Originally posted by @divegeester
What circumstances are in play now, today, that makes burning people alive in hell for eternity, morally acceptable to you?
What circumstances were in play in the OT that made the execution by stoning of an adulteress, morally acceptable then, but not now?
(1) The Final Judgment has not yet occurred. The judgment of being an eternity in hell is thus not yet occurring, as far as I know, but I could be wrong. I also do not know what the exact nature of hell is -- I do know that fire is invoked to talk about it, certainly.
People send themselves to hell because they refuse to repent and acknowledge God as God. It is the ultimate act of disobedience and acting in bad faith.
People send themselves to hell.
Who goes to hell? I am not sure. Btu I do know that no one would be sent there without a good reason.
It's entirely morally acceptable.
Do you think someone should
not be punished?
(2) In Bronze & Iron Age societies, marriages were contracts between families, and the very economic livelihood of whole parts of the community were dependent on the fulfillment of the marriage and a happy marital life. There were few options when things went wrong, especially for the impoverished, and a broken home would probably scatter entirely to the wind or create situations of insane hunger for vengeance that absolutely had to be addressed.
This isn't the case in the Hellenized Mediterranean world. Society changed fundamentally. Individuals could move about, and the economy had become far less pastoral. Urbanization integration into imperial orders in a dynamic sense of the word was now happening throughout humanity.
The last piece of human social organization that would be relevant to us had been set into place.