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Originally Posted by Data1000
Casts non-believers into the flames of hell to endure never ending torture?
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Ha. Yes, this one.
Do you literally believe that God does that? Sends people there for 'non-believing'
(...whatever that entails?) Maybe underground? With a Red Devil and a Pitchfork?
Or in some other, hellish, dimension?
I don't.
Been reading the Bible for (20+?) years, off and on, mainly to find faults and contradictions...
As a militant
youthful Atheist. Had many loooong conversations with Mormon Missionaries. On both sides
of the issue, over the years. So, anyways, I understand your point. I have personally come to believe
that God is
bigger than the Bible. That Man is fallible. (This I can prove... personally.
)
That
men wrote the Bible...most divinely inspired.
But it has a wide variety of ...how shall we say?...'viewpoints'?
Even comparing the Old Testament to the New Testament...
I do not believe that there is a Hell
everlasting.
But, through 'excruciating transformations'...our own sins
will be burned away.
Sooner or later...
That's
my current understanding anyway... always open to other viewpoints.
Quote:
"...nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you."
~ Luke 17:21
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If the
Kingdom of God is within you, why not the other place?