(July 7, 2015 at 5:24 am)Metis Wrote: No, this is why the damned are eternally damned.
The idea is that God created this world between eternity, this universe/multiverse/plane of existence (pick your favored term) is a temporary blip where time exists and humans are capable of making independent choices. Prior to the act of creation there was no passage of time, and after the end of the world all will return to a period of eternal unchangingness.
Once time ends for you at the apocalypse or death and you lose your free will/the body to do it with wherever you were at the time your stuck as forever. So if you were in Gods good books, you stay there, if you were out of them, you burn.
The one and only exception within Christian answers for this is the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, a temporary position for sinners who weren't good enough for heaven but not bad enough for hell, so they burn for a bit in purgatory but at some undefined time will be allowed to move on into heaven.
Then eternity/heaven is a place where everything is frozen. If I but blink my eyes or think any thought at all, that is movement and movement is change, so I've broken eternity and started time.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.