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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If in fact there is a god who condemns people to
everlasting fire then I could never morally support such a vicious and cruel being. My conscious
would dictate that I go to hell rather than support such a contemptible being. |
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Yeah, and isn't it nice to drive people toward God's glowing love and peace by telling them they'll
be disemboweled and burned and tortured for all eternity unless they obey what they're told to do.
Can you feel the love? I mean if a parent told their kid - "look I'll be a great parent and
generous and loving as long as you obey me, but if you step out of line I'm going to chain you in
the basement and cut you over and over till you bleed. Now run along and be a good well adjusted
kid." It's sadistic. It's the antithesis of what the message of God is supposed to be. |
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For those who stray from the path of what is right it is a terrifying concept. It should be enough
to bring people to God, for some reason it doesn't. It is not a concept devised by man, it is one in
place for all those who don't repent. When the vast majority face judgement it is where they will be
sent for eternity for their defiance of God. |
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Some would say the concept is thus:
Assuming a perfect, eternal God from which all our reasoning comes from and the prospect of living
with that God in eternal perfect, one might want to consider the opposite.
"Living" apart from eternal without the illusion of this temporal. In other words, one getting what
one demands....
The reality of the temporal. Only thing is, the only thing that makes the temporal "real" is the
person. So, in "the end", one is left with what one demands....reality being nothing but ones self.
Ones self. Nothing else. Simply being aware that one exists. Nothing else.
If this was the case, the literal concept of a "burning lake of fire" would probably be an
improvement. At least there would be something other than being aware of self. Something added to
the reality.
If one was to consider the possibility that the "lake of fire" is a hint of truly being separated
from all reality, one might consider the isolated reality of being alone with self to be even worse. |
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I agree. The idea of hell was created to keep people in line. Scare tatic. We can all see that
it has worked real well. LOL |
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It is a very cruel concept. |
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In a sense, it would be better for one billion people to die terrible excruciating deaths and not go
to hell, than one person to die and be sent to hell. That one person theoretically would suffer more
pain than all of those who would die. What a concept. |
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Hell is to spend eternity cut off from God. God gave us free will. We do not have to spend
eternity in Hell. We all have a choice. Also, God does not condemn us to Hell. The fact that we
have free will and a choice means that, it is up to us where we spend eternity. |
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If one looks at it metaphorically Life is Hell when straying from the path. If you are wise enough
to know the difference.;-/) |
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Well I am not disagreeing that it is scary and appalling but who is to say it is just a concept,
Hell was talked about since the beginning of time, in documents and so forth, pictures on walls in
caves, in Greek Mythology, and Christian Theology, We are not talking about kids who create some
story in class, if there was indeed no such place then why does it sound so cruel and scary, it
was meant to be for a reason, rather you believe in Satan or not is another story but even he fears
the day he faces it as a judgement, and that is what hell is judgement for not choosing right over
wrong and Jesus over the world, that to me is even more scary than your conception of hell. |
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03 Feb 2009 06:33
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