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> Even better, seek the creator of the universe and the source of love. Is it the same non-contigent source of love that loves us so much that created hell and

by unmole 8y ago

> Even better, seek the creator of the universe and the source of love. Is it the same non-contigent source of love that loves us so much that created hell and just in case we don’t love it back? > testimony of the generations of good people who claim to know this cause. The same good people who also claimed that we would burn for all eternity if we didn't nod along to their delusions of grandeur?

McWobbleston 8y ago
That's one interpretation. I'm more particular to the interpretation that hell is a fire that destroys a soul (true death, not eternal torture) which some scriptures suggest, or that hell is an afterlife with the creators love.
cicero 8y ago
The dull man cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this: that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever ... The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord, they flourish in the courts of our God. (Psalm 92:6-7, 12-13) This world is full of injustice, but the message of Christianity is that injustice is temporary and justice is eternal. Every man has a choice between eternal life and eternal death. God wants life for everyone - that is why he gave each of us life. He gave us the ability to love, but we also have the freedom to hate. Heaven is eternal love; hell is eternal hate. You get to choose the path you want to take.
- unmole 8y ago
  > the message of Christianity is that injustice is temporary and justice is eternal The message of Christianity is that having faith in the blood sacrifice and reanimation of a savior figure is enough to receive pardon for all of one's inequities. I don't see what justice has to do with anything to do with it.
  - cicero 8y ago
    Maybe you should learn some serious theology rather than a caricature and then you would see what justice has to do with it. I would suggest St. Augustine or St. Thomas Aquinas.

by unmole 8y ago

McWobbleston 8y ago

That's one interpretation. I'm more particular to the interpretation that hell is a fire that destroys a soul (true death, not eternal torture) which some scriptures suggest, or that hell is an afterlife with the creators love.

cicero 8y ago

The dull man cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this: that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever ... The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord, they flourish in the courts of our God. (Psalm 92:6-7, 12-13) This world is full of injustice, but the message of Christianity is that injustice is temporary and justice is eternal. Every man has a choice between eternal life and eternal death. God wants life for everyone - that is why he gave each of us life. He gave us the ability to love, but we also have the freedom to hate. Heaven is eternal love; hell is eternal hate. You get to choose the path you want to take.

unmole 8y ago
> the message of Christianity is that injustice is temporary and justice is eternal The message of Christianity is that having faith in the blood sacrifice and reanimation of a savior figure is enough to receive pardon for all of one's inequities. I don't see what justice has to do with anything to do with it.
- cicero 8y ago
  Maybe you should learn some serious theology rather than a caricature and then you would see what justice has to do with it. I would suggest St. Augustine or St. Thomas Aquinas.