Have We Lost Our Moral Sense?

Ro 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

God has placed in each of us a moral sense of what is right and what is wrong. Our moral sense tells us that to endlessly torment anyone is cruelty without purpose or benefit. It would be vindictive and hateful. Punishment is morally good only when it's designed to bring benefit to the afflicted. Anything else falls short of love. It is impossible to justify infinite punishment for any crime committed by a finite being, in a finite existence. This contradicts the very meaning of justify. For an accountants books to be justified, they must equal debits with credits. They must balance. Infinity can never be balanced with anything finite. Not even with everything finite combined. There can be no justice in infinite punishment inflicted for any amount of finite crimes. This would defy our moral sense if we still have one.



The advocates of endless evil evade the great moral issues. They will not face the question of the utter injustice of visiting finite guilt with an infinite penalty. They prefer to observe a discreet silence. They practically ignore the clear evidence of experts, which shows that moderate penalties are far more effective in repressing crime, and reforming the sinner, than are excessive punishments. They will not meet the arguments, which prove that the true conception of penalty is one, which, recognizing the need of retribution, yet lays the chief stress on its reformatory character.
They, in fact, substitute the "Great Taskmaster" for "Our Father," thereby obscuring, nay, almost denying, the fundamental fact of Christianity. They are strangely blind to the Vital question of the dualism virtually involved in teaching eternal evil. They do not seem aware that so to teach is to proclaim the defeat of Jesus Christ. They forget how indefensible is a dogma which, in fact, divides God into two Beings, which represents the unchanging One as changing from love here, to wrath hereafter. They have never explained when God Who "so loved the world" has ceased to love it, or how such a change is possible to Him, Who never can change. They attempt no answer when the moral degradation is pointed out, which a heaven involves, where we are to rejoice while our dear ones, or our fellowmen, for ever agonize. They are dumb, when asked to explain how sympathy can expire at the very gate of heaven; or how, if sympathy with the lost survive, the Blessed can know a moment's true joy. They do not explain how a process of degradation in hell can be endless: how moral rottenness can share the dignity of immortality: or how God can go on punishing His own children for ever, when all hope of amendment is past. They will not face the awful difficulty involved in God's free creation, in His own image, of myriads whom such a doom as hell to His certain knowledge awaits, They evade the difficulty, no less great, of conceiving a God, Who is Love, as watching to all eternity, unmoved and unloving, the agonies of His own children. They will not tell us why the savage is wrong, who mutilates his body to please his God; and the Christian is right, who mutilates his moral sense, his noblest part, by calling those acts good in God which he loathes in his fellowman.
This list, incomplete as it is, is sufficient to explain why those who would gladly, yet dare not, remain silent. God's honor is at stake: God's truth is at stake, when, in place of the Gospel, horrors are taught that especially wound that which is best within us, horrors that contradict alike man's conscience, primitive Christianity, and the express teaching of Holy Scripture. – Thomas Allin from “Christ Triumphant Universalism Asserted”

Look around you, I speak to thoughtful listeners. What is the fruit of the modern gospel? Where is the power of God today? Is it in the mega gatherings? Is it in the televangelists mansions? Is it in the multitudes of little gatherings dotting our land? Is it quenched because we are all preaching a false concept of God derived from tradition and from misleading translations of His life giving Word? How many preachers and pastors today are trapped in a pseudo spiritual existence for fear of losing their positions? These are not free to cross the tide of popular dogma. Unfortunately for them, the price is too high to even consider going there. So we perpetuate the myth of "eternal" hell, despite the insult it brings to the character of Jesus Christ and with no regard for the damage it brings to the coherency of the Word of God.