Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-k.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-k!tim From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Holy justice and the fires of hell... Message-ID: <20980031@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 04:36:00 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.20980031 Posted: Fri Dec 14 04:36:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 08:37:11 EST References: <1180@trwrba.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 13 Very good, John! Re the reference to Niven & Pournelle's "Inferno" having an escape hatch, an argument could be made for such a view from Christian scripture. I am thinking of the parable of the unforgiving debtor, Mat. 18:23-35, particularly verse 34. "And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt." -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.