RE: Help me not fear heaven/hell
March 26, 2019 at 9:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2019 at 9:01 pm by fredd bear.)
(March 25, 2019 at 4:49 pm)Cecelia Wrote: If Hell is a physical place, there are plenty of scientists there who will have invented Air Conditioning, the internet, and lightbulbs by now. They probably have casinos, brothels, bookstores, video games, movies, and probably a lot of cool stuff we don't have yet.
If hell is not a physical place, you cannot feel pain.
Christianity teaches they bodily resurrection of everyone at some vague time in thee future. That suggests bodies and a physical hell.
That idea is problematic for me; I was taught that time and space came into existence with creation. ( like the big bang?) That time and space will cease to exist after the end of days. That makes the notion of 'eternity' meaningless.
Plus of course, as I keep saying. Christianity is based on the Torah. There is no concept of an eternal hell in Judaism. The closest they get is a kind of a watered down purgatory; the most anyone spends there is 2 years.
Eternal hell is purely a Christian invention, slowly changing from a vague idea of an afterlife, lifted from Roman beliefs . The Christians also invented the devil/satan, to go with hell.
Once again, I post clips of Bishop emeritus John Shelby Spong, the great embarrassment to the Episcopalian church:
The church invented hell..----"the church is in the guilt producing control business" (about 5 minutes.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF6I5VSZ...jreload=10
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This one is 52 minutes., bout his book: 'The Sins Of Scripture'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLVE9Sf3...jreload=10
