The objections about eternal punishment

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Can the worldly deeds be eternal? A question and its answer

We will now discuss the objections regarding the eternal punishment for a group of sinners.

Matter is destructible.

Matter cannot be eternal so does not have the capacity to receive eternal rewards or punishments. In other words the eternal nature of punishment and reward does not conform to the destructibility of matter.

The answer to this question is not very complicated. There is nothing eternal excepting the entity of God and all others are finite. Well being is only connected with His pure existence but this does not prevent the temporal creations from becoming eternal because of something else. God may bestow eternal life on them and recreate them when they decay. The possible existence has no contradictions with the imperative one. (Reflect)

Just as God helps the Paradise and Hell and gives them remain so the bodies of those rewarded and the sinners are subjected to the same law. They too may remain eternally by the help of God to get their eternal rewards and punishments. Death and destruction will occur when there is no outside help and there is no re-creation.

 

Can the worldly deeds be eternal? A question and its answer
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