Every time I ask Christians about Hell, someone pipes up saying 'he has to keep to his word, which promises unbelievers get tossed into Hell' (Rev. 21:8).
But God wrote the rules. When he was writing the rules, he could have written any rule he wanted for the sake of the unbelievers.
So why would a God of Love write a rule that unbelievers must be thrown into a place called Hell, rather than some -other- rule?
When Americans execute a murderer, they don't throw the murderer into a lake that burns with fire and brimstone. We'd consider that (at the least) cruel and unusual punishment.
And no one in the Western world executes unbelievers. Indeed, we get upset when this sort of thing occurs elsewhere.
Yet in Revelations 21, we find this God of Love throwing unbelievers into a lake that burns with fire and brimstone and Christians think this is the act of a just and loving God.
So why did a just and loving God write a rule requiring him to throw unbelievers into Hell?
2007-04-22
03:21:11
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