No reasonable person would discount the possibility of a Biblical hell existing.
A reasonable person acknowledges that he or she is a finite being with limited knowledge and knows very little about eternity and infinity.
Any person who does not acknowledge one’s own inadequacy and ineptitude when it comes to omniscience and omnipotence and omnipresence is deluded.
What many people do is reject the possibility of eternal judgment because they are inwardly, and unconsciously, cowards, who are afraid to face the truth about their own insignificance.
Justice, if it is a real concept, demands reward and retribution. Retribution speaks of punishment. Punishment could be eternal and, even if not eternal, unbearable and not something that a person would delight in experiencing. Eternal punishment would be an indescribable hell because it exists in a dimension of which a mere mortal has no understanding.
A person can accept that life is futile, or refuse to accept the definition that it is pointless being born to die if one can conceive of eternity. Those who claim that being born to die is a meaningful existence have a dilemma. At best, being a mere mortal faced with the prospects of death, the mortal will cease to exist and nothing will matter. However, when the time approaches the mortal might become anxious about the unknown: what will happen after ceasing to be in this temporal existence, since the idea of eternal punishment exists.
Possibilities Are Dreams For Unbelievers But Realities For Those Who Have Faith
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