Another issue with Heaven and Hell is that they render morality redundant, for:
If I obey God out of desire for reward (Heaven) then I am not loving, merely mercenary.
If I obey God out of fear of punishment (Hell) then I am not loving, merely craven.
If I obey God by virtue of simply following orders (of the leader) then I have abdicated moral responsibility to another (The Nuremberg Defence).
The simplest Christian definition of God congruent with Jesus' teaching comes from 1 John 4.8 - 'God is love'. The immediate context is this: 'Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.'
On a more cynical note it can be argued that the problems of reward, and punishment is not with believing for we all believe something, or another when pronouncing our opinions on the infinite. The problem here is with knowing. Here lies the real discussion. To know, and know not.
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