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Belief in God hinges on the reality and morality of hell.
At the end of the day, with a God who hides, the only good way to ascertain if he would be real or not is by his morality. This assumes that having a sense of morality is good and not having it is not and that a God would be good.
The pivotal question for God’s existence is;---- would a good God create a place like hell?
The definition of hell here is the one of eternal fire and torture with no chance of reprieve.
IOW. The traditional hell
To help me determine if there was a real Bible God or not, I asked and answered a few simple question for myself.
1. Is it morals and good justice for a soul to be able to sin for a finite time and then have to suffer torture for infinity?
2. Is it good morals and justice for small or mediocre sinners to have to bear the same sentence as Hitler, Stalin and other genocidal maniacs?
Punishment is usually only given to change attitude or actions and cause the sinner to repent.
3. Is it good morals and justice to continue to torture a soul in hell if no change in attitude or actions are to result?
4. Is it good morals and justice to keep a soul alive in hell instead of killing it for mercies sake?
I answered no to all of the above and determined that there is no way in hell that a hell would be a moral construct and that a good God would not create such a place. If hell exists then Bible God cannot if he is a good God.
If you answered no, as I did, then the existence of Bible God also gives a no answer.
If you answered yes to any of the above then let us examine your reasons for thinking that God would create this, to you, moral construct called hell.
Please justify your yes and show what I am to give a rebuttal to and let us try to reason together. This is mostly impossible from what I have seen and experienced but having kept this O P fairly simple, I am hopping that we can.
Regards
DL
PS. The next post is to give you a glimpse of what others think of some of these issues and to stimulate thought. There is quite a bit of it and it is there for reference only.
At the end of the day, with a God who hides, the only good way to ascertain if he would be real or not is by his morality. This assumes that having a sense of morality is good and not having it is not and that a God would be good.
The pivotal question for God’s existence is;---- would a good God create a place like hell?
The definition of hell here is the one of eternal fire and torture with no chance of reprieve.
IOW. The traditional hell
To help me determine if there was a real Bible God or not, I asked and answered a few simple question for myself.
1. Is it morals and good justice for a soul to be able to sin for a finite time and then have to suffer torture for infinity?
2. Is it good morals and justice for small or mediocre sinners to have to bear the same sentence as Hitler, Stalin and other genocidal maniacs?
Punishment is usually only given to change attitude or actions and cause the sinner to repent.
3. Is it good morals and justice to continue to torture a soul in hell if no change in attitude or actions are to result?
4. Is it good morals and justice to keep a soul alive in hell instead of killing it for mercies sake?
I answered no to all of the above and determined that there is no way in hell that a hell would be a moral construct and that a good God would not create such a place. If hell exists then Bible God cannot if he is a good God.
If you answered no, as I did, then the existence of Bible God also gives a no answer.
If you answered yes to any of the above then let us examine your reasons for thinking that God would create this, to you, moral construct called hell.
Please justify your yes and show what I am to give a rebuttal to and let us try to reason together. This is mostly impossible from what I have seen and experienced but having kept this O P fairly simple, I am hopping that we can.
Regards
DL
PS. The next post is to give you a glimpse of what others think of some of these issues and to stimulate thought. There is quite a bit of it and it is there for reference only.
