If you die and go to hell and somebody goes back in time and kills your parents before you were born

[SlowwHand]

That's the part I don't know about. Whether He's sitting there hoping you make the right choices at each fork of the road, or lamenting the fact that He knows you'll make the wrong one.
He gave us a mind. He doesn't "rule" us. That's obvious.

[MrFun]

You do attack other posters.

I second that. Loin does go out of his way to attack other posters on here.

Hell, I do that sometimes.

[SlowwHand]

You attack the Hell out of me. So does Loin. Sometimes? SOMETIMES?!?

[notyoueither]

That's the part I don't know about. Whether He's sitting there hoping you make the right choices at each fork of the road, or lamenting the fact that He knows you'll make the wrong one.
He gave us a mind. He doesn't "rule" us. That's obvious.

He couldn't know what choices you will make, or the whole house of cards comes down. You are no more than a billiard ball, your course set in motion and your final pocket determined before anyone was born.

[SlowwHand]

I tend to agree. That's why I added that He gave us a mind. I think He sits there and hopes. It must be terribly stressful, since I consider God to be love.

[MrFun]

You attack the Hell out of me. So does Loin. Sometimes? SOMETIMES?!?

But, I still like you.

[SlowwHand]

You have a strange way of showing it.

[loinburger]

You do attack other posters.

Yes? Your point being? If you're attempting to conflate every conceivable type of online rudeness then I'm not buying it.

[loinburger]

"I am pretty much the smartest poster here and also Mac users and liberal arts majors are all idiots." "I am going to murder you and cover your burnt corpse in panda porn." "welp I guess I deserved that"

[Elok]

And I believe it is accepted by a good deal of Eastern Orthodox thinkers as well (in their mind, Hell corresponds to Catholic notions of Purgatory).

Well, I know universal salvation is accepted as possible but not known by Met. Kallistos Ware. Not sure about the others. To be honest, we don't talk about Hell all that much.

[Jon Miller]

Romans actually developed hell. The other early churches were otherwise.

Universalism was a fairly commonly held view among theologians in Early Christianity: In the first five or six centuries of Christianity, there were six known theological schools, of which four (Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea, and Edessa or Nisibis) were Universalist, one (Ephesus) accepted conditional immortality, and one (Carthage or Rome) taught the endless punishment of the lost.

JM

[Ben Kenobi]

I don't think He knows what choices will be made in advance.

I think he can see all possibilities and know some of them in advance, ie you will deny me three times! Then you have the prophecies fulfilled.

[Lorizael]

I don't think He knows what choices will be made in advance.

That sort of robs the 'own image' part of creation.

So he's not omniscient then?