RE: Will Humans Have Freewill in Heaven?
July 8, 2015 at 3:52 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2015 at 3:54 pm by The Inquisition.)
(July 7, 2015 at 1:29 pm)tonechaser77 Wrote: I could have easily shown him love by just LOVING him. I don't need to exercise a warrant of suffering just to show my love. And I can sure think of a better system that I could put in place to where mercy would not need to be shown. Showing the nature of mercy does not justify suffering in the slightest of means. And if it does, I would want nothing to do with that epistemology.
So the dilemma still stands and cannot cohesively be negated regardless of the mental gymnastics and hoops theists try to jump through.
This is Christianity's greatest failure, there's no reason for hell. The myth writers could have simply said consciousness terminated at death, but the hell thing had to be put in there, the writers of the myth had to attempt to control people in a completely non-falsifiable way so they issued the greatest imaginable threat without any tangible proof -hell. Instead of choosing an ascendant path to appeal to people positively, they chose the low road.
It worked, the myth writers certainly understood how to control people. They created one of the most sadistic imaginings possible while lowering Christianity to a simple Pavlov's dog experiment writ large across humanity.
Using the supernatural to explain events in your life is a failure of the intellect to comprehend the world around you. -The Inquisition