(December 1, 2014 at 11:50 pm)JesusChristLover Wrote: It will take me time to read and digest this 49 page thread, so here is my contribution to this discussion just by reading the OP.
Every sinner in hell has a full realization that he deserves to be there. Each sinner has a fully informed, acutely aware, and sensitive conscience which, in hell, becomes his own tormenter. This is the experience of torture in hell—a person fully aware of his or her sin with a relentlessly accusing conscience, without relief for even one moment. The guilt of sin will produce shame and everlasting self-hatred.
We, at this very moment know that eternal punishment for a lifetime of sins is justified and deserved. We have two simple options, repent or go-to-hell.
How is eternal punishment possibly justified for a lifetime - which is, by definition, finite - of sins?
How is this eternal punishment justified at all when it's a shitty deterrent (we don't all know that hell is waiting for us) and when it's impossible to be used as a way to correct behavior (we're already dead, and like the name says, it's eternal punishment)?
How are the sinners suffering this eternal torture fully cognizant of their failures? Would a worshipper of Vishnu, who, apparently picked the wrong god, be one of these people? What about the myriad aboriginal peoples living on this planet?
Why would an all-loving god continue to create billions of people that are destined (due to geography, at the very least) to go to hell?
...methinks you haven't really thought about it.
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
