The basic reason why moderns disbelieve in hell is because they really disbelieve in freedom and responsibility. To believe in hell is to assert that the consequences of good and bad acts are not indifferent.
Consequences Quotes
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.
First you guess. Don’t laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn’t matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your […]
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
He (the Advocate General) is quite right when he says that as a man of responsibility, a man having received a fair share of education, having had a fair share of experience of this world, I should have known the consequences of every one of my acts… Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. […]
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. (Hosea 8:7)
There are no rewards or punishments – only consequences.
