Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: scott@clmqt.marquette.mi.us (Scott Reynolds) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: man mere play things? Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 07:23:29 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article lindborg@mirror.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Lindborg) writes: >>>I should think that I wont mind being separated from the so-called >>>"love" that involves the eternal torment and pain of the majority of the >>>human population for the sins committed within the period of a lifetime. Whoa, wait just a minute here. "Eternal torment and pain" is not something that you can support, except by listening to a specific denomination's or individual's doctrine. Note the not-so-subtle difference between the phrases "eternal punishment" and "eternal punishing." It is unfortunate that so many people miss this, even people who should really know better. >You have failed to answer God's motivation in creating a race of beings >and then expecting them to behave and THINK in a way that satisfies Him. >If they don't he punishes them for eternity. This was the crux of my >argument and you ignored it completely... First let me state that eternal punishment need only happen once, not continuing on forever. A quite reasonable answer to your argument is simply this: it is far more rewarding to be loved by somebody by their choice rather than by forcing them to do so by your own choice. -- scott@clmqt.marquette.MI.US | Scott Reynolds - + - Enterprise Information System | Revive us, oh Lord! |