From http://cruciality.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/who-said-it-4/
Who said it?
It's been around six weeks since our last 'Who said it?' competition, so probably time for another round (not that we need an excuse or anything). Here's one from the archives:
'Can it be just that God should bring beings into the world unprotected by an infinite armour of foresight against the infinite chances and temptations to wrong, and yet hold them liable to infinite punishment when they had gone wrong? … Punish a man for his sin, that is just; punish him for ages (if in that other world you can reckon time), that may be just; but make no end of punishing him for that sin, reduce him from a man to a devil and keep him there, let him become for ever vile, mainly because he was ignorant to start with, that is not just … Preach the eternal, unappeasable wrath of God upon lost souls and you offer men a devil to worship'.
So, who said it?
The answer is PT Forsyth.
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