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If punishing crime via torture is wrong for humans how can it be thought to be right for God?
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Let me say that the only reason I posted it was to get an honest opinion to this seeming paradox of people condemning humans who torture and praising a God they feel sends people to be tortured. I also posted it because a defamation of God's character should be defended against by anyone who claims to be a Christian or anyone else who loves God. I consider the accusation that God created a place of torture to send the disobedient an insult to God. An idea which depicts him as sadistic. Now, to remain silent in the face of such a depiction is to cooperate with the defamation via silence. Therefore, when I posted this thread, I assumed that those who say they love God would take it as an opportunity to come out in his defense by disproving the accusation either scripturally or via logic.
God calls us to Respect Human Life. Torture violates that. I might anticipate the next question: What is torture? Unfortunately we do not have God's laundry list of what is torture and what is not...
Certain denominations say so. When I was a child there was a very religious woman who regularly visited us in order to encourage church attendance and would always vehemently warn that God would send us to be tortured forever in a lake of fire if we didn't. She was very graphic in her description telling us to imagine the pain of a burning finger but over our whole body and magnified hundreds of time with no mercy being shown for our eternal screams of agony and please for help.
Ok, she was a bad lady. I hope that didn't affect you too much. You forever doubt yourself when that is drilled into you.
She was sincere in her belief and honestly wanted to help us and to please God. Strangely, my parents were never cowed into attending church due to fear of the torture she described. Me? I had been taught differently by someone who understood the Bible in a different way from the way she understood it so her words didn't affect me at all. However, I agree with you that such a belief can have a profound effect. I imagine that some individuals might be terrified into a life dedicated to avoiding getting into the situation she described. What puzzles me about this is that such persons would never punish their own children or anyone else in the way they describe God as doing yet they feel perfectly comfortable worshipping a being that they believe does approve of it for those that dare dosobey him.
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