(January 30, 2020 at 12:26 pm)tackattack Wrote: @arewethereyet fear, as an emotion, generally correlates better to our physiological response of fight/flight more directly than endorphine induced elation regarding some happy thoughts, thus the negative would have a stronger hold than the positive in most instances.
I get that but what I asked is if the belief was as 'real' when thinking about heaven as it was about hell. Did you have heaven as thought out as you did hell? Was it all about avoiding hell or was there some thought about working your way into heaven. Do you spend your life trying not to sin too much in order to escape punishment? If that's what life is about I am not seeing the appeal in the whole Christian belief system. A life spent either avoiding doing something 'wrong' and atonement for every potential misstep seems like a miserable way to live.
It seems even more empty to have the 'get out of jail free card' by claiming to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. How many murderers and rapists find Jesus in prison? Just think - that's who you get to spend eternity with - someone who said the magic words.
