#051 | Our human notion of justice in which punishment for an offense is finite is evidently misguided in light of the eternal torment deemed proper by the Most Righteous Judge. How can we learn to feel as satisfied as God does about our kids/friends eternally burning in Hell?
#050 | What is the principle of justice that grounds the punishment (not just consequences) of those who did not commit the offense being punished? E.g., “…punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation…” & Matt 23:35 (blood-guilt).
#049 | I’ve heard God becomes more angry at and must exact greater punishment of a lying child than the parents because of his hierarchical predominance. If I were President, and a young girl lied to me, why must I more severely punish her? What would ground my more severe wrath?
#048 | Even very sadistic parents relent after burning the lying child with cigarette butts for a few weeks. Why is God’s anger against the lie not appeased after a few epochs of horrific pain if that child dies from the parents’ punishment? Are there rules of just punishment? What are they?
#040 | Is it not a sin for those of us with the Spirit of God to resist wrathfully deeming our lying child worthy of eternal torment? Are not parents who chuckle at the chocolate-smudged face of a cookie-thieving child themselves sinning and clearly worthy of eternal torment for this?
#031 | As loving, altruistic fathers, we punish our children to teach them, and never to retaliate against them for breaking our rules. Why would the biblical God become so wrathful (John 3:18) that he eternally and without rehabilitation punishes those he claims to love?
#015 | Perhaps it would assuage the concerns of many who don’t know how far evangelicals will go if you could specify and justify the penalties you deem appropriate for the sins of adultery, abortion, fornication, obesity, and witchcraft if the US was predominately Christian.
#011 | Since we now know that pain is merely neurological and does not need an actual physical event such as fire burning oddly flammable bodies in Hell, are the flames of Hell simply for dramatic effect as the righteous in Heaven look on in appreciation of this “justice“?
#007 | Amy claims God should not be considered a loving father when assessing his condemning to eternal torment the child who lies, but rather a righteous judge. Granted. But now explain how any righteous judge who is not actually cruel finds satisfaction in such torment of a child.
#006 | Why is the emotional and punitive response of Christian parents to their child’s sin so distant from the reality that the sin has invoked a degree of the wrath of God that requires the blood of a deity or the child’s eternal torment? Would not stoning be more appropriate?
#005 | Stoning a disobedient child is very consistent with the justice of the Christian God who himself deems that child worthy of eternal torment. Why do modern Christians, who presumably have the mind of God, merely laugh at the lies of the chocolate-smudged, cookie-stealing child instead of applying a punishment more representative of God’s disposition?
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