A 'good enough' revelation, free will & malignant narcissism
"If it was indeed true that there is such a thing as eternal torment it would have been made abundantly clear in the teachings of Christ and the Apostles." ~ Rajk999
If the torturer God ideology were to be 'true', there would have needed to have been a clearer revelation of this God figure that torture-is-morally-coherent people think is real.
This would have been so that other people could exercise informed free will in accepting or rejecting the teachings of their religion.
This would be have been instead of basing their whole philosophy [as it pertains to billions and billions of people] - of never-satisfied-supernatural revenge and inexplicably demented violence - on what they narcissistically insist was a good-enough revelation.
Malignant narcissism? Well, it is apparently a good-enough revelation for them, - it satisfied their curiosity and formed the basis of highly subjective opinions about "justice" - and from that self-centredness stems an attempted moral justification for incomprehensible anger and cruelty.
Why would a creator being offer a degree of 'proof' in the veracity of the 'revelation' that underpins Christianity that only 1 in 3 people in the world subscribe to it - at best?
There could have been more convincing evidence and a more credible revelation and people would still have the free will to believe something else, surely?
How would a more convincing revelation that embraced more human beings and inspired more people to live the Christian life - and gain from its communal and personal benefits - be an abrogation of "free will"?
The whole thing sounds like it was dreamed up by humans.
