Sentences with phrase «of eternal punishment»

If the only reason a person is good is because of the threat of some eternal punishment, he / she isn't really good at all.

Not the fear of eternal punishment, not the hopes of reaching paradise in afterlife, but the realization that life is precious and should be respected.

That we are all deserving of this eternal punishment?

It arose as a response to an abusive Roman Catholic theology that placed the burden of eternal punishment squarely upon the shoulders of sinners.

True faith is not based upon the receipt of an eternal reward or the avoidance of an eternal punishment.

Do you believe in the possibility of eternal punishment after death?

The freedom to be a good, moral, ethical and loving human without the threat of eternal punishment will bring true and honest happiness.

Choosing to be a moral, ethical and loving being without the fear of eternal punishment.

YeaOK... Breaking free from the chains of religion to be a moral, ethical, loving human being by choice without the threat of eternal punishment in hell IS the only true freedom!!

But the religious idea of eternal punishment?

However, the problem remains that a lot of theology (not just Christian, but Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and some Buddhism too) teaches that Hell is something created by God as a form of eternal punishment for those who reject Jesus, the Islamic faith, good works, or whatever.

Instead of an eternal punishment of bitter harshness, the judgment will be the repair and repatriation of the lost child.

Instead of an eternal punishment of bitter harshness and separation, the judgment will be the repair and repatriation of every lost child.

Polycarp: «You threaten me with a fire that burns for an hour and is speedily quenched; so you know nothing of the fire of the judgement to come and of the eternal punishment which is reserved for the wicked.

Threats of eternal punishment betray a weak argument.

I just don't (personally) see any redemptive value in the teachings of eternal punishment.

It wasn't until the sixth century that UR was thrown out and considered heretical doctrine by the emperor Jerome, after guys like St. Augustine — one of the first champions of eternal punishment — started challenging the notion, largely because he (and others) believed that the unjust needed to be punished.

The promise of a life of eternal bliss in heaven above, and the threat of the torment of eternal punishment in the hell below, proclaimed as the two alternatives which faced man as his eternal destiny, frequently had the unfortunate effect of leading men in the direction of self - centeredness.

These features differentiate fundamentalists from other evangelical and conservative thinkers who accent the «five smooth stones» by which the Goliath of secular humanism is to be slain: substitutionary atonement, Christ's imminent return, the reality of eternal punishment, the necessity of personal assurance of salvation and the truth of the miracles.

Critics of religion often claim that its adherents grovellingly obey moral laws, not for the sake of leading a good life or behaving altruistically, but for fear of eternal punishment at the hands of a vindictive God.

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.

They are usually literalists when it concerns the second coming of Christ, the resurrection of Jesus as an historical event, the existence of eternal punishment in hell.

Since when is disbelief worthy of eternal punishment?

Warnings of eternal punishment soon follow as they throw their boogeyman understanding of god around.

With the knowledge of eternal punishment, mankind is this bad and cruel, I have no idea what a hellish place this planet will be like with the god atheists wish him to be.

If your living without Jesus Christ and think live on earth is a living hell this is only a taste of your eternal punishment.

Did he tell her to pray to him for forgiveness and then he will let her off the hook of eternal punishment... No Instead in his tenderness and compassion he said, be whole, be true to yourself, be at - one with yourself, be strong, respect yourself don't let these men take advantage of you again...

The Christian view of eternal punishment or eternal bliss, seems to contradict a sliding scale of reward or punishment.

The depiction of hell as a place of eternal punishment and torture of sinners has been an unnecessary roadblock to faith for many for it suggests a God who unfairly punishes sins of 70 years on earth as warranting eternal damnation.

What I'm saying is that the idea of eternal punishment is not a Jewish one, but a Greek one that crept into the faith through the use of the word Hades.

religion is so formidable in our society because of the unending indoctrination, the constant threat of expulsion from the community, and the use of fear in the form of eternal punishment.

Even the notion of eternal punishment is immoral.

In summary, total depravity means that our rebellion against God is total, everything we do in this rebellion is sinful, our inability to submit to God or reform ourselves is total, and we are therefore totally deserving of eternal punishment (Piper, Five Points, 22).

Perhaps this is one of the factors that is instilled in the minds of the people about the concept of the eternal punishment.

Threats of eternal punishment betray a weak arguement.

«The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds.

Christianity has lost — more, I think, for better than for worse — its primal negative sanction: it can not, outside of Fundamentalist circles, scare people into faith by threats of eternal punishment.

Seems to me, if God wanted us to live in fear of an eternal punishment, God would have spoken out earlier, and not waited'til Jesus came.

And how is this different from «thou shalt not...», explicit or implicit, and the threat of eternal punishment for being born human?

2) If you don't understand how God can be loving and still have a place of eternal punishment, I'd say you're not understanding biblical love.

If the morality is motivated merely by a fear of eternal punishment, which many religions are, then you are not truly moral - you are simply under duress.