How is eternity in hell a fair punishment for sin? | GotQuestions.org

Is hell fair? How can eternity in hell be fair for only a lifetime a sin? How is eternity in hell a fair punishment for sin and what does the bible say about hell and eternal punishment / Eternal Torment? In this video, Pastor Nelson with Bible Munch answers the question, “How is eternity in hell a fair punishment for sin?”.

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[OctavioMoss]

“God is an eternal and infinite being …as a result, all sin requires an eternally punishment, ...”. How did you jump to this conclusion?

[katica]

When children misbehave, I discipline them, but I would never think to punish them forever for it. This is in essence my struggle. So I don’t understand how we can sing of the goodness and compassion of God with the thought of this.

The wages of sin is death, not eternal life in conscious torment.

[alexanderthompson]

Is it fair that nobody on earth asked to be born… and because they were born without consent that they have to live by rules or suffer in hell for eternity?

[earlysda]

God said the sinner shall die. Satan said you shall not surely die. Most Christians strangely believe the Devil that you can sin and still live in misery forever in hell.
Let's start reading our Holy Bibles!

[zachio]

It's so creepy watching Christians talk about hell with a big smile on their face talking about human torture like a psychopath.

[dylancrampton]

The important question that no Christians seem to ask is: what is the point of punishment? Don't we punish people not so they experience misery for misery's sake but so that they may learn from their mistakes, repent their actions and come out of it a better person? If that's so, then isn't punishment that lasts for eternity entirely pointless?

[tomm]

Every Knee Will Bow and Every Tongue Will Confess that Jesus Christ is God Almighty Hallelujah God Bless ✌

[josephpe]

It baffles me how many people believe in this whole demonic doctrine about hell being eternal. I’m a Christian myself and I find something like that to be the absolute most evil act in all of eternity coming from a… all loving God? How can someone call themselves Christians but yet believe in that?

[quinceymars]

If God is love itself then his love doesn’t have limits which means his mercy would also be limitless. I wish all these “teachers “ would just stop trynna make God fit into their own understanding and just preach the word

[brettfaryniarz]

The wicked perish. They don't burn for eternity.

[nathanbellairs]

His mercy endures forever. Eternal torment in hell makes that verse a lie.

[ronjones]

You can never suffer an eternity in hell because an eternity will never be over.

[tomm]

"All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord." (Psalm 145:10a)

"I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for "the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breath of life that I made"." (Isaiah 57:16)

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end." (Lamentations 3:22)

[autumnshade]

Dear Jesus Christ, please have mercy on us all 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Cultsurvivor]

Being merciful and allowing people to burn for lives that werent even a century for over a trillion years directly contradicts with that supposed characteristic, not to mention hell/hades humans and death are cast into the lake of fire to be destroyed.

[IsaacNussbaum]

If God intends to horribly torture the lost forever, the Bible ought to say that somewhere. I wonder why it doesn't. (None of the Scriptures used to teach eternal conscious torment actually say ... _plainly say_ ... that.)

[davidreinker]

The problem with using the example of the rich man and Lazarus to argue for eternal torment is that the purpose of this story isn't meant to show that the wicked will suffer eternally in fire after they die. It's meant to be a warning to those who are still alive that we should help those in need and use what God has given us to help others, and turn away from greed, or suffer punishment. The imagery is Greek, which people would have been acquainted with. God doesn't warn of eternal torment, but of eternal destruction, or as John puts it in Revelation, the second death. Read John 11:25-26. Read about the examples Jesus offers regarding the weeds that are to be burned. The imagery is always one of complete destruction by fire. If the wicked are to be in eternal torment, it would require God to give them bodies that will live forever but suffer pain. But death is the opposite of life. Death is non-existence, which means not able to experience anything.

[IsaacNussbaum]

*"How is eternity in hell a fair punishment for sin?"* It isn't fair. That is why the Bible does not threaten unsaved people with the pagan notion of eternal conscious torment.

[bluesclues]

About the story of Lazarus, it is a PARABLE by Jesus Christ, it was made up, fictional, not real. It shows that all the things you have on earth are temporary, but in God you will have everlasting items and love.