RE: Who's Who in Hell?
January 27, 2017 at 11:23 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2017 at 11:27 pm by Redoubtable.)
(January 27, 2017 at 11:12 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: A similar incident in your scenario happened last week in Venice, Italy, when a 22 year-old guy from Gambia jumped into a canal.
Sad story, and watching the video, I just don't understand, was it an attempted suicide? I don't understand why he didn't grab the life rings.
(January 27, 2017 at 11:12 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Is the real hell being able to do whatever you want to do and then having to suffer the negative consequences?
Well that's one of the things I find so convenient and repugnant about the Christian conception of Hell, it's waved around as this 'mystery punishment', we don't really know what it is or what it feels like. Oh yeah we have imagery of fire and demons and whatever, but many now maintain that that is just symbolic imagery (at least for now, there's real fire at the end of the world) and the true meaning of the real punishment is eternal separation from God for which fire is a metaphor. Well how would anyone know what that means or what that feels like? And if it is indeed so bad, wouldn't any reasonable person reassess their life's choices if they got to experience that pain for even one minute?
Imagine telling someone who had never been burned before or experienced pain from heat that if they did X they would be set on fire. How are they supposed to understand the consequences? How is it fair to say they chose that punishment by doing X if they don't fully understand what it means to burn? This is the injustice of the Christian god.
