Since Heaven and Hell are not temporal ..

[Fidel_Castronaut]

GC, see how easily the atheists prove my point. I mention how they prefer clinging to false caricatures of Christianity so they can easily dismiss them and they come up with more make-believe theological controversies to hallucinate about.

Our perceptions of Christians and Christianity comes only from those who are themselves Christians or follow one of the many myriad of sects of Christianity.

Some of us even were Christians before shedding the shackles of faith.

Are you really going to go ahead and start talking about 'make-believe' in conjunction with theology? the 'academic' discipline which is itself based entirely on the beliefs of those who profess to espouse it and which has nothing beyond those beliefs to back it up?

I agree with Crossless above. Why not examine Baptist theology vis Swedenborgian and start tallying off the inconsistencies and contradictory view points? I'm sure there'll be some agreements (A 'christian' Jewish deity, Jesus, resurrection etc), but what of the disagreements? What do we do with those?

"You just don't want to believe" indeed.