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Originally Posted by sebas4920
people want to believe in hell. many dig on the idea of a god who is gonna take revenge on all his flawed creations.
either that or they are too scared to not believe.
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All that pretty much sums it up right there; ppl simply want to believe and for many that's all they have (or so they think). I have always warned many of the bible-wavers I have encountered that the day will come when their own pastors will be telling them the same things I have been saying all the time.
And now, here we are....again
And the irony is that if they had bothered to investigate the origins of their beliefs in hell, they would have discovered that the Christian concept of hell was actually taken from the same pagan sources that their leaders condemn people for worshipping. Even more remarkable is that this concept of hell has to do partly with the need to keep women in a position of subservience because "hell" was once called "Hel" and was tied into the worship of the Divine Feminine
Originally Posted by Val
This is an interesting article and I actually do share his new beliefs. I have been questioning the concept of hell and damnation for a while now. There are billions of people who are not christians. Millions who probably don't know about God, or Jesus Christ. I don't believe that all the people are doomed to eternal damnation.
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True (but not according to the most fervent bible-waving type. In their worldview anyone who does not "know" Jesus is damned and if one took their theological arguments seriously, only the Christian knows or has a union with "god". To hell - pardon the pun - with the fact that the Christian ideas of the divine was copied from traditions older than theirs by thousands of years in some cases) |