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Comment by m1n1 | Hacker News Reader

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Yes, it is nonsensical and irrational as long as God is viewed as _just another x_.

But it makes sense if one does two things:

1. hold all the rest of existence to be as the light dust of the balance in worth compared to God

2. see what other parts of the Bible say about the troublesome passage in question.

> ... people thousands of generations removed who have no responsibility ...

If you grew up with this stuff, then you already know:

- even without Adam's representation, each of us has already committed the same error of thinking we know better than God, or holding something else as worth more to us than God

- rejecting the idea that someone could represent you before God would include rejecting the offer that Jesus could represent you and take your sentence and allow God to see you with Jesus' record.

> Jesus could represent you and take your sentence

From what sentence? Hell isn't part of the old testament and was borrowed from other religions or later inventions after the torah, it was Sheol.

The sentence of having a worm that never dies and being in a fire that is never quenched, in a time period where there is a new heavens and a new earth as it says in the Old Testament, Isaiah's last chapter.

Apparently one can be a corpse and still sense this, for we are not merely flesh and there is no point to such worm or fire if they cannot be sensed.

    - Let me in so I can save you.
    - From what?
    - From what I'm gonna do to you if you don't let me in.

Godlike compassion, morality and consistency.

replied at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=m1n1#42664575

Old Testament, Isaiah 66:22 “As the __new heavens and the new earth__ that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure. 23 From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the Lord. 24 “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; __the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched__, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

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