Christians: Is your god all-loving or does he deliver cruel & unusual punishment?

The Christian answer to the question:

"Is your god all-loving or does he deliver cruel & unusual punishment?"

Is basically "yes".

Your question represents a false dichotomy.

The Biblical God is perfect love, but He is also perfect justice. That means He cannot allow any transgression to go unanswered. Through the sacrifice of the perfect Christ, God was able to satisfy both perfect love and perfect justice.

God entered a covenant with Christ (His perfect Son) that He would receive Christ’s sacrifice as punishment (payment-in-full) for the sins of all those who belong to Christ. So to attain salvation from the just consequences of our own sin requires a faith response to the gospel of Christ (which is much easier than trying to earn righteousness through our actions).

"Punishing someone eternally for a thought crime of disbelief committed during a finite lifetime is excessive"

There are two problems with this statement;

1

What is "excessive" is subjective. We are conditioned from a young age to think "to err is human". And so many fail to consider the severity of committing treason and rebellion against our perfect Creator.

2

No one is technically punished for lack of faith. People are punished as a consequence of our own sin. Faith is merely the mechanism we use to avoid this punishment.

"or provide ample evidence of his existence"

The problem with evidence is that it has to be interpreted by human minds. As a Christian in my final year of a science degree, I am aware that every evidence in the universe can be "interpreted" to be consistent with the Biblical account of the universe. As my university is secular, I am also aware that there are other ways to interpret this same evidence. So the amount of evidence is not really the issue.

The Bible claims that God is explicitly evidenced throughout creation. It also says that God has place knowledge of Himself in every human heart; so that we are "without excuse" (Romans 1:18-21).

If God was all loving and forgiving then why did Jesus do what He did on the cross for then? If someone kills some one in a minute's time he gets caught and is convicted and is sentenced to 20 years in prison. He then spends 10,518,960 minutes in jail for a crime committed in one minute. Would you say that is fair ? Wait, that is what the law say is fit for that particular crime. Gods evidence is right out side your door ( earth ), and He can be found in Spirit In His Word of the bible.

He loves every sinner. He is holy and cannot abide with unrighteousness. He has provided righteousness through His only Son.

God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

John 3:17-19

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Just admit that your own words show that

-- You know there is a Hell

-- You know that if there is you are going there

-- -You know that the God who sends you there is forced to do so if right now you scorn the punishment.

I say a CULPABLE non-believer should go straight to Hell for all the harm that their laziness has done in the world, both positive in the immoral behavior it occassioned (as the Jew Hannah Arendt said of the Nazis) and negative for the good that went undone by them and hindered by them in others.

I know Atheist's think they know everything there is to know in terms of religion, and I'm not one to press my beliefs onto anyone else, believe whatever you want to believe in. But it does annoy me when Atheist spell God like 'god'. You shoot yourself in the foot, showing lack of understanding. I know I'll probably get thumbed down or whatever, don't care, but it's true. I can never understand why Atheist point the finger of ignorance when themselves don't take time to look into religion. 'It's a waste of time', is a poor excuse for something that has had such an impact on the world. Do your research.

God is all-loving and does NOT deliver cruel and unusual punishment. The true message of the Bible is not the wrath and vengeance of God, which were projected onto Him by the ancient Hebrews and others, but the submission and endurance of Christ on the Cross, the essence of love that never gives up, no matter what.

Too many words for me to study. Do you incredibly think of I care in case you embody God or no longer? i do no longer. i'm properly conscious that some artwork for God and a few artwork for the devil. I only ask your self whether you would be asserting that best comparable factor to God you recognize if and once you're incorrect? eternal torture is ones decision, do no longer blame God because of the fact you opt for to stay a stay with none ethical effects. in the international we've policies, regulations and policies and in case you injury them you pay the outcomes. no longer something hidden, all of us recognize the outcomes. God to set forth policies and all of us recognize the outcomes. No distinction. faith-all of us have faith no count if one needs to settle for and are conscious of it or no longer. faith is believing without evidence. you have faith that the next day you will awaken. you have faith that as quickly as you flow the line you is incredibly no longer hit by a vehicle. you have faith that as quickly as you consume at a eating place you will no longer get poisoned. you have faith that there is not any God regardless of no longer having any evidence for any of the failings I listed as faith. Pascal many make relaxing of regardless of the undeniable fact that this is logical. there is not any evidence and back, if we Christians are incorrect, so what we die and that's that yet as quickly as we are suited once you die what a cost you will pay. back, this is someone's decision no count if to have faith or no longer yet do no longer flow complaining once you opt for to overlook approximately and not have faith.

He is never described as "all-loving" in scripture. but He is a God of both perfect compassion and righteousness.

Deu 32:4 [He is] the Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he.

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Eze 33:11 Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?

that depends on who exactly the christian god is,what he taught,and who are his most trusted followers.the god i hear about ussually,is that unfair god you are talking about,but the one i know is kind,sweat,loving,generouse above measure,patient.its just that we sometimes want to be right so bad,that we put that above what we know is the truth.sometimes are anger and hatered is what you see from us,not god.

god bless

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