JustLooking:<br><br>First off, sorry for the delay (I usually only read at this board and so don't check back too often... kinda forgot [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/blush.gif" alt="blush" title="blush[/img] ). Anyway, in reply to my post that it is not evil when God justly punishes with eternal fire, you said:<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]This is an incredible statement!</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>It is only incredible when one seeks answers via emotions and not by reason or, most importantly, Scripture.<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Is it evil to burn people alive or not? Apparently, according to you, it is only evil according to who does it?</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>Yes, the goodness or lack of goodness of an action is typically dependant on the person doing the action. For example, murder is always wrong, but killing is not always wrong. Murder is always wrong because it is wrong by definition (however, God cannot murder, by definition). God is never acting immorally in killing men/women, however humans may be evil in killing other men. Can we agree to that? Then what is evil for is not necessarily evil when God does it. One of the things we are not permitted, which God is permitted, is to punish with everlasting fire. That God punishes with such fire is a Scriptural committment, and not mine to defend. As it is written, "If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded, even though one rose from the dead" (Luke 16:31). I can provide you with clear Biblical proofs that God punishes eternally, but whether you will hear is not for me to decide.<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]During the inquisition, priests thought they were doing God’s will by torturing people, they thought that their evil was good because they were doing it in God’s name. Religions have done this throughout the ages.</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>The problem is that you're still talking about people here. There is a vast difference between men performing torture in the name of God and God executing judgement. <br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Is it evil to burn people alive forever or not?</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>This depends whether you are man, or the Creator of men.<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Do you really believe that burning people alive, people that have been deceived all of their lives, people that don’t know up from down, is not evil?</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>You forget that they are deceived by themselves, and quite willfully. They know there is a God, and they do everything they can to convince themselves otherwise. They've sinned, and their very own hearts condemn them. The Bible says that God punishes them eternally, and if God does it an action is certainly not evil. <br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]I’m really not looking for something that pleases me, I’m looking for the truth of this matter.</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>I believe you are trying quite hard to convince yourself of that. The bottom line is that everything I've read in this thread by you has been purely emotion driven. I have yet to read anything in your posts that begins to address this philosophically or Scripturally.<br><br>I apologize if my words are a bit hard. I do think it would be good if you would look to something other than emotion to find answers. <br><br>[color:red]<center>"So feed us all another lie; to sooth our thoughts, appease our pride. <br>So we won't have to change the way we see, we live, we love, we die." -- Thrice</center></font color=red>
