True Story About a Bully - by Jack D.

Growing up in a middle class urban neighborhood in Norwalk, California I saw my fair share of bullies. Walking to school, one day when I was in kindergarten a sixth grade boy came up to me on his bike and said, “You’re chose!” He didn’t seem to be friendly, and I was confused. Others explained to me that he had chosen me to fight. All day long, I had the encounter playing in my head and all day I wondered what might become of the threat. Well I had barely gotten off school property when the bully found me again, and he wanted to fight. To be honest, I was very ashamed to be afraid of him, but I was afraid and I certainly didn’t want to try and fight him when I knew I couldn’t prevail. The emotions of it were too much and as he began hitting me, I began crying and tried to run away. Apparently this was enough for the sixth grader. All he apparently wanted was to establish his superiority. Having established it, he was decent enough to leave me alone and not torment me anymore.
Some people entertain the idea that God is going to bring his enemies in subjection by his superior power and might. That He will make his enemies bow their knee and profess Jesus to be Lord and then after coercing this expression of submission from them he will continue to cast them into the most horrid torment. Even after they are recorded as saying, "AND EVERY CREATURE WHICH IS IN HEAVEN, AND ON THE EARTH, AND UNDER THE EARTH, AND SUCH AS ARE IN THE SEA, AND ALL THAT ARE IN THEM, HEARD I SAYING BLESSING AND HONOUR, AND GLORY, AND POWER, BE UNTO HIM THAT SITS ON THE THRONE... Rev. 5:13. Regardless of their pleas for mercy, regardless of their change of attitude, regardless of the genuineness of of their submission, they then get brutally submerged in the most horrid agonies which are at this time beyond our comprehension. Why? Where is God’s love? My bully relented when I offered no resistance, but God will cast these who are infinitely weaker than Him into eternal horror, pain and torment right after they praise Him and submit to Him?
When I voice my opinion of the wrongness of such a false scenario, I am told, “You are judging God!” “You can’t judge God.”
1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things…
1Th 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I am NOT judging God when I point out the inconsistencies of the ideas put forth regarding “eternal” damnation. I AM judging whether or not this dogma is good. As I compare it with Scripture, it raises hundreds of apparent contradictions. As I compare it with Greek usage, it fails to faithfully express the ideas originally presented. As I compare it with early church history, it fails to match up with the overwhelming statements of the early church fathers. As I compare it with the biblical expression of the character of Christ and of God, it makes a mockery of Jesus own claims regarding his mission. It contradicts the love of God, the mercy of God, the unchangeableness of God and the just judgment of God. If the concept of eternal is removed from the judgments of God, then all these apparent contradictions go away. Hmmm.