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Originally Posted by thirddan
If you were the omnipotent and omniscient creator of the universe...
-would you have created a heaven and a hell?
-What would they be like?
-Would they be eternal or would it be possible to go from hell to heaven eventually?
-What would the criteria for entry to either place be?
I guess I'll take a stab at this. You're missing an essential question though - "If you were the creator of the universe, would you give people souls (in this case, defining the soul as a piece of being that persists after death of the body)?
If you did, what do you then do with the souls?
But, let's see.
Say I'm God. Then I make a place that's perfect. Totally, pristinely, for-all-time perfect.
Then, I put some humans down somewhere else. Somewhere I've made perfect, but then the humans screw it all up.
Then, they die. Think I'm letting them into
my perfect place, when I gave them their own perfect place and they messed it up?
Hell (literally) no. No way I'm damaging my perfect dwelling for all time.
So that's my answer: If you want to hang out in the perfect place, be perfect, or gtfo.