Friday, July 22, 2022

Bonus Response to C. Jaye Cox's Annihilationism Arguments

I posted a rebuttal of what I see as CJ's top seven arguments for annihilationism (link).  There's another argument that didn't make it to the top seven.  

The extra argument goes that if the punishment for sin is an eternity in hell, then Hitler is getting the same punishment as the kindest, most outwardly righteous unbeliever (for example, Mother Theresa).

I don't know who was the first writer to address this topic, but I'm confident in saying that the most memorable treatment of this issue was tackled by Dante Alighieri in "Inferno."  

Dante provided one way in which Hell could provide varying degrees of eternal torment to sinners.  Dante is not inspired, but Dante's imagination provides a fairly simple way in which God can punishment sinners eternally without punishing sinners identically. 



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