[ExI] BICEP2 and the Fermi paradox

[spike]

>. On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace
Subject: Re: [ExI] BICEP2 and the Fermi paradox

 

>. And although in some ways the New Testament is kinder and gentler than
the Old in other ways it is not. Yahweh may be the most unpleasant character
in all of fiction but at least when you were dead he was through messing
around with you; but when you kick the bucket Jesus is just getting warmed
up and is determined to torturer you at a intensity level beyond human
imagination and to keep doing it not for an astronomical number of years but
for an INFINITE number of years. John K Clark

 

John, I partially agree with what you say, however the notion of eternal
suffering for the wicked is a more recent invention than the writings of the
NT.  It makes comments in there about the final fate of the wicked
unbelievers, but it doesn't actually say anything about an immoral soul, or
that the suffering of the damned is eternal.  Their damnation is said to be
eternal, but it doesn't say they are alive to suffer.  The worm dieth not
and the fire is not quenched (Mark ch.9) but that's the worm and the fire,
not the damned humans.  

The notion of eternal suffering of an immortal being was invented centuries
after the last word of the NT was written.

spike





 

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