Anarchist Miracle
Mallorys Wedgie Friend
Anarchist Miracle
Mallorys Wedgie Friend
sheepofdarkness
How? And how do souls in eternal physical torment "please" God?
I never said that he was pleased by doing this... it was a colloquialism (sp?).
Anyway, the fact that, if we are talking about most Gods, that are omnipotent "creatures", or whatever you'd like to think of them, would allow them to defy physics, psychology, and reality in general. So, you say that we would eventually become accustomed to the pain of hell, well, if God wanted to, he could just make it so that accustomed feeling to pain, misery, torture, etc. goes away, and once again, we're being tortured again.
I was talking about the Christian God specifically, and why would he want humans to feel physical pain? What does He gain?
That would be more of a question for those who wrote the Bible. I say, that of course, because I don't believe in God.
I say it would be more of a question for those that insist on a literal interpretation of certain parts of the Bible.
Mallorys Wedgie Friend
Anyway, I would imagine that God would want us to feel pain because he wants to understand that we have sinned, etc. Remember that it does say that God is all loving, however, it never says he won't use "tough love", so to speak, to show his love.
"Tough love" in all the incarnations I have ever seen means using pain to teach something. Once the lesson is taught, there is no more need for the pain. Whereas Hell is defined as an eternal punishment, and any understanding gained from it is completely inapplicable.
The tough love argument you made is only relative insofar as we're talking about Christianity. In Islam and Hinduism, they're "hells", though, I cannot recall their specific names, are only temporary and one will eventually reach heaven, somewhat like the idea of Dante's Purgatorio.
