Everlasting Love

To a little child, getting a time out for doing something that would endanger him, when he was not supposed to be doing it, may seem to him like an everlasting punishment. But from the loving parent's perspective, this nurturing discipline protects the child and helps him learn and grow into behavior which will keep him safe and sound.

And, so it is in the subject of our Bible lesson sermon which comes up twice a year – Everlasting Punishment – it's about the tender mercies that our Father-Mother God continually shows us. Only nurturing love is given by our tender divine Parent. What may seem to us like a punishment only appears that way from a sometimes childish self-will that rebels at doing the right thing. The suffering we may seem to incur is not really from God but due to the limited perspective of a seeming mortal existence. Each child is always loved and cherished by our Father-Mother God!

The discoverer and founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:

Whosoever believeth that wrath is righteous or that divinity is appeased by human suffering, does not understand God.

... The atonement is a hard problem in theology, but its scientific explanation is, that suffering is an error of sinful sense which Truth destroys, and that eventually both sin and suffering will fall at the feet of everlasting Love.
(From Science and Health, pages 22 and 23)