sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
No, but that's where the popularized representation of Satan comes from.
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Why Create Hell if You Know Someone Might be Going to it?
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One4Truth
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I agree Sunstone...esp. in light of what he told the first man as to the consequences of disobediance: 'from dust you are and to the dust you will return'. If God told him that and had something altogther different in mind...everlasting conscious torment, that would indeed say alot (but untrue) about our Creator.
Interesting take on it. Thanks!
Sure. They are the cyber equivalent of applause. You give them to people for posts you want to applaud or praise.
I would have given you a frubal for your earlier post, except that I've reached my quota for the day. You can only give out a few each day -- I forget exactly how many.
Why would humans invent any deity like that?
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Because the deity is a sadistic butthole.
That the deity has the morals of a sadistic butthole.
That the deity has the capacity for malice of a sadistic butthole.
Of course, this is all moot, as the creation of a sadistic butthole deity is nothing more than the result of deity creators who are masochistic buttholes.
McBell
Unbound
Better control of the masses.
"If you do not do as I claim GOD says, you will burn in hell for all of forever!!"
I don't think the story is about disobedience at all. The A & E story is about learning what is left and right, up and down, in and out, birth & death. The same way parents teach their children today. The returning to dust is knowledge, not some threat from God.
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I don't know--why do people put themselves through hell?
Why you ask
Well then don't harmonize them. This isn't a class room where people are graded for their answers or some test from any God. It's a rap session forum that allows opinions to be expressed.
One4Truth
New Member
Your answer to the question allows to know where I might best spend my time in discussing gods word. So I will not bother you any further. Opinions are just that...opinions.....but when asking questions and disucssing the bible, opinions are the very thing one should stay clear of.
I.S.L.A.M617
Illuminatus
Interpretation of what the Bible says is nothing but a discussion of opinion, which is the reason there are so many Christian denominations.
An eternal hell is, essentially by definition, the most sadistic thing possible. It's the optimum point of malevolence, if one were trying to optimize such a thing.
To me, it says more about the morals and capacity of malice for people to have proposed this sort of deity and to support it, rather than saying anything about an actual deity.
To me, it says more about the morals and capacity of malice for people to have proposed this sort of deity and to support it, rather than saying anything about an actual deity.