God/YHWH/Allah is completely glorious, beautiful, righteous, just, fair & loving in all His ways - i think that every true Jew, Muslim & Christian will agree to this.
while in the process of learning from true Jews & Muslims, and seeing (almost to my surprise) the undivided devotion to God, their love for their respective laws they live by and piercing through all the propaganda, some veils were removed from before my eyes.
then, a thought came to me, which helped me to see things in their proper perspectives. and cover much theology in all monotheistic religions. please don't believe anything i say, before God will either confirm or reject it in your heart & mind. in my recent reading of the Qur'an, i see that there sure is a great deal about an eternal burning hell, but it also tells us to use our God-given common sense. 'hell' will be a future subject, and surely has become a satanic doctrine, bringing much division among many.
The Body.
i had to think of a body, representing humanity, and the unbelievers and those who hold to false doctrines representing growing cancers within the body. imagine being a cell that forms from a lump of cancer - how does that cell become part of the pure body? or imagine being a cell, growing up in a healthy part of the body, but chooses to act like one of the cancer cells, to act in disharmony and selfish desire - how should both be treated?
single cells who 'go astray' can be either expelled or repent; a full tumor at some time must be attacked, including old & young cells, and schrunk back until there is a mere remnant left (although i am not sure of the medical correctness of these two assumptions).
my point is: seeing it in this perspective, all the punishment for sin, damnation, the laws these cells live by and the ultimate original harmony the body (of humanity) should be in - all God's actions are done in love, righteousness & truth.
another aspect i see in this is about our idea of 'God being outside of time'. how else can He know how things will play out in the future? well, a wise doctor will know about the different stages of healing for any disease. he can in fact tell you how a sickness will be attacked and destroyed, and when. God, being all-knowing, can do the same for thousands of years in the future, applying to all of humanity, among who He is all-present. this is far beyond what we can grasp.
Yahweh wants us to know Him, and yet people try to tell us all our attempts are hopeless, because He is 'far from logic & reason'. but i want to encourage you by saying that He has provided us with a mind & heart, and we're not hopeless or incapable. it is His love, righteousness, the hope we have in Him, His definition of Life - those are things we have a very, very poor concept of. Our spirit is invited to be alive in Him, and this is nothing like the world that has been pulled over our eyes, in which we live.
so praise be to the Most High, the One God, the Creator and Sustainer of all creation!