RE: Can bible really be interpreted as if there is no torment but you cease to exist
February 2, 2012 at 1:16 pm
(February 2, 2012 at 10:03 am)Pel Wrote: Peace. You know how Jehovas witnesses and a few others(can someone who knows post who are the others) believe that the interpretation of eternal torment and the eternal fire means that you burn up and there fore you cease to exist.
I kind of believe that that's what God would do as a punishment and it makes sense. I mean He doesnt have to torment someone for eternity.
Now, my question To those who believe in hell same as Jehovah's Witnesses that is that you cease to exist, how does eternally tormented mean cessation of existence?
And to those who believe in eternal torment: Why would God do something like that?
Also, are Jehovah's witnesses honest with them selves in their interpretation? I suppose they really believe in it because they would not refuse blood transfusion that can otherwise save their lives at times if they where not sinciere!
Thoughts
Thanks
It's kind of a rigged system, isn't it? I mean, he creates man, knows all, but makes man inperfect, knows he will sin and when, but then punishes him when he does? If god is omnipotent, whjy wouldn't he rid the world of all the suffering. Seems to me that such a god is more of a sadist than anything.
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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