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04/02/2006 17:45:24
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Politics
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Title:
Miscellaneous
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01091111
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>Here is what I believe. I beleive God elects/chooses those who will believe (this is sure to start another long thread.) There are many issues in that one statement - to get to your question, I'll skip all that for now. If God has elected the infant/disabled person, then that person will spend eternity with Him. If not, that person will spend eternity in Hell.

Some sort of roulette, then.

Seriously, I think there is - or should be, at least - a principle in justice, that a punishment should be proportional to the crime. It isn't fair to punish someone who steals a few loafs of bread out of hunger, to 10 years of slave labor (like, rowing boats). This was done at some times, for lack of workers. Some punishment might be considered, but in this example, the punishment is way out of proportion with the crime.

By the same token, condemning someone to an eternity in hell is simply unfair, for the same reason. Quite obviously, this sort of punishment is out of proportion with any crime.

I am quite sure that we will receive some sort of punishment in the afterlife, for our misdeeds on Earth. But an eternity in hell? Impossible.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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