"...I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me..." [Deuteronomy 5:8-10]
I can hear Jesus say over and over again: "You err because you do not know the scriptures." Hell is not so hard to figure out. It is not figurative. It is not here on earth. It is not temporary. It is not simply separation from God (certainly the knowing presence of God and the work of His hands is indelibly there for eternity). Modern evangelicals and Christians of many flavors fear man and not God. We use the wisdom of man in a never-ending PR campaign to get the world to finally like us, so in our false and incomplete modern gospel of emphasizing the "love" of God without the justice and reality of what one is being saved from, we diminish the holiness of God, and our Christian culture in music, preaching, teaching, literature, etc, reflects it. When will we realize that the everlasting destruction of Hell actually glorifies God by making His efforts to get our attention through the millinia, especially via the cross and resurrection, as well as other characteristics of His, such as His patience, longsuffering and forbearance in spite of our rebellion, stand out like a diamond against a black velvet cloth?
Posted By: Scriptdreamer | April 15, 2011 3:57 PM
My first comment in reply to this was comment was deleted. I wonder if this was because I questioned the notion of God being a moral monster with a bad temper... Or if it because I questioned the literal truth of the Bible?
The more I talk to Fundamentalists, the more I realize that they actually do believe God is nothing more than an infinitely unspeakable asshole.
A poor girl freaks out when her professor won't answer her question "why does evolution kill black people". Oh dear. Fundamentalism and mental illness do not go well together... I wonder if the student's Pastor (or whoever else fed her this nonsense) feels proud of themself?
The Youtube comments to the video contain this gem:
@DrTruthiness you're in no position to deem that nigger female as crazy unless you are a qualified mental health professional. Therefore its just as likely her outburst was a result of her inherint inability to cope inside a modern technological superior IQ white civilization. Her race therefore is the problem here because of the inherint low IQ and instability within her DNA. Has fuck all to do with her shit skin color as you bleeding heart nigger hugging queers try to make it all about. Jenkemakaveli TheDon
There is your argument. That it *IS* is objectively “good” to gloat at billions of people suffering infinite, eternal torment for the sins of a human lifetime.
End Bringer replied:
...Aquinas was talking about the “rejoicing” being that good and justice has triumphed (those billions of people DO deserve it), rather than being happy suffering is being inflicted in itself.
And then:
Aquinas’s... was saying it’s objectively good to be glad justice and righteousness have triumphed, rather than simply because people suffer. If people suffer BECAUSE justice and righteousness are triumphant than the only conclusion is that their punishment is earned.
Rejoice that billions of people will burn in hell! They deserve it.
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