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It seems to me that much of Western theology presents man as "deserving" hell. Is this the Orthodox position also, that for our temporal sins we deserve eternal torment?
My thinking is that we "deserve" to be cured of our sickness, not punished like common criminals, yet the Western mindset appears to put even babies in this category of hardened criminality deserving to suffer forever in the fires of hell.
As I understand it, the Orthodox position I have read here and elsewhere (from Fr. Matt for instance) is that all are returned to God and experience His love, but the wicked will not experience it the same as the just. This seems a far cry from God rolling up His sleeves and with a malicious smile saying, "Now, boy, you gonna git what you got coming to you."
The West seems to have a very truncated view of what God's love is.
I guess my question is this: what exactly does man got coming to him?
Is it loving concern of a father for a desperately sick child, or just a beatin'?
It seems to me that much of Western theology presents man as "deserving" hell. Is this the Orthodox position also, that for our temporal sins we deserve eternal torment?
My thinking is that we "deserve" to be cured of our sickness, not punished like common criminals, yet the Western mindset appears to put even babies in this category of hardened criminality deserving to suffer forever in the fires of hell.
As I understand it, the Orthodox position I have read here and elsewhere (from Fr. Matt for instance) is that all are returned to God and experience His love, but the wicked will not experience it the same as the just. This seems a far cry from God rolling up His sleeves and with a malicious smile saying, "Now, boy, you gonna git what you got coming to you."
The West seems to have a very truncated view of what God's love is.
I guess my question is this: what exactly does man got coming to him?
Is it loving concern of a father for a desperately sick child, or just a beatin'?