God’s Morality of Punishment
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Hello Rabbi,
I wanted to ask, is the idea that God, blessed be He, created the universe with free will and grace, so that if they transgress His commandments, He will punish them, not a moral problem, since He knows in advance that there will be such and such people who will enter the basement of Hell?
So let’s assume that he will give the best people more pay (assuming that they can only receive it by free choice through doing TOM and MAT), but why punish the wicked in hell after they die? What’s the point of that?
I thought, for example, that if that evil person were a person like Hitler, then most of us would agree that he should be punished, but if that’s the case, what is the moral and what is the commandment (pressing the switch on Shabbat)? After all, the normative validity of both is equal?
And it still seems strange what the point is in punishing a person who ate wormy lettuce or did not listen to the commandments of God, blessed be He.
I didn’t understand the discussion about morality and commandments. If God created us, He has the right to demand from us requirements, morality, or commandments. Especially if you accept that transgressions are harmful in some sense to the world or to man.
Nowhere does it say that God created man with free will. In fact, this concept of free will was invented by those who are offended by the thought that they are subject to the laws of nature.
It is God who determines what to do, not morality. Moral feelings must be overcome.
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