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Re: What If You Had Been Born Hilter???
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Originally Posted by Timmy
Yeah, I mean, who'd want Hitler to suffer an eternity of torment? That'd be too horrible, even for him.
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I don't want anyone to suffer an eternity of torment. For instance, I was saddened by Saddam's execution because of his eternal fate, even though I KNOW he deserved to die.
There is part of me that takes satisfaction in the punishment of evildoers, and another part that reminds me that Saul was a killer of Christians, yet God saw fit to use him for great things. I think that we should refrain from rejoicing at anyone's destruction, even when they obviously deserve it. When we catch ourselves doing so, even justifiably, then we ought to deliberately remind ourselves of our own fallibility and need for grace.
However, that common fallibility doesn't mean that God will not hold those accountable who neither repent of their sins nor turn to Him for salvation. I do believe in order to be saved from our wickedness, we must place our faith in God deliberately.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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