Of course I keep bringing it up.
If you guys had an answer for it, that would be one thing -- but you never do. It's a perfectly airtight logical syllogism, drawn straight from the express words of Jesus Himself.
It frustrates you, because you can clearly see what Jesus is saying -- and you don't like it one bit.
Which is why I keep bringing it to the table.
Every single time.
;-)
The trick is that at that very moment, the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon and Sodom were waiting, as spirits in prison, for Jesus to preach to them and every other person who had ever lived on the planet and who had never had the opportunity to hear and receive the gospel message (1 Peter 3:20, 1 Peter 4:6, Isaiah 42:7, John 5:25, 1 Corinthians 15:29, 1 Corinthians 15:29).
Despite the wickedness of those cities of the past, a merciful God was preparing to send His Son to them that they might yet repent, and that "the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live".
... and your faulty swiss-cheese logic gets refuted over and over again, also. 80) Yet still you soldier on.
Are you still trying to convince people that God withholds the ability to repent and then punishes them with eternity in hell for not repenting? That is contrary to the justice of God, not to mention that it is contrary to the love, mercy, and wisdom of God, and Bible Truth. That is all that needs to be said.
Those who did not get a first chance will in the justice of God get a first chance. On the other hand, those who lie in wait to deceive will find out that they themselves have been very seriously deceived.