THE MORAL PROBLEM
Bertrand made a bold judgement,
“There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character,
and that is that He believed in Hell.” Again, this is a moralistic reason, and
not a scientific reason.
Bertrand assumed that the supernatural place called Hell does not exist.
How would he know?
Hell, proper, is a spiritual location.
Being a spiritual place, it is in a higher dimension than the natural world. Spirit beings (angels, demons, God, Satan) can come and go into our lower dimensioned natural world. Russell does not really know , because he had not left his physical body, at least at the time he gave this lecture.
Bertrand then went on to say, “I do not myself feel that any person who
is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.”
Again this is a moral argument.
He then added, “That hell-fire punishment is a doctrine that put cruelty
into the world.”
This last statement can be historically examined.
The Soviet Union and Communist China did not believe in ‘hell-fire’.
Yet, they also have committed many cruelties.
Russell was not willing to admit that these cruelties actually spring from the
human heart, and not some doctrine, which he does not like.
Bertrand Russell errs again.
* We can ignore places like ‘Hell, Michigan, U.S.A.’.
** Scientists already acknowledge there are more dimensions
to our universe than what we know as Length, Width, Depth, and Time.
*** On the other hand, if Jesus really is God, as declared by the Bible, then he would know if Hell exists - because he made it.