I could be wrong (yes, i'm sure some fanatics will say 'who are YOU to question God?') but I thought the purpose of punishment was to deter and reform.
Take prison for example. It acts as a deterent to commit crimes because people don't want to go there, and (hopefully) the people who do go there won't want to go back (reforming them). I DO know that this doesn't work on everyone.
So what about God's punishment of eternal torment in Hell? Ok, it may act as a deterent for people who believes the religion but God must know there are MILLIONS of people who don't (we all KNOW prison exists), so the deterent is not very strong. Plus there is absolutely NO reform. Apparently Hell is an ETERNAL punishment, so you can't come back after a good torturing and say 'wow I really don't wanna go back there so I'll be good from now on'.
So apart from the slight deterent, it seems to me (yes, i'm only a mere mortal) that the only thing gained from he punishment of Hell is God's revenge.
2007-06-27
21:07:06
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