When Dr. Mashburn sent out the questions that we were going to go over in the last class, the one my eyes first gravitated to was the question asking what life and morals would be like if there was no Heaven or Hell. The most likely reason for this is because we had just gone over Plato's Ring of Gyges in Philosophy, and that caused my mind to have already been thinking along these lines. This story talks about whether justice or injustice better serves the human life if one can escape the result of punishment. I related them this question because in a world without Heaven or Hell, there would be no eternity. This means no eternal punishment or paradise. If one did not have to concern himself or herself with a life after death, of course they would do whatever they could to improve their current position even if it were wrong. The Ring of Gyges discusses the kind of life a just man would live and how it would be inferior to the life of an unjust man. This whole concept is a very dangerous way to think because it can cause people to wish that they had no eternity. If there were no Heaven or Hell, people could live they way they want and do exactly what they choose without fearing eternal punishment, and people will always do what they want to do when they can.
Did anyone else find themselves beginning to drift into thinking about all they would do if they didn't have to fear eternity? I know that I definitely did.
P.S. I commented on Mackenzie Jackson's and Madison Flower's posts.
Did anyone else find themselves beginning to drift into thinking about all they would do if they didn't have to fear eternity? I know that I definitely did.
P.S. I commented on Mackenzie Jackson's and Madison Flower's posts.
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