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To: jimmyray

Calvin’s god was a Sadistic monster. It wasn’t incumbent upon him to create souls for no other purpose than to torment them eternally in hell. To create a living soul with the ability to feel pain, agony & despair, & to do so solely for the purpose of placing that soul in a place of eternal torture, is vile. Kind of like Calvin wishing to see a person die for a fundamental theological fallacy. Nowhere in the New Testament is it even remotely suggested that we should kill those who don’t believe. You trust Calvin to be right on the idea of souls created for no other purpose than eternal torture, yet you see no problem with him desiring the death of a person mired in theological error. There was no Golden Rule involved in wishing for Servetus’ death. It was a violation of New Testament teaching & a vicious thing to do.

The God revealed in the Bible is not Sadistic. Here is a description of the true God:

9 “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.” 2 Pet. 3

The true God doesn’t wish for anyone to spend eternity in torment. In this sense, as in so many others, He is fundamentally different from Calvin’s god.


74 posted on 05/30/2014 8:28:16 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

You err on the idea of eternal torture. The Lake of fire is the second death, perishining, being destroyed - all biblical words. There is no eternal torture!


75 posted on 05/30/2014 8:59:31 AM PDT by jimmyray
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