Christianity and
Islam teach that at death, if we are estranged from God, we will go to Hell to
suffer forever and once we go there it is impossible for us to leave.
If a person sincerely
does not believe in God, that person cannot deserve everlasting punishing.
The person who thinks
there is no may be no God can still do good and please
him. If good, God is pleased by the love
of those who are ignorant of his existence.
So, it is no objection to argue that if God hid himself he would be
preventing himself from being loved.
Those who voice the objection know fine well that God hides himself from
many so who do they think they are trying to hoodwink?
The person can be
either an Atheist or an Agnostic.
You cannot help what
you believe. Belief is caused by your
thoughts. You have one thought every
moment in which you are not aware of anything else. The next thought comes even though you did
not summon it.
God can stop a person
deserving everlasting damnation by changing their belief. Belief influences what you do. If a person makes immoral choices it is
because of their beliefs.
God manipulates our
beliefs all the time but he won’t do it the right way so he really does send
people into Hell and Christians should not be blaming the damned. God prolongs the sin of the damned by
arranging their fall. The doctrine of
Hell teaches that God is a partner in the sins that happen there.
If nobody dies in sin
and God needs to damn people forever for a reason what would he do? He has no reason to damn anybody – the Bible
even says his original plan was that all people be
right with him but Adam thwarted it. His
saying that sin should not happen accentuates this.
Either God is a
sadist in putting people in everlasting Hell by refusing to alter their beliefs
or in putting them there no matter what they believe or do even though sincerity
should not be punished.
God does not need to
damn anybody because he did not even need to make us. He would not be God if he needed to make us
for he would not even be perfect. So, if
damnation is necessary it is not because of him but it somehow benefits the
saints. Then he could make the saints
believe there is a Hell though there is not and save everybody.
The nature of belief
implies that God is evil if he sentences anybody to eternal life in Hades.
It is an error to say
that the Devil reigns in Hell for the Devil is not in Hell but is in Heaven and
he occupies its throne.
The godly must admit
that their God tricks us all the time. In
the desert you will see a mirage of an oasis or town. He does not shake you out of your errors when
you make them. Purpose or not he is
still deceiving you.
The Christians say
that everlasting punishing exists for a purpose. That purpose is sometimes said to give the
person the right to be away from God forever if the person dies estranged from
him or because it shows how bad sin is or for some reason we cannot
understand. The second one is certainly
false for you couldn’t be in Hell only you knew how bad sin is and the saints
would not know good and God if they did not realise how terrible sin was. You would or could have innocent people being
sent to Hell if it were needed for a purpose.
And the choice
argument is wrong and is malevolent for the right to change our minds comes
first.
So, if everlasting
punishment exists for a mysterious purpose it is not for God’s benefit for he
cannot benefit from Hell if he wants all to love him and what is right. That is why the souls that go there are
described as lost. An all-powerful God
would not need Hell so it is something in the created beings in Heaven that
makes it necessary. It must have
something to do with helping the saints.
The Church has to agree with that for despite the absurdity of
sanctified beings needing to see us in Hell.
The Church must hold that this option is the best of a bad lot.
So, God should put
the souls in Hell in a place where they can choose him and from which they will
be taken to a secret Heaven as soon as they do instead of Hell. He can then create the illusion of these
people being in Hell and nobody will be the wiser.
Could it be that God
only said that he will put people in eternal punishment but has no intention of
doing so?
Why tell people on earth
that lie for we don’t need to have the doctrine and should not be influenced by
the fear of it anyway? We are told to do
good because it is good and not because pain will afflict us as a result of
evil. And fear is useless and fear is
the root of all evil. The fear of Hell
can result in religious bigotry. Why would God slander himself to us?
Religion says the the saints may need to believe in Hell. But even so we do not. There would be no point in making a real Hell
if the saints cannot be sure if it is real or not and they cannot be. Therefore the suggestion that it is fake seems more plausible.
If God revealed Hell he revealed it because it exists and for nothing
else.
So if Hell exists
then God is evil. We have no control
over our beliefs but God has this control over them so if Hell is real the
saints would not be able to doubt it but they can. And if Hell is unreal, God would have no need
to create the illusion but just program their beliefs and get whatever benefit
it creates that way.
If Hell is unreal God
is evil. If Hell is real he would be
even more evil.