Originally posted by LemonJello
Thank you for that sincere reply. But I think we need to maintain some perspective here. The concept of 'hell' that you posit is not like a 'put on your dunce cap and sit in the corner for the rest of class' type experience. The hell that you describe is a case in which God is going above and beyond the call to make conscious minds suffer needlessly. ...[text shortened]... yet you think it is perfectly admissible for God to torture fully developed minds at length.
The concept of 'hell' that you posit is not like a 'put on your dunce cap and sit in the corner for the rest of class' type experience. The hell that you describe is a case in which God is going above and beyond the call to make conscious minds suffer needlessly.
I do not believe that God causes people to suffer needlessly. You are assuming that God is the one that does the torturing.
You may want to give some serious thought as to why you take delight in worshipping a monster.
You are judging my stance from your perspective. I do not see God as a monster. I also used to have a distorted view of God, until I experienced His love. His love surpases all understanding.
I cannot see how you can call a God (who was willing to lay down His life for you) a monster.
I believe that he who rejects this great love of God, will not be tortured by God, but by his own mind and by Satan and his demons; because of having spurned the love that God has showed him.
Your stance is so disheveled.
You assume too much about my stance.
You cry bloody murder when a female exercises her right to kill an organism that lacks even the capacity to suffer,
What??? Have you ever been aborted???
How do you know that a fetus does not feel pain when it is aborted???
and yet you think it is perfectly admissible for God to torture fully developed minds at length.
When did I say that God tortures anybody?
You have used the worst possible example to explain my stance. An unborn baby has no way to choose for itself; yet someone who has a fully developed mind has the ability to make his own choices and suffer the consequences of his/her chosing.
Me thinks the one that denies a child the right to make his own decisions is a Monster.
God has laid out the rules, he even gave us the brains to realise that we will burn our hands if we put them in the fire.
Now we blame God if the fire burns?