Yet your previous comment indicated you haven't seriously considered UR.
Which comment was that?
By the way, just as does Doug Melven, I do see universal reconciliation in the scriptures. It is universal justification by faith which I do not see in the scriptures.
A million years of choosing to reject & be tormented was never said to be a surety. Even if it was, it would be nothing next to endless torments.
One million years or two years in the fire would be a finite number of years. But they would not be nothing.
Not when it's of their own choice, as i said:
It is hard for us to understand how a good God could create a man, place him in a garden with a tree the fruit of which would kill him, place a beautiful talking creature in the garden to tempt him to eat the fruit, punish the man for giving in, provide salvation for the man's offspring which must be accessed by faith - then provide a Damascus road experience only for a chosen few while leaving others to flounder in their lack of faith until they die and find themselves in the fires of judgment.
But now you would have us believe that God not only passed some by with those kinds of special visits He was capable of giving them. But He now tortures the ones He failed to convince of the truth (as He did Paul for instance).
Having refused to write the gospel on the ceiling of those people with His finger when they reached the age of understanding - He now tortures them for a few years in the fire, preaches the gospel to them every now and then and asks if they are ready to submit to it. When they will not - He leaves them in the fire for a few more years and visits them again. He does this over and over again, knowing full well that there is a "50%" chance they will submit each time He gives them the gospel.
He knows that there is no real mathematical chance that they will not believe in Christ given enough time in the fires.
This is His method of convincing billions of people that the gospel is true when He could well have appeared in a bright light and given them the gospel every year or so while they lived their lives here on earth for 70 or 80 years?????
Clean up the picture above a little if you must. I'm still not buying your version.
I'll take the one where God requires faith in His Word while living this physical life in order to be saved because it was a lack of faith in His Word which caused our horrible fall to judgment in the first place.
I'll take the one where each and everything that happens in creation (bar none) is an example of some facet of God's nature to be displayed for eternity to creatures only God knows about.
What corrective purpose do you think it serves?
The corrective purpose He wishes to visit on those who may be tempted to rebel in the ages to come perhaps?
We haven't been told enough to know for sure how He will use it. We only know that whatever He does (by and for and in His Word) will accomplish exactly what He sent the Word forth to accomplish.
You've already made a judgement of Him as in what you think He will do to human beings for eternity. It's not good. And it's not scriptural.
It's not an enjoyable truth to contemplate. But it is indeed scriptural.
I both trust Him and understand.
You understand incorrectly IMO. But then we've been over that before.
You are just whistling through a graveyard. Your God is as much a monster as mine would be if I chose to judge Him while only seeing Him through a foggy glass. I don't choose to do that and neither should you.
