Intellectually ridiculous?
Is this not lunacy?
I don’t get why you think its ridiculous lunacy. The line
is gonna hafta be drawn somewhere and some people are gonna be closer to the line, on either side, than others. So what? What’s the big deal?
The alternative, salvation by faith alone, seems more ridiculous and lunatic to me.
we might suppose that the very last occupant to earn Hell may have looked at a woman with lust in his heart for a total of only 0.1 second more than the person who just scrapes into Heaven
I’d say that the line is not that fine. I think that an additional 0.1 sec of lust is negligible compared to the whole picture, and would have no affect on your salvation. This just moves the goalposts, but I wanted to raise the point that salvation by works is not that finely tuned IMO. I think the very last occupant to earn Hell and the person who just scrapes into Heaven would have differences that are more noticeable than 0.1 sec of lust. How different I haven’t really thought of yet,
Another thing I think of is that maybe Heaven and Hell are more of an analogue quality, as opposed to the digitized either/or scenario you’ve described. Perhaps the better your works are, the better your heavenly experience will be and the last occupant of hell doesn’t have it as bad as the hitlers do (also the one who scrapes into heaven wouldn’t have it as good as the mother teresas do). This way, the difference of 0.1 sec of lust wouldn’t be noticable in the context of how good, or bad, those afterlife’s would be.
Whadaya think?
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