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    If the above is true [humans make other people unhappy fo... — Carmelics
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    If the above is true [humans make other people unhappy for long periods of time], it does not justify God making someone totally unhappy forever

    Eternal Conscious Torment
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    • 1.Finite wrongs should receive proportionate finite punishments; infinite punishment is categorically disproportionate to any human act.
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    • 2.If God is maximally good, He would not employ punitive methods more cruel than those He condemns in human societies.
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    • 3.Eternal torment serves no rehabilitative purpose, making it purely retributive and inconsistent with divine mercy.
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    • 1.Rejecting infinite divine authority is itself an infinite offense against an infinitely worthy being, justifying infinite consequences.
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    • 2.God's moral standards transcend human moral intuitions; our proportionality judgments may reflect limited perspective, not objective truth.
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    • 3.Hell may serve purposes beyond punishment—testing genuine freedom, manifesting divine justice, or maintaining moral order in creation.
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