When coming at the atonement from a perspective of eternal conscious torment, how do you understand the reasoning behind the necessity of Christ's death as a payment, and why the damned's payment seems so different from what Christ did?
Im curious if we sometimes press this concept too hard: God actively creates every human being. So many of the intellectual struggles with Gods sovereignty and human free will (or lack of free will) seem to be based on the concept that God is choosing to create every human being, one by one, knowing many will ultimately be condemned.