure
The god of the OT is a monster, but the concept of hell does not appear until the NT and the preachings of Jesus; it's him that introduces the idea of tormenting the sinner for eternity without the possibility of appeal after the sinner in question is dead
Jesus also endorses the idea of thought crime, equating intention with action. This idea is totalitarian in essence: a law that is impossible to follow yet must be obeyed-on pain of postmortem torment
Having this in mind, how can you view the teachings of Jesus as moral?
