However, the spirits would be judged based on their accomplished and on how they had lived their lives. Lives of sin would have obviously been punished with eternal damnation.
Certainly, this is not necessarily the message that will most likely convert the youth today to Christianity. In the 1st century AD, the idea of eternal damnation was strong enough to be imposed in any community. At the same time, one needs to consider that St. Paul created the Christian mythology basing many of his assertion on the human reactions, most notably on their fear. It is more difficult, nowadays, to promote the idea of fear of the afterlife in a period where technological advancements create more reasonable and rational answers.
In my opinion, the Christian message of love should be emphasized...
St. Paul's messages were adapted to the incipient Christianity and it is not clear whether all of these would function today. The emphasis should be put more on the moral benefits that a Christian would enjoy and on the positive aspects rather than on the punishments that a sinner incurs (and by a sinner, especially given the initial considerations on the fact that a sinner could be considered even someone who had not known or had not belonged to a certain law).
St. Paul's message is too radicalized for today's society and, from that perspective, it could lose some of the young adepts even before it gained them. As that message was adapted to St. Paul's times, the new message needs to be adapted to today's society.
