On Psalm 109 and Faith

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Originally Posted by Morrigoon

If you take "hell" to mean the complete absence of God, and if you accept hell as the punishment for sin, then in order for Jesus to take on the sins of the world, he had to take on their punishment too, which is the absence of God within him. Only then could he truly "suffer" for their sins, thus paying their spiritual debt so that everyone thereafter could be saved from hell themselves by accepting his sacrifice.

Or something.

Those are very weighty "ifs" in your premise.

Accepting them, however, it seems a little unfair that Jesus only had to endure this punishment for about a day and a half, and yet others get an eternity of it.

Mind you, there are sects that believe that Christ is in some sense, right now, in hell undergoing torment on our behalf, at this very moment, and will be until the final judgement. This is not a widespread belief, but it does have some very serious adherents.