HELL

[pocaracas]

Ah.. soft-hell...
It's good to see that people are moving away from the gospel of Peter and Dante's Comedy.

Here's what I think, and what has been explained to me.

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Since we were made to love and to be loved, existing completely devoid of that is a very miserable existence. Even if you are creating your own misery by refusing to humble yourself before it, you are still miserable. In this life you are able to distract yourself with money, or cars, or drugs, sex, etc... anything to fill the void. But when you don't have those things anymore, you're left alone with nothing but yourself and your feelings of hated. That's a whole other level of miserable, and that's Hell. 

And Boru, you hit the nail on the head. It is not meant to be about reward and punishment. That's why I always say that those Christians who act a certain way simply in order to be rewarded in Heaven, or in order to avoid Hell, are missing the whole point. God loves us and He wants us to be with Him because He loves us, not simply for "rewarding" purposes. We "go to" Hell not as a punishment from God, as the article says, but because we chose to be away from Him.

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See that bit I left out of the hide tags?
Some person told you this.
How did that person gain this information?

Ah, but you've answered this:

I don't think this is stuff people "decided" over night, but rather, it evolved with years of studying theology and gaining a deeper understanding.

What did these people study?
How did they get data to analyze? Specifically, concerning hell (or even heaven) where does information about it come from?
How would people like Dante come up with his very explicit and twisted view, when whatever evidence would be pointing to your teacher's fluffy version?

Should we invite neimenovic over to see what he was taught?