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What is the purpose for punishment?
To execute fair justice.
Justice would not be executed fairly if Universalism was true, or if ECT (Eternal Conscious Torment) was true.
If Universalism was true, it would not be fair justice because people who did evil would just eventually make into Heaven (despite them being unrepentant and unwilling to come to God). If Universalism was true, it means that what I do in this life really does not matter, and there are no real consequences to my actions in the grand scope of eternity.
If Eternal Conscious Torment was true, it would not be fair justice because God would be punishing a person waaaay beyond what the crime calls for. He would be punishing a person for eternity for a finite amount of sins committed. That is overkill, and cruel, and it is not fair justice. That would be like endlessly torturing a child for lying to their parents. It's overkill and cruel. It doesn't make any sense.
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