(July 15, 2015 at 8:16 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:(July 15, 2015 at 12:09 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Don't get used to hearing from me, but your theology is flawed. The answer is simple.
The answer to "why" is because God is also perfectly just. And perfect justice demands a redress.
Consequently, at the cross, perfect justice and perfect plant offeringsmercy met.
But again, why? God made everything, including the rules, right? That means he's the one who decided that "perfect justice" means spilling blood. He could have just as easily created a system where good works, plant offerings, or any number of things could have atoned for sin.
Why would a perfectly loving, benevolent, forgiving being define "perfect justice" as death and torture for eternity for even the smallest infraction? If he chose that system, then he is not perfectly loving and benevolent. If he is beholden to that system, then he is not all-powerful.
I believe the idea of eternal fire torture is actaully not the only view of hell. Some say that hell is where the wicked go to learn the error of their ways until they understand what they did wrong. Others say that you go to hell to be consumed by the fire and you soul forever gone. The current view however is the strongest because it appeals to the greatest amount of fear from the common person and so is the best instument to use in converting. Also I read somewhere that for the longest time hell was merely a conceptual state of mind until someone thought of the idea of using it as a real place to scare people. It works well for a third of the population apparently. So let's go die in glorious battle and go to Valhala instead or is it Sto-vo-kor
.
