Hell

[nailit]

FAO Theland and others of his ilk.
Born again Christians believe that unless we believe like they do that we are going to burn in some kind of hell for eternity. Can you please justify such an odious concept/doctrine? (this goes for muslims as well)
I genuinely struggle with this idea. I have a couple of evangelical friends who are the nicest people you could meet but I have to question their sanity when they wish this on unbelievers like myself.

[keyplus90]

I have heard all that before Naomi and that is the reason I do not waste my time on "known Characters" here.

Each and everyone of us knows here that you have obsession about proclaiming your self-declared victories. Because your biggest problem is that you only read your own words.

[naomi24]

Keyplus, I don’t claim what you call victories to be mine alone because other people who read ALL the words, as I do, have been instrumental in our discussions over the years. Still at least you acknowledge that our arguments have succeeded - which should tell you something.

[keyplus90]

????

[naomi24]

So you're STILL confused. Oh well....

[Theland]

There is such anger from those who don't believe in God, targeted AT God. How ridiculous.

[naomi24]

Who's angry at God?

[mibn2cweus]

If anyone is angry it is your alleged God . . . or so we've been told.

[Theland]

God is loving and gives us all exactly what we want. In this life and the next. God will let me be with Him because that is what I want. If somebody does not wish to know Him, then He will respect that wish and separate that person from Himself for all eternity.
That is hell.

[mibn2cweus]

Love is not giving everyone everything they want. Love is acknowledging the value of that which contributes to making life a rewarding experience. Hell is living out ones life having never learned to value that which makes life worth living, seeking unearned rewards beyond the grave for that which one has failed to appreciate in life.

[Theland]

Forgive me Mibs but that is utter rubbish.

[mibn2cweus]

Depends on what one finds value in. One's trash is another's treasure. I don't subscribe to the unconditional. The value of love is conditional upon one's understanding of what makes it real and worth keeping apart for which it fades away like the illusion it was revealing the fraud upon which one's presumption of love was based.

Have you ever considered what the words you use so indiscriminately and interchangeably might actually mean?

[Theland]

Yes Mibs. Always.