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Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
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Date: 
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:28:17 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:But COME ON, eternal damnation?  I'm supposed to believe that an

all-powerful all-wise being, a being capable of producing this whole
universe and everything in it, capable of sending his son to die for
our sins, is also capable of doing the equivalent of pulling the wings
off flies for all eternity?

Don't buy it, but I know a lot of people who do.


Think of it this way, Mike.  God isn't the one doing the damning.  There are people
who hate the light and love darkness.  Even faced with God in His glory, *they
choose* the darkness, because of their stubborn pride and selfishness.  I find this
idea of Hell *very* believable-- got it from CS Lewis in The Great Divorce.

-John



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  Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
 
(...) So you're saying that you believe that people will literally burn for all eternity in Hell? That God, in his infinite wisdom, knowledge, love, and compassion, could actually allow that to happen? Why? What possible point could there be for (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
 
(...) A LOT of Christians don't believe Hell is just the absence of God (eternal lonliness maybe, or do you mean annihilation?) - they literally believe it is a real lake of fire into which all the bad people will be thrown, to burn and be tortured (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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