Originally Posted by Moriah Conquering Wind

Proper "punishment for evil" does not involve becoming evil itself in the process.
Not to mention, proper "punishment" in any context serves a rehabilitative purpose. When your children mouth off or disobey, you don't punish them by taking them out into the street and throwing them under a lorrie to destroy them. You give them a time out or some other penalty as a means of using negative reinforcement to try to train them not to repeat the undesired behavior. Throwing sentient creatures into an eternally burning pit where they have no opportunity to learn anything and spend eternity in excruciating agony unable even to die (or if you prefer the annihilationist interpretation, eventually ending in their being snuffed from existence for all eternity) teaches absolutely nothing and serves no rehabilitative or salvific purpose whatsoever. Which bes why most people who can stick out the apparent contradictions of faith for longer than 2-5 years start digging past the regurgitated tripe served from the typical pulpit and start trying to investigate the original languages and the writings of scholars daring to bring some intelligence to bear upon divining the meaning of scripture, to determine what reality might lie past the lurking, drooling, offputting threshhold of concrete literalism and its horrors.

If you study your holy book carefully you will notice a paradox: the same God referred to as perfect and unchanging also frequently changes His mind. If you study further you will notice a pattern: His unchangingness bes only invoked in reference to His mercy.

People that clamor for "judgment" and harrumph bellicosely about imagining that they find themselves smack dab in the very risen cream of the milk of God's will bes in for one serious rude awakening. Only the spiritually blind clamor for judgment and argue it as righteous. Those what see clearly know they deserve it just as much as anyone else upon whose head they relish seeing it fall, and keep their polluted mouths shut as a result and their attitudes about themselves shoved down into humility range where they belong.

And the verse it believes the earlier poster to be referring to can be found in Psalm 137:9.

Originally Posted by sugarhitman

So when does God send infants to hell? When does he "rejoices" when babies's heads are bashed in? You are so woefully ignorant and unruly that you cant even distinguish between sadistic terrorism and righteous Judgement.......call it what you want but the Lord "will punish the world for its' evil" Anarchists see the one as evil who holds the power of Authority who has the sword at his side. (common criminals also dispise law enforcement and authority) But wise people understand that such a thing is needed to guard against people of like minds.

Originally Posted by sugarhitman

The evil done by kids and adults is a BIG difference for kids understand (at least not fully) what they do...but adults do. And besides God has tried to discipline mankind many times guess what they persist in their rebellion.


The Word of God clamours for Judgement....Judgement contitutes Justice....and Justice will be served against the enemies of God...sorry but that is what His word says....so put a sock in it already. :wave: