[GCFL-discuss] Burned

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Sounds like human reasoning to me!

Dajas
On Fri, 21 May 2004 18:25:24 -0500 gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net writes:
> It is easy to understand why God might not admit everyone into 
> eternal
> life, when their life on earth is over and done and weighed, but it 
> is
> difficult to comprehend why God would bother to torture anyone, no 
> matter
> how depraved, for all eternity. What's the point? It makes for 
> lurid
> fiction that sells action books, but what's in it for God?
> 
> Scripture does provide an alternative perspective: Jesus used the 
> parable
> of how withered dead branches are gathered up by a farmer and 
> burned.
> Well, a farmer does not gather up dead branches to roast them slowly 
> over
> hot coals for maximum pain. They are simply useless to him, so he 
> wants
> to reduce them quickly to a useable substance and recycle them as
> fertilizer. I don't want to get back into good works again, 
> salvation by
> faith is important, and it is a matter of grace. But God may not 
> bother
> to torture souls for eternity. Think how the shrieks of agony would
> disturb his joy and peace.
> 
> Siarlys