Obviously the only rational explanation is that an all knowing and all powerful being, who is invisible and who requires that people worship it at the penalty of
eternal punishment just puffed everything into existence.
Not exact matches
I
just don't (personally) see any redemptive value in the teachings of
eternal punishment.
Would not restoring the life of the murdered be more
just than
eternal punishment of the murderer?
Also, what makes you so sure that when given
eternal punishment automatically means
eternal in duration and not
eternal as meaning that it is
just simply in reference to God's
punishment because one of the names for God is
eternal like Alpha and Omega.
I don't believe there is any sort of sacred
eternal punishment awaiting Phelps, he will die,
just like me and everyone else.
Since God's dignity and holiness are
eternal, a
just punishment against such a one must also be
eternal.
@ karl: is your god so petty and paranoid that he would visit
eternal punishment on one of his creations — that he is supposed to love —
just because that creation decided to use its brain to question the existence of this god?
We are
just tiny beings in Gods universe and he doesn't owe you anything but he loves you anyways so why send yourself to
eternal punishment when it's so easy to believe!
To me, a perfect judgement and sentence of the evil person would require more than
just a
punishment in
eternal flame, since he would still be capable of cursing God, fostering hatred and perversion and all sorts of other humanly sinful ways while he was being eternally tormented.
If I'm an unbeliever till my dying day and am punished (however you believe that
punishment to be, whether its
eternal hel.lfire or
just barred access into heaven) I can't exactly go back and redo my life believing in god because I know the consequence.
Not saying i don't believe in future
punishment, i» am
just not sure if i believe in
eternal damnation anymore, i» am open to other possibilities (including possible salvation after death).
Because God is a
just God he had to place commandments which had a
punishment affixed, which is
eternal separation from God.
Jude 7: «
just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after [a] strange flesh, are exhibited as an [b] example in undergoing the
punishment of
ETERNAL fire.»
I
just don't read the word «fire» in Jude as a reference to
eternal punishment in a firey location...
Finally, «
eternal»
punishment would never occur to a
just and wise god.
Consider Matthew 25 where Jesus says the Son of Man will separate the evil from the
just and the evil ``... will go away into
eternal punishment...»
What is
just about
eternal punishment for a finite offense?
No matter what, there are verses on
eternal punishment that stump all these types of teachers —
just as there is no «real» solid proof of evolution.
P4
just released 3 years ago and this year we got Persona 2:
Eternal Punishment (PSP), P4: Golden (Vita), and P4: Arena (PS3 / 360).