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It is commonly maintained that God cannot love sinners and at the same time intend to punish them. It is also maintained these days that a parent cannot correct a child, and to do so constitutes abuse.
Nonsense. Correction of a child is never considered abuse.
Violence or cruelty towards a child is considered abuse.
Would you consider eternal damnation in a lake of fire to to have much
corrective value, since once the sinner is there, they have no hope of ever getting out to demonstrate that they have learned from the "correction"?
What you are describing is punishment, not correction or teaching.
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Both of these claims are false. Love requires a parent to do what's best for the child.
When is it ever "best" for a child to be eternally, cruelly punished with no hope of being able to demonstrate doing better in the future? Sounds more like a sick, dysfunctional relationship than that of a loving, instructive parent.
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