Why torturing people for eternity is wrong

Originally posted by @chaney3
Yes, that's what I'm saying.

But in a realistic way:

We will ALL be judged by our actions, and will have a price to pay, but it won't include hell. I am NOT saying that God approves of any sin, but He will punish us accordingly, in a loving way, because HE created us.

Maybe the opposite of Dante's inferno?? Different levels of Heaven based on the ...[text shortened]... ch' that God has a 'perfect justice' waiting, which doesn't include a lake of fire for eternity.

Based upon what?

Originally posted by @kellyjay
Based upon what?

Based on the same imagination and conjecture that led some writers to concoct the Jesus cult of personality and set up a breakaway religion in the decades and centuries after he was executed by the Romans.

Originally posted by @fmf
Based on the same imagination and conjecture that led some writers to concoct the Jesus cult of personality and set up a breakaway religion in the decades and centuries after he was executed by the Romans.

You have gone a long way since Jesus was a part of your life.

Originally posted by @kellyjay
You have gone a long way since Jesus was a part of your life.

Well, I am not a Christian if that's what you mean.

In personal terms, the "long way" I have gone has been a form of progress. If your views on who Jesus was help you to cope with life and death, good for you.

Originally posted by @fmf
Well, I am not a Christian if that's what you mean.

In personal terms, the "long way" I have gone has been a form of progress. If your views on who Jesus was help you to cope with life and death, good for you.

Not sure what just views could do for anyone during good and bad times.

-Removed-

Its clear that you'll break your arm patting yourself on the back, imagining that you pose questions that need running away from.

Ask me now your toughest question. And if I have to untwist the concealed innuendos in it first before I reply, I will.

Not your second or third or fourth toughest now. Ask your TOUGHEST question. Let me see if I have a heart attack.

And that doesn't mean a perpetual infinite string of dumb innuendo-ed questions from you as if I had nothing else to do.

Originally posted by @kellyjay
Not sure what just views could do for anyone during good and bad times.

It's a question of psychology. You have stated several times that your religious beliefs have helped you through bad times.

Originally posted by @fmf
It's a question of psychology. You have stated several times that your religious beliefs have helped you through bad times.

Did you ever answer my question to you about sharing the gospel as you used to believe in it?

Originally posted by @kellyjay
Did you ever answer my question to you about sharing the gospel as you used to believe in it?

No. I am interested in discussing your current beliefs and my current beliefs.