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Originally Posted by newsbone  Where did you get the impression that God’s love is unconditional? You really need to have a rethink on that false perspective that you have been sold. God has always been restrictive to all his creation, what do you think of the laws that govern nature, the earth, the universe? If any of these laws are broken the consequences are always so severe. Look at our bodies, they obey various laws like; don’t touch an open flame, don’t step on sharp objects, etc, all these are for our own good. Most of the time the word ‘IF’ is used in the Bible, this un-fortunately is a conditional term. As humanity we live by choices and by them our life is determined, after making decisions we become subjects to our choices, thus must accept the consequence that come with them, however painful they might be. |
There's a serious scaling issue with this, though.
If I step on a nail, I don't live with unbarable pain in my foot forever. If i touch a flame, I don't feel the pain from that flame forever. They have temporary responses, that are used for me to learn not to do those things again. It's not a one shot and your done sort of thing.
However, with what you are discussing, if I happen not to choose the correct religion out of the probably millions that are out there, I go to hell. Not only for a moment, not so I can see I made a wrong choice and change my mind, but forever, with no chance of getting out of it. So it's a guessing game with a cruel outcome. It's like an extreme version of Russian Roulette, with five bullets loaded instead of one, and we don't even get the choice whether or not we want to play.
For at least 1500 years, there was a whole side of the world no one knew about, and no one was able to preach to. How did they have any chance of all of getting to heaven?
No offense to your beliefs, of course, but that kind of comparison you were making is falacious.