KillingPain267
Warlock
- Apr 15, 2024
- 739
No, there are degrees of punishment (maybe that's the duration of the divine execution or the intensity, but never eternal conscious torture like the traditionalist view says). But first of all, there are no fundamentally "decently moral persons", since everyone is inherently sinful, selfish and has committed sins and hatred/indifference toward their neighbor. It's like those ctb preventionists saving someone during an attempt, they may outwardly appear to be decently moral persons but all they do is decide to control the attempter and possibly leaving them with injuries instead. But outwardly the preventionist can go around claiming to be a hero and selfishly receive praise and not even care about how you are years after the attempt. So everyone deserves be judged and perish forever because everyone is fundamentally motivated by selfishness and thus committed sins of indifference/neglect towards his neighbor at least some times). The only chance at avoiding the "second death" is to be forgiven of sins (everything from lying, stealing, lending on usury, blasphemy, to murder and indifference towards the sick and poor, exploitation, cruelty, domination etc.; it's like a spectrum from mild to severe yet we're all on the spectrum so to speak). This is where faith/belief comes in: the only chance to escape the spectrum entirely and be forgiven of sins is by truly admitting to not being a "morally decent person" and trusting the savior Jesus and that he died for our sins and rose again (that's the whole point of him doing that).
