Re: [asa] Religious brainwashing

I come at the matter from a different direction. Consider the problem of
an individual who has freely avoided or rejected the grace that makes him
fit to enjoy the awful holiness of the Almighty. The most horrible state
would be to be in that presence eternally. The essential nature of hell
is that it is where one need not the aware of God. Hence hell is God's
loving provision for those who cannot stand to be in heaven and whom he
will not change against their will. As I understand it, I must be remade
in the likeness of my Savior, with a /soma pneumatikon/, in order to fit
into the heavenly scene.
Dave

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:21:23 -0600 Carol or John Burgeson
<burgytwo@juno.com> writes:
> Merv mentioned: "So put another way, we can't stand the thought that
> an
> unrepentant
> Hitler or Pol Pot wouldn't suffer for their crimes any more than
> they
> did if they just die. As a staunch Atheist friend of mine put it
> with
> Shakespearian reference --- you have to have your pound of flesh,
> don't
> you, Merv. This mysterious currency "of principle" runs stronger
> in us
> sometimes than even our own desire to enjoy reward or avoid
> punishment
> for ourselves."
>
> There is a recent book, IF GRACE BE TRUE, which argues that God will
> win
> out in the end, and therefore everyone (including Hitler) will be
> saved.
> Otherwise, argues the author, God, in a sense, fails, and that is
> absurd. He makes a decent (but not persuasive to me) case for this
> position and the book (I disremember the author and the book is
> packed
> away) is worth reading. There is a whole chapter on Adolf.
>
> Burgy
>
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>
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