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work_szq6qjctjrdrlfhph7b47uenga	Thomas Talbott	Punishment, Forgiveness, and Divine Justice	1993	27	.pdf	application/pdf	9694	402	61	justice requires retribution for sin, he was quite prepared to punish sin— in hell, for example— sin and to permit his loved ones to escape the terrible punishment they deserved on account of I am here calling "the Augustinian picture of God": the idea that mercy and justice are distinct punishment they deserve.3 So the rest are objects of God's justice, but not his mercy, and that is possible only if justice and mercy are distinct attributes of God. Accordingly, though Augustine deserve to suffer everlastingly in return, then a loving God would never permit it in the first place; retributivist theory is that we are neither responsible nor justly punished for the sins of another; repentant sinners actually deserve God's forgiveness? sinners or to save them from their sin; as the Augustinians see it, this makes God's forgiveness a According to our alternative picture, however, God forgives sin for this 	./cache/work_szq6qjctjrdrlfhph7b47uenga.pdf	./txt/work_szq6qjctjrdrlfhph7b47uenga.txt