Is it fair to punish a finite "crime" with an infinite punishment?

Answer 1

What does the Bible say the penalty for sin is?

Rom. 6:23: “The wages sin pays is death.”

After one’s death, is he still subject to further punishment for his sins?

Rom. 6:7: “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin.”

Is eternal torment of the wicked compatible with God’s personality?

Jer. 7:31: “They [apostate Judeans] have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.” (If it never came into God’s heart, surely he does not have and use such a thing on a larger scale.)

Illustration: What would you think of a parent who held his child’s hand over a fire to punish the child for wrongdoing? “God is love.” (1 John 4:8) Would he do what no right-minded human parent would do? Certainly not!

Answer 2

that sounds like what's proposed with the help of many theists. @no1home2day: <> Now, to me, that's a ethical difficulty. that's like a protection racket. settle for the 'protection' regulations of X, or X will organize so you may be tortured with the help of an underworld expert. If X is a Mafia don or a god, is there a distinction interior the morality of that? Now what regulations? If I stay a somewhat solid existence, being a superb guy, etc, yet do no longer even save on with X, then in accordance to the believers of X, i visit be despatched to this underworld torturer. If, on the different hand, I stay a plenty worse existence, being mean or perhaps risky to human beings, yet settle for the regulations of X, then i do no longer meet this torturer. So the advantages/punishment style of "sins" isn't approximately morality yet approximately adherence. If we utilized that concept among human beings, the place X is a Mafioso, we would regard that as immoral.

Answer 3

Depends on the finite crime.

If it was raping and killing your 10 year old daughter and a court gave the rapist 3-5 and he was out in 18 months because of prision over population, you'd feel that was cool!

Charlie Manson will be coming up for parole again soon, you going to go there and ROOT for him getting it this time or do you want him to rot in there forever.

I mean, they ALREADY let Squeeky Frome out! Why not him too!

Answer 4

Actually, the crime is infinite because unregenerated people will go on sinning forever. If each of us want to be honest, we sin every day (and probably every hour or more). Since our souls will live forever, our sin will also be infinite unless we ask GOD for help.

In that case, upon the death of our physical body, GOD will give us a perfect, sinless, glorified body like Christ's body. Then we are allowed in heaven which is perfect.

To open up the floodgates and allow every demon to infest heaven would only ruin heaven. If you want to go to heaven, admission is free. You only have to be willing to leave your sin behind.

You, sir, make a terrible god. Your accusations against the Holy One fall flat. If you want to go to heaven, GOD is willing to take you in.

If you want to go to hell, you can do that, too.

Since GOD gives you exactly what you want, how can you accuse Him?

Are you just mad because He won't let you ruin heaven for everyone else?

Answer 5

Let us say it's not. Now what are you going to do? Take God to court and sue him? When a person meets God in a spiritual encounter we see right away that we are sinful and that it's not a case of having committed a crime. You know your guilt and you can only ask for mercy. The Bible tells us over and over that it's by the Spirit. Realizing our sin, realizing God's perfection, seeing our need for mercy and not justice, realizing that Jesus Christ is savior, seeing that we can never earn God's favor apart from his grace, all these things are revealed to us by God's Holy Spirit, not by logic and reason. God is in charge, and once you see that you stop philosophizing about him and start seeking him and his mercy.

Answer 6

Depends on the crime. Cause the only one that we shall be punished for, for infinity, is the one of not believing in god.

Answer 7

People choose to b e punished or not, regardless of what they have done. Hell is separation from God, which is, I hear often, many people want.

Answer 8

depends. If you're talking about heaven, yes, God can't be in the presence of anyone guilty of sin.

On earth, no, it would be wrong to give the death penalty to someone who steals candy from a baby.

Answer 9

crime is sinful and the reward for sin is infinite death. so says the holy book.

Answer 10

Of course it is!
God does it all the time!

Remember to beat your kids forever for the finite things they do!
You want to be just like God, don't you?