APOLOGY FOR SOCRATES – Johann August Eberhard
“Punishment being an evil, cannot be employed by a good being, unless for ends whose goodness is greater than the evils suffered, and which could not be obtained without inflicting them. God punishes not for the common good only, but also for the reformation of the sufferer; which being accomplished, punishment has no further use. It was designed to influence the love and practice of virtue; and when these are produced, it must give place to the happy consequences of amendment. Punishment therefore, being a benefit even to the sufferer, when properly viewed by him, must produce emotions of love and gratitude.”
AN APOLOGY FOR THE TRADITIONAL CHURCH – Gary Amirault
The “Good News” of the traditional church is really not very good at all because it is based upon a vindictive god filled with all manners of punishments, many of eternal nature. The VERY Good News is in due time, all mankind will be saved through the gift of Jesus Christ, Savior of the world. Punishment will cease! God is love. Love NEVER fails, not once, not even for Judas Iscariot.
