It is a regular occurance in debates here at EvC that non-Christians quiz Christians on the reasons that God has for hell. The reasons often track back to this concept of God being holy - here's some recent quotes by Dr Sing:
{God} needed someone holy, as holy as himself to pay for you sins.
The price that God set for sin was holy blood
So holy is the God of the Bible that He will not tolerate even a single sin
What we have here is an "ultimate" conciousness that decides that it is "holy". It gives its newly created beings free-will, and some rules. A rule gets broken, and because this ultimate being has decided that it is "holy" and rule-breaking is something that cannot be tolerated, its entire creation will suffer. Not content with just wiping out his creation for this perceived slight against its own self-determined holiness, it consigns A&E and all of their descendents to ETERNAL SUFFERING... And this just because God hsa decided that it is holy, and cannot abide rule-breaking.
The fact is that God didn't suddenly discover itself holy - if it wants to take on such a mantle, then fair enough, but it is a choice. And it is this choice that leads to hell and eternal suffering.
Faith and Belief please...
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