How do you think society would change if people knew without a doubt what awaited them after death?
Unrepentant sinners go to Hell. Here's an idea of what Hell is like basic on sacred scripture:
>no sound >nothing to see >nothing to touch >nothing to smell >nothing to taste >complete isolation >no mental stimulation whatsoever except for the grief of being stuck eternally in nothingness >you will have your memories of your life but they won't be happy in anyway, you'll just feel an unbearable remorse without end >the pain, being separated from anything good, will feel like dying but without the finality of death
Add burning hellfire to this if you're one of the really evil sinners.
Hell is just as much a guess of what comes next as any of the other options put forth by thousands of religious systems before Judeo-Christianity. While it's a scary idea, it's contingent on the Abrahamic faiths being "correct" which is obviously not the case given that their holy books frequently contradict themselves: ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/YaBBAttachments/101_Contradictions_In_The_Bible.pdf And are based on earlier polytheistic texts, such as the Ugaritic Ba'al Cycle: youtube.com/watch?v=ZECezMYug8c
Since the Bible is neither internally consistent OR original, it stands to reason it isn't the "truth"
>The Tears of Cain Suppose that, in the case of unhappy Cain, weeping in Hell, he shed in every thousand years just one tear. Now, O my soul, recollect your thoughts and suppose this case: For six thousand years at least Cain has been in Hell and shed only six tears, which God miraculously preserves. How many years would pass for his tears to fill all the valleys of the earth and flood all the cities and towns and villages and cover all the mountains so as to flood the whole earth? We understand the distance from the earth to the sun is thirty-four million leagues. How many years would be necessary for Cain's tears to fill that immense space? From the earth to the firmament is, let us suppose, a distance of a hundred and sixty million leagues.
O God! What number of years might one imagine to be sufficient to fill with these tears this immense space? And yet – O truth so incomprehensible – be sure of it, as that God cannot lie – a time will arrive in which these tears of Cain would be sufficient to flood the world, to reach even the sun, to touch the firmament, and fill all the space between earth and the highest heaven. But that is not all.
If God dried up all these tears to the last drop and Cain began again to weep, he would again fill the same entire space with them and fill it a thousands times and a million times in succession, and after all those countless years, not even half of eternity would have passed, not even a fraction. After all that time burning in Hell, Cain's sufferings will be just beginning.
This eternity is also without relief. It would indeed be a small consolation and of little benefit for the condemned persons to be able to receive a brief respite once every thousand years.
I love Jesus. It would be a form of insanity not to worship Him. Everything good in my life I owe to him. Everything bad is a chance for me to mortify myself in order than I don't suffer in endless pain after death, but instead receive a full cup in heaven forever. All Christ asks for is obedience and love, both things anyone can give immediately.
Zachary Russell
God doesn't send us to hell for not worshipping him. We send ourselves there as part of the (super)natural order; by rejecting God, who is all-loving. If you weren't so stupid you could try to read some Aquinas and get a better idea of what your argument actually is. We aren't necessarily obligated to believe anyone is even in hell, despite many private revelations stating so.
Ayden Carter
>nothing to touch >burning hellfire
Pick one
Carter Jackson
also your picrel is retarded. We entrust those who do not know Christ to God's mercy - no matter how apparent their rejection of Him may seem. Not up to us to judge or pretend how God is going to determine one's culpability,
Blake Mitchell
I don't know anything for certain obviously but from what I've heard the more evil you were the more you burn. Otherwise its just nothingness.
Tyler Murphy
Fair enough.
Alexander Rogers
So Jesus was a Jew. What does it matter? He fulfilled all OT prophesies and partook in Jewish rituals to demonstrate that in addition to being fully divine, he was also fully human; thereby subject to the very same law he came to replace. True Jews became Christians. Your arguments are fucking lame, man.
Joshua Cruz
>God doesn't send us to hell for not worshipping him. We send ourselves there as part of the (super)natural order; by rejecting God That's like saying: "I'm not being sent to prison for stealing a car, I'm sending myself to prison for choosing to steal a car." See how that's a retarded argument?
Grayson Rodriguez
God made literally everything. You're taking for granted everything good. Hell is the absence of all good. What are you left with? Your own soul in a void in want of any good but finding nothing. You have to humble yourself and understand God is in control of everything, and you are being permitted to experience good things. You're in amazing bliss right now compared to the endless agony of hell (without God).
Jackson Cox
Seems more like you proved my point. Don't steal the fucking car and blame it on the system you moron.
Colton Evans
Feel free to worship a deified Rabbi, but you can't do so while pretending your religion isn't an offspring of Judaism. Hence, the term Judeo-Christianity is accurate.
Whatever helps you get through the day, just know that choosing to be a thought-slave to a Semitic egregore is pathetic - especially if you're not an ethnic Jew (as the covenant of YHVH isn't meant for non-Jews anyway, that notion really only began to change with Paul - who never even met Christ personally).
Romans 1:16 >For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
People dont like to focus on this. They only see God as bad for allowing evil to exist, without realizing that evil is a necessary side-effect of His gift of free will. How could God be considered all-loving if he created us simply to worship him? We would be nothing more than slaves. The fact He gives us a choice and ability to reject him demonstrates His love.
Jaxson Hall
Hell is not Real you fuckwit. Sandnigger tales from the desert.
Austin Watson
Except your God isn't real, hence why large swathes of YHVH's descriptions in the Bible are taken from the earlier (polytheistic) Ugaritic Ba'al Cycle youtube.com/watch?v=ZECezMYug8c
Given that YHVH wasn't originally conceived of in a monotheistic context, it's ridiculous for Jesus to claim to be "one with" (John 10:30) with that Deity in a monotheistic sense.
Seriously, you're failing hard at being offensive. It's not an "offspring" of Judaism... it's the fulfillment of Judaism, and no Christian will have a problem with that.
You call me a thought slave, but you're no more than a slave to your own passions; someone who thinks true freedom is being able to do anything you want. Sad, really.
Isaac Lopez
Hell means the "hidden place" Heaven means the "safe habor".
More meaning than that is only conjectures of men, rife with imagination.
