It wasn't until the nt that god started sending people to hell. Under the prophets you went to sheol (the grave). In other words when you died, you were dead.
Gentle Jesus was an apocalyptic Jew and needed hell and a powerful satan because the teachings of the prophets, that suffering came from wickedness and the righteous always prevail, just wasn't happening in this life. Where would Christianity be without hell and the devil?
Gentle Jesus was an apocalyptic Jew and needed hell and a powerful satan because the teachings of the prophets, that suffering came from wickedness and the righteous always prevail, just wasn't happening in this life. Where would Christianity be without hell and the devil?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
