"Hell and Vagueness" This is an article in Faith and Philosophy a journal for Christian philosophers. In it, Sider (the author of "Hell and Vagueness"), argues that God's arbitrarily sends people to hell. There is no standard criterion for why people spend an eternity in hell. This seems to be a prima facie simple case, b/c God's justice is not the same as ours. Is it safe for the Christian to argue that God can do what He wants since it's His creation? Sider points out that he is assuming that God's rationality is the same as human rationality and human justice is the same as God's justice. I also think that Sider's article is a variation of the problem of evil. The question in his article though is, can God be justified in sending a person to hell that has a minimal less amount of faith (or belief) than another person. For example, Bert has 5.000001 units of faith in Christ, whereas Ernie has 5.00001 units of faith. It just so happens that the amount of faith that Ernie has is the absolute minimum amout required to be in Christ, therefore Ernie goes to heaven. Whereas Bert is damned to hell, b/c he did not have enough faith. Sider argues that God is not justified in this vague separation between those w/ enough faith going to heaven, and those w/o enough faith going to hell. I am going to have to think about this more and revisit this problem, but I would probably respond w/ something as follows: All people deserve to go to hell and God rescues some of them through the process of "election" which eventually leads to salvation. Does God arbirtarily do this? The Bible claims that God has a plan for people before they ever existed so that seems to imply that He does not arbitrarily elect people, but now I think I am going down a whole different route than the one I intended.