(July 10, 2016 at 7:04 am)Lucifer Wrote:(July 10, 2016 at 2:12 am)Godschild Wrote: Even at the cost of an eternal punishment.
GC
Yeah, it takes a lot of courage to stand by your principles with those kind of consequences.
I had to fight that fear too in my process of leaving religion. Fortunately, I don't have any evidence that a hell exists (or a heaven, god, angels, demons...), so there are only benefits for me. It is the ones who stay with religion who risk losing their lives, not the ones who leave.
I may have lost the world you consider so precious, what I have gained is an eternal life. My life is secured by the creator of the universe, by His grace.
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God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.