ok, so you should also always assume there is an alien under your bed, going to eat you. so never get off the bed, its the only practical conclusion. — PeterPants
However, the severity of threat is almost unimaginable (hell for eternity) — TheMadFool
According to some. — BlueBanana
2. If God is good then God is just
3. If God is just then the bad must be punished — TheMadFool
5. Hell must exist. — TheMadFool
You're right. Forgiveness is essential to God's nature. However, if everything can be forgiven then there's no difference between good and bad. But the distinction good and bad is also an essential nature of God. A paradox. One of the following has to be discarded:If God is good he forgives — BlueBanana
Even if the reasoning was correct, only bad people would go to Hell, not non-believers. — BlueBanana
You're right. Forgiveness is essential to God's nature. However, if everything can be forgiven then there's no difference between good and bad. But the distinction good and bad is also an essential nature of God. A paradox. One of the following has to be discarded:
1. Forgiveness
2. Good-bad distinction
Since 2 can't be discarded because that is a foundation on which God rests, 1 has to be the one that's wrong. Perhaps you can do better. — TheMadFool
If you don't believe then you're bad. — TheMadFool
There is difference between good and bad. Just not in their treatment or consequences. There is no contradiction betwden 1 and 2. — BlueBanana
What? How? Why? Is this the "atheists are evil" argument? Or is not believing in itself bad? ??? ? — BlueBanana
However, what is the logic of heaven and hell then? Why do all prophets preach it? Is it because we haven't matured enough to understand the true value of morality, thereby requiring a carrot-stick paradigm to encourage us to be moral? — TheMadFool
I mean not believing in God would be tantamount to not believing in Good, in morality. — TheMadFool
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