Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark%sdcc6@ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Hell and the Faithful Message-ID: Date: 25 Dec 90 05:57:11 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 19 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article ta00est@unccvax.uncc.edu (elizabeth s tallant) writes: ...Regard a queston on the existence of hell ... + +I'll answer you question with another quesition. Would God be merciful +to the rest of us if he sent Adolp Hitler to Heaven? + I don't beleive this justifies the exsitence of some 'eternal' state of 'hell'. If the God punishes then surely the punishment cannot be eternal in the sense of a conscious entity knowing that he was being punished during that period. As for the argument for 'obeying' the God due to the punishments otherwise, this seems to be close to some 'justification' by works which will not work either. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu