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Thank you for the replies. The first reply regarding Edom, Moab, the Sodomites, etc., all this relates to life on earth, and those who die, will no longer live on the earth.
Of course, many who were sinful in this life did not receive the punishment they deserved. That will take place in the Final Judgement.
The earthly judgments on the disobedient serve as an example, because the punishment they received while on earth foreshadows the eternal judgment at the end of time, when ALL the unrighteous will be raised and judged to receive eternal punishment.
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You don't understand the difference between punishment and sadism. Punishment is done to an end. It is corrective in nature and designed to bring about a change in the person being punished. It is to make the offended realize what he has done and turn from that way of living.
Furthermore, punishment is always just. We know what justice is because God Himself gave us the standard in lex talionis. Lex talionis means that the punishment fits the offense. You do not hang a child for stealing a loaf of bread. God gave those lex talionis laws because mankind is totally inclined to vengeance, the kind of vengeance that Infernalists attribute to the Father. This is called making an idol, a false representation of God. Infernalists have placed the patina of retribution over the God who is love.
In Lex Talionis, there is no sin that is worth unending suffering with no goal to be achieved. That is not justice, that is sadism.
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