Then comes the statement that, “God hates sin … because He understands how terrible the consequences are” – a statement that somehow forgets the fact that if God truly hates the “terrible (and flagrantly unjust, if not downright cruel) consequences” of sin so much, then He – as the all-powerful Creator of the entire Universe – could simply change those consequences!  Indeed, this is something that God actually does in “The Apocalypse of Peter” (a tome considered to be valid Scripture for several hundred years after Jesus’ death, even though some men in the Catholic Church threw it out of the Bible thereafter).

 

“My Father will give unto them all the life, the glory, and the Kingdom that passeth not away … It is because of them that have believed in me that I am come.  It is also because of them that have believed in me, that, at their word, I shall have pity on all men … Behold now what shall come upon them in the last days, when the day of God and the day of the decision of the judgment of God cometh.  From the east unto the west shall all the children of men be gathered together before my Father that liveth forever.  And He shall command Hell to open its bars of adamant and give up all that is therein.” ~ The Apocalypse of Peter (Coptic version)

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