Rebellion against god

[Abaddon_ire]

The right understanding of the scriptures has to be based on correct English reading and comprehension.

Rubbish. It wasn't written in English. Any English version is many times rewritten, translated and edited by countless scribes after the original. Next you will tell us that jesus was white, LOL.

I don't know if the world is changing or that people are losing their reading skills. People read into it what they want to I guess.

People have been doing that ever since there were scriptures of any sort. It is hardly a new phenomenon. In fact, you are doing it right now with your amusing claim that your interpretation is correct.

Eternal torture is a lie, and if we are talking about annihilation - we are caught up in a world of death anyway, so we can't blame the Bible for that.

Sorry, but god in the bible explicitly claims responsibility and ownership of death.

Guilt tripping coupled with sensationalism is the formula of the church pill. It numbs the brain and warms the pews.

And the sky is blue. Thank you Captain Obvious.

But people still suffer from guilt regardless of their upbringing, and I am not certain whether that is from religious influences.

In part, yes, in part it is an evolved trait of a successful social animal.

Religion has always been in the world, it seems to be part of human nature.

Nope, you cannot possibly know that. Humans have been around for about 200,000 years. At most, you can make that claim for only some people for the last 10,000 years or so.

Some people believe that religion is a thing of the past and will be outgrown by the modern man.

Given the thousands of dead religions, the evidence suggests that all religions follow that trajectory. Christianity certainly is doing so. Islam is growing, but it is a younger faith. It too will die eventually.

Being a sinner makes it impossible to fix some things, but there is a large class of Christians who believe that they cannot fix anything, and that it is impossible to overcome their errors - which is nonsense of course.

There is no such thing as "sin". The concept was made up by the religious as a vector of control over their flock.

And faith being a neurological impossibility ? I wouldn't have a clue.

Well, if that demonstrates your reading comprehension, then nobody should place any credibility in your bible pronouncements.

Before Lucifer rebelled, he lived by faith in God. The majority of the angels still do.

No such thing as Lucifer to rebel.