How is it fair to provide INFINITE punishment in Hell for FINITE sins on earth?
Answer by John: First, the punishment will be proportional to how evil the person was during their life on earth. Hitler will get more punishment than your average non-axe-murderer atheist 😉 The punishment / negative consequences will be commensurate with the amount of pain/suffering the person caused (in other people’s lives) during their life on earth. This pain/suffering could be due to things the person maliciously did, or negligently did, or things they should have done (out of social responsibility) but chose not to do. We now have two alternatives (both of which are consistent the language used in the Christian Bible). Alternative #1: Hell is indeed eternal. Alternative #2: Hell is temporally finite (i.e., it lasts for a finite period of time, e.g., 1 year or 10 years or 1000 years). To be just (and not unfair) let us say that if a person-A caused a total of 10,000 units of pain and suffering in the lives of others (while in their life on earth) — then that person has to exper
