The Unreasonableness of Eternal Torment

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 20, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 8.

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The Unreasonableness of Eternal Torment

It is not reasonable to believe that God would bring into existence a race of beings many of whom He knew would prove unworthy to exist, and in the face of this so constitute them that they were bound to live, that even Deity could not destroy them or take from them the boon of life. It is unreasonable to believe that God would say, as He does, that the wicked should be punished for the deeds done in the body (2 Cor. 5:10) in this life's brief span, and then inflict upon them misery to all eternity. It is not just; but God is just. It is not reasonable to believe that an all-wise, all-powerful, all-loving God would create a universe and then create conditions which would result in its forever being marred, stained, blighted, in any part by the curse of sin and the blasphemies of an ever-persistent hell.