>>>>I think that is horrendous that people were burned, tortured and killed - because of their beliefs.
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>>>>However, I know that each one of them either rejected Christ or believed in Him. That choice - and that choice alone is what determines their eternal home. This is something I am 100% comfortable with.
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>>>>You realize, of course, that this is totally inconsistent.
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>>>>On the one hand, you state it's horrendous that people were killed because of their beliefs.
>>>>Yet on the other hand, you express 100% comfort that these same people who were so brutally tortured will also burn in hell forever...because of their beliefs.
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>>>>What a 1-2 punch...the monsters of the physical world and then the monsters of the spiritual world.
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>>>>Kevin
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>>>It's really very simple. In the first instance, somone else was the one determining their physical fate - that's bad. In the second instance, they are either enjoying or detesting the future they have chosen for themselves - that's good. What's wrong with that?
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>>Wait a second. How can the first instance be bad. Doesn't it bring glory to God as does everything that happens? I thought we'd been around that already.
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>Ah, so you're catching on...yes you're right. The first instance is ultimately good are things. I meant that it was an unpleasant thing that God uses for His glory.

I hate to keep going around this, but from my view, yes, bad and unpleasant - even monstrous, but from your view, if it brings glory to God, how can you see it even as a mild unpleasantness? Shouldn't everything, no matter how unpleasant it might seem to the unbelievers among us, appear to you as a joyous event? You keep using words like 'bad', 'unpleasant' etc. Why?