Is Hell fair?

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Job8

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...I am quite troubled by it.
The only one who should be troubled about Hell is the sinner who has heard the Gospel and refused to obey it. Those who choose to reject Christ and His offer of eternal life are the ones who should be greatly troubled.

As to "fairness", when did sinful, mortal human beings receive the privilege of sitting in judgment on the Lord God Almighty?

All this talk about "fairness" is pure humanistic thinking. We can either believe that God is righteous is ALL His ways, or we can disbelieve it.
 
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The only one who should be troubled about Hell is the sinner who has heard the Gospel and refused to obey it. Those who choose to reject Christ and His offer of eternal life are the ones who should be greatly troubled.

As to "fairness", when did sinful, mortal human beings receive the privilege of sitting in judgment on the Lord God Almighty?

All this talk about "fairness" is pure humanistic thinking. We can either believe that God is righteous is ALL His ways, or we can disbelieve it.

Job8,

I do hope you want to be treated with fairness on CF. Fairness is our human response, often when we see experiences of injustice in our world.

Are Christians being treated with fairness in Nigeria by Boko Haram?

With regard to hell, those of us with an eye to human injustice in our world can ask what is a reasonable (and not a humanistic) question: Is it fair for God to eternally punish someone who temporarily opposed God? This goes with the accompanying question, 'Are there degrees of punishment in hell/Gehenna'?

I reject the idea that fairness comes from a humanistic emphasis.

Oz
 
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Job8,

Fairness is our human response, often when we see experiences of injustice in our world.

I reject the idea that fairness comes from a humanistic emphasis.

Oz

"“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: ..."
Isaiah 1:18a (ESV)

God gave us the ability to reason and consider, and in these last days He has given us of His very character. You have intellectualized and rationalized God as a monster.

Oz, do you need my other post spelled out? Hell is where the rich man was in torments, and the passage you use to say there is a state of torment after death. But in Revelation we are told that very same hell is tossed into the lake of fire, which is the second death.
You cannot show me a second life after death - or is hell burning forever even as it burns sinners forever? You're stuck defending your position instead of the truth.

Use the God given reason - people find themselves repulsed at the idea of someone burning forever for crimes committed in an instant by comparison. Why are they repulsed? The same reason murder and theft and cruelty repulse them - our God given reasoning.

You are saying that God is a cruel monster.
 
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Originally Posted by OzSpen
Job8,

Fairness is our human response, often when we see experiences of injustice in our world.

I reject the idea that fairness comes from a humanistic emphasis.

Oz
"“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: ..."
Isaiah 1:18a (ESV)

God gave us the ability to reason and consider, and in these last days He has given us of His very character. You have intellectualized and rationalized God as a monster.

Oz, do you need my other post spelled out? Hell is where the rich man was in torments, and the passage you use to say there is a state of torment after death. But in Revelation we are told that very same hell is tossed into the lake of fire, which is the second death.
You cannot show me a second life after death - or is hell burning forever even as it burns sinners forever? You're stuck defending your position instead of the truth.

Use the God given reason - people find themselves repulsed at the idea of someone burning forever for crimes committed in an instant by comparison. Why are they repulsed? The same reason murder and theft and cruelty repulse them - our God given reasoning.

You are saying that God is a cruel monster. __________________

James-49,

Here you have avoided answering the content of my post at #162.

Oz
 
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James-49,

Here you have avoided answering the content of my post at #162.

Oz

It's a non issue - you propose that sinners live eternally separated from God. The bible says they suffer the second death.

What you propose and contend attributes cruelty on God's part.
 
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Nope it attributes to his Divine Justice. God does not send people to hell/LoF, people send themselves to hell/LoF.

The whole idea of God being cruel because people are in hell/going to the LoF is a tiresome argument that has no bases in scripture.
 
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Nope it attributes to his Divine Justice. God does not send people to hell/LoF, people send themselves to hell/LoF.

The whole idea of God being cruel because people are in hell/going to the LoF is a tiresome argument that has no bases in scripture.

That is your personal opinion, so

And I ask everyone to get back to the Orthodox version of hell. Discussions of Unorthodoxy of hell is not allowed in this forum.

I leave you to your own personal hell
 
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It's a non issue - you propose that sinners live eternally separated from God. The bible says they suffer the second death.

What you propose and contend attributes cruelty on God's part.

Again, you avoided what you wrote at #162.

Bye!:wave:
 
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