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Perhaps tangential, but Jehovah’s Witnesses consider themselves Christain (the article refers to ‘modern Christains’ collectively as believing in hell, but I’m
by aetherspawn 8y ago
Perhaps tangential, but Jehovah’s Witnesses consider themselves Christain (the article refers to ‘modern Christains’ collectively as believing in hell, but I’m not sure that’s actually accurate; perhaps they meant Catholics? Do born-again or LTS believe in hell?) but don’t believe in hell because as the article also states, it isn’t mentioned in either the Hebrew or Greek scriptures.
The origin of hell is probably pagan.
- Breza 8y agoAs a Christian, I accept that God is impossibly complex. The Bible uses a lot of memes that were well known at the time to describe God. We run into trouble when people start to look at those memes as if they were meant literally.
- krapp 8y agoWhy do you believe they weren't meant literally?
- thedailymail 8y agoThe origins of Christianity include a large dose of paganism, if that means not directly derived from Abrahamic doctrine.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Perhaps tangential, but Jehovah’s Witnesses consider themselves Christain “Christian”; on the other hand, mainstream Christians don't consider Jehovah's Witnesses or LDS to be Christians, because (long before either of those existed), mainstream Christianity settled on a common boundary around the Nicene (or Nicene-Constantinopolitan, as the Orthodox refer to it) Creed. Even across the two Great Schisms, this has held across the main communities. > but don’t believe in hell because as the article also states, it isn’t mentioned in either the Hebrew or Greek scriptures. “Hell” is a name applied to a doctrine that those holding to it hold as an interpretation of several passages in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, primarily references to Gehenna and tartarō.