RE: Fear of letting go?
June 2, 2019 at 9:22 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2019 at 9:24 pm by Simon Moon.)
(May 31, 2019 at 1:02 pm)TristanJ Wrote:(May 31, 2019 at 9:26 am)Fireball Wrote: Go look up all the histories of hell, and then you will realize that they are the products of ignorant, fevered imaginations. That'll help you deprogram yourself from that fear.
Iv'e not looked up the history's of hell or the bible because i'd rather waste my day reading psychology or something useful even though it wouldn't harm me to look into it
I've watched a lot of things and i'm not sure the fear of hell is my biggest concern anymore or that it'll be solved because i think it's a very irrational fear?
I believe one of the points Fireball is getting at, is that almost no image of hell that modern Christians have is Biblical. Almost every image and description of hell the vast majority of Christians have are take from the books, "Paradise Lost" by Milton and Dante's "Inferno".
The one question I could ask you about your fear of the Christians hell is, while you were a Christian, how much time did you spend in fear of the hells of other religions? After all, the description of Jahannam in the Koran is quite a bit worse than any Biblical description of the Christian hell.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
