RE: On Hell and Forgiveness
August 28, 2018 at 12:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2018 at 12:10 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(August 28, 2018 at 11:36 am)Kit Wrote: Plenty can be done without god. The problem lies in thinking god is the be all to end all. Anything can be done without god. Theists just prefer to think otherwise for the sake of supporting the delusion.
Why does every difference of opinion need to be characterized as a delusion? How is it possible for someone to have a sincere conversation with another whom he considers to be mentally ill? Why should that other person reach out to the first knowing the first will dismiss him as irrational? Anyways...
From a Christian perspective you are seeing things completely backwards. God is indeed, contrary to what you say, the be all to end all. He is the alpha and the omega (Rev 1:8, Rev 22:13). He is the All in all (Col 3:11, Eph 4:6, 1 Cor 15:28). In Classical philosophy, creation would collapse into non-being without the sustained activity of a Necessary Being. The root of Hell is clinging to the belief that anything can exist apart from God when in reality your very being depends on God.
It should be obvious to you, based on just this last post of yours, that you desire to be apart from God. That attitude is consistent with our position that Hell is a turning away that results in a kind of self-imposed exile.
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