RE: Eternity in Heaven - Scary?
July 24, 2018 at 7:38 am
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2018 at 7:39 am by Fake Messiah.)
(July 23, 2018 at 8:14 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: So for those of you who used to believe in an eternal Heaven, I am wondering, did any of you share similar feelings about it?
Heaven doesn't seem to be described as a nice place. Like, take the character of archangel Michael. He is general of armies in heaven. And yes Bible says Heaven is filled with armies. Would you want to live in a place filled with armies? I wouldn't.
Also Bible says there were wars in Heaven like Revelation 12:7. If it happened before why couldn't it occur again? Also it would be hard to imagine a war without lying, stealing, cheating, brutality, killing, inhumanity, and all the other activities we have all grown so accustomed to in bad parts of this world. So, to be frank, Heaven described in the Bible sounds like a shithole.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
