RE: Core Message Of Christianity Isn't One Of Love
August 27, 2015 at 8:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2015 at 8:50 pm by Whateverist.)
(August 27, 2015 at 7:10 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: quote='abaris' pid='1033263' dateline='1440716776']
But more and more theologians are explaining Hell more as a state of being than an actual, physical "place" with fire and little guys running around with pitch forks lol.
Now that is some good theology. Talk of hell as a place was allegorical. Just curious, if it turns out that heaven is also just a state of mind, something you can only experience while you have a mind and a brain to keep it in, would that still make belief worth it? I want to say it can, but obviously as soon as your theology becomes this good you are perilously close to losing faith in God. For that matter, perhaps the idea of God is also allegorical but likewise a useful model for the way our conscious minds relate to the older, largely unconscious mind which gives rise to us.
