WILL GOD BE HAPPY IF YOU ARE IN HELL?
Christian doctrine - if you die rejecting God you will never get a second chance
but will be in Hell forever. God will raise your body to be tormented.
Handbook of Christian Apologetics Says
The Handbook says (page 271) that it is foolish to wonder how God and the saints
can be happy when people are suffering in Hell forever because this happiness
happens so it can be done. God is happy and the saints are happy despite the
sufferers in Hell.
Reason replies:
The "despite" shows that the happiness is manufactured and not real.
The answer on page 271 is a cop out. It is a despicable cop-out as well because
it is like saying to somebody, “I am going to extract a tooth from you now
without an anaesthetic and you will still be happy despite the agony”. It is not
an answer to say that the impossible is possible because it happens. If the
happiness of heaven disproves Hell these men are refusing to admit it and see
it. It is like saying it is a sin to provide drunk men with drink and that
somehow it was not a sin for Jesus to have done this at Cana for it happened
therefore it is possible. The copout answer is callous when one considers how
serious hell is. The doctrine is evil for it forces us into this evil and
vindictive copout. It is evil to believe in Christian doctrine.
The handbook says that happiness is not a feeling but is the state of being well
permanently. So it follows that the more you are loved the happier you are even
if that love does you no obvious good. The existence of the damned who hate the
saints then is opposition to their happiness and welfare. If they are happy
about that then it is absurd to say they are really happy.
Christianity says that you are here to obey God and not to be happy. If you are
happy then good but it is not why you are here. It points out that if there is a
choice between happiness and obedience then choose obedience. So why do we care
if Heaven is happy or not? How can we be sure?
At least they admit God does not really care.
