Hell and Judgement

Yeah we never get it right do we? They overdid the hellfire and damnation stuff - that was terrible. So then they had to compensate with the message of love. I hope we don't have to go back to the fear-mongering again. There has to be a way to preach a strong but loving message of hope.

Yes, Kiwi. Balance is needed.

Yawn and you are very ugly

Oh we see a censoring ugly boring

Oh we see this padraig is a censoring ugly boring lonely lunatic then. A ugly thing who only want to read nice comments by sycophants.

Hell does not exist, it is a tool used by religion to rule threw fear.

". All things have meaning. If we cannot love God we should fear Him. For the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. " The entire story "God" is contradictory, first he says he loves all of us and that we have free will. However if we do not use that free will to believe in him and follow his ways then we are evil and wrong.....and he punishes us. "God" if he truly exists is Evil in his own right, He bares the beliefs of a Natzi, believe or be destroyed.

"Wars and disasters are not simply accidents" Wars are human and nothing more.

Disasters, Simply because we can't explain some thing does not make it Supernatural. People long ago would think we are using magic now with everything we have and would assume it some unnatural force simply because they don't understand.

I evolved to have a thinking mind and I use it. We have a purpose, we don't know what that purpose is and I doubt that people years and years ago could understand what that purpose is.

I want to post a comment about this. My beliefs are hard to define, but I have studied many things. I do have to say though, I definitely do not believe in hellfire. At least, not as eternal torment for human beings. There are scriptures in Revelation that point to Satan and the beast being cast eternally into the lake of fire and sulfur. The same scriptures say that ALL others will be destroyed. It doesn't even exclude the demons from simple destruction. Not to mention the greek and hebrew words for hell, sheol, gehenna, hades, all translate literally into the common grave. If the bible is accurate than judgement for the wicked will be death. The scriptures say a man who is dead is conscious of nothing. I don't want to bash anyone's belief, but it is particularly frustrating to hear talk of hell. I believe it is a scare tactic. There is reason to love and know God, but being scared into it seems wrong. Where is the free will? Most depictions of hellfire originate with Dante's depiction. His play was titled the "Divine Comedy". It is a metaphoric book that illustrates the suffering we cause ourselves here. I just have a hard time believing that a creator who loves us, would put us here with every temptaion we could imagine, us being imperfect, give us a short life, and say that if we screw up we will forever burn. Then eternal life might sound ludacris, but that is for overcoming the odds. Repeatedly the bible illustrates that this is for the few.

That picture is EPIC!!