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Rev

Interesting answer but I have to say what do we interpret as ending our life? Because if we are already near god/in hell, we have already died. And we have been transferred here. If god again killed us, would we transfer somewhere else? Or would we just be resurrected for eternal punishment. The thing I am trying to convey is that through conservation of mass destruction would be impossible. You can say god transcends all logic and humanity but the thought of real destruction is horrifying as in what comes after is uncertain...
– The_AH
Commented Jul 3 at 8:36
...All in all, for example, if god keeps killing us over and over again, would that be good or bad? Technically our existence is being repeatedly wiped but we are also being put into existence again. So that would be both non-existence and existence, which is still not preferable to simple existence. Another thing to note is that evil is subjective. Anyways what would be your reaction to the argument I have presented as a believer of existence = good?
– The_AH
Commented Jul 3 at 8:40
@The_AH well, there is end of life (on Earth) and end of existence (aka Soul) and that can also be same thing (if there is no Soul). If my Soul would preserve between each time I die that is reincarnation. Also I am not sure how would previous lives have any impact in case of this evil troll god - during life we would remember only good and evil in our current earthly life (and in between remember everything?). If my Soul would not preserve (or there is no Soul) after death, than I would not consider new me as me, but someone else - I would live earthly life once and then non-exist for ever.
– Piro
Commented Jul 3 at 9:02
I suppose we're getting too off-topic but we get to the problem of that wouldn't be you, what would happen to the old you, that would still be destroyed, an entirely new reincarnation would be born but old you would still be killed or destroyed, and we get back to conservation of mass. The only logical way that an evil god can repeatedly kill is if we define killing as the transformation of your atoms all to nothing, but what is destruction if not the transformation of atoms to nothing? So we could say destruction is possible since we are just transforming. But the soul is not measured..
– The_AH
Commented Jul 3 at 9:17
..in scientific or physical terms but is rather a broad concept not pertaining at all to any forms of logic. And so a soul cannot realistically be destroyed as we don't even know it's properties. This would mean however there would be still a soul to experience the destruction, which itself would be absolutely horrifying and I am not sure how this can be phrased as anyway except evil.
– The_AH
Commented Jul 3 at 9:19

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