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Why Hell?
- Thread starter Sunstone
- Start date
capslockf9
Active Member
What good would the invention of a god be with out disciplinary or rewarding options.
Super Universe
Defender of God
Hmm, maybe the same reason you're trying to "save" all the religious folk from their beliefs?
I think they used it to scare people into believing. Either that or it is that perverse human nature to want you enemies to be tormented.
Nanda
Polyanna
I fail to see the connection between challenging people to think about their beliefs and threatening someone with eternal damnation if they fail to live up to a set standard.
That makes no sense.
I'm not in the salvation business. You're your own refuge. There is no other.
capslockf9
Active Member
Who would listen to a policeman that couldn't arrest you and/or put you in jail.
So they invent a god and give it some judicial options.
They didn't.
logician
Well-Known Member
To scare the bJesus out of people to make them believers in the literalist concept of Christianity.
BucephalusBB
ABACABB
... To have an opposite..
zulkarneyn
New Member
Cause hell is as real as you are..
trinity2359
Active Member
Sounds about right if you believe trying to promote the fire and brimstone version of Hell.
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
In what way can you compare hell to justice? maybe the justice systems of a long time ago, but not today.
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
I didn't equate hell with justice, I said that a longing for justice is probably what led to the idea of hell.
We hate seeing bad people get away with it. We want to believe that everyone gets what they deserve in the end. If that doesn't happen in the here and now, then shouldn't God mete out punishment when it's deserved? That's the line of thinking that I think led to the idea of hell.
Penguino, doesn't Hinduism believe in a sort of temporary hell, or am I misremembering?
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
It depends, our very orthodox scriptures might mention something, but Hinduism evolves and comes out with new thinking, right now, i believe there is no hell, hell and heaven is on earth.