God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.
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