(May 1, 2012 at 5:21 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:Eh, from your perspective, probably not much. Most Christians would try and claim that you're still living in a world in which God is everywhere, even if you don't see it. They'd claim you'd notice a difference after death. But I'm not going to harp on that because it wouldn't really get us anywhere.(May 1, 2012 at 5:11 pm)Black Chakram Wrote: I'm not God, so I can't speak for what things may or may not be like after death. Maybe to non-Christians, hell will be exactly what they want. Not having to deal with God.How is that 'godless existence' any different from what I'm experiencing right now?
Besides I don't believe in an after-death-life.
(May 1, 2012 at 5:21 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:It is described graphically. But a lot of it is metaphor. Read what I wrote in an earlier post about the lake outside Jerusalem.(May 1, 2012 at 5:11 pm)Black Chakram Wrote: It's public society that's created this image that hell is a terrible place for non-believers, not the Bible.Actually the Biblical hell or 'lake of fire' is described rather graphically and at great detail.
(May 1, 2012 at 5:21 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:(May 1, 2012 at 5:11 pm)Black Chakram Wrote: If you think you'd enjoy hell then cool. Spending an eternity in heaven with some God you hate would suck anyways, so all the better for the alternative, right? God's just giving you what you want. Really.Dude, worshipping ANYONE for an eternity would suck. Unless you're the god being worshipped of course. Personally I hate the whole notion of reverence. Its silly, degrading and primitive. >.>
Huh. Given God is described as being someone who is supposedly all things good and perfect, I really don't see what would be unenjoyable. But I don't think there's anything either of us can add to this point, so I'm leaving it as is.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them."
-- Galileo Galilei
-- Galileo Galilei