RE: Thoughts on Hell?
October 25, 2017 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2017 at 2:55 pm by mordant.)
(October 23, 2017 at 11:44 pm)Godscreated Wrote: Christians aren't as deceiving as you would like them to be. Lying to children and then they find out differently would only cause trouble, the Bible teaches this basic fact.My parents taught me approved dogma which proved to be incorrect and neither accurately predicted nor explained experienced reality. This eventually led to my departure from the failed epistemology of religious faith.
I would not say that my parents knowingly "lied" but they did teach me untruths and they DID cause massive problems later such as very poor life decisions based on my understanding from them of cause and effect within god's economy. These were things like marrying a Good Christian Girl without regard to her mental health issues which (1) Real Christians don't have and which (2) God will take care of in any case; watching my 2nd wife die slowly and painfully of a rare disease despite my expectation that god blesses the righteous and confounds the wicked rather than the inverse; and similar such things over the course of time.
I would MUCH rather have been taught about how reality actually works than how my spiritual handlers WISHED that it worked.
