What is Hell?

Get out

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Consequences to your actions don't really exist, man! That's just a fiction written up to keep you DOWN. You can do anything and everything you want and they're all equally beneficial to yourself and everyone else!

Satire aside, even on a secular level anyone who isn't a total sperg recognizes that the Bible is metaphorically completely true. If you sin you hurt your psychological wellbeing and live in a state of "hell" so to speak. The people who wrote the these religious texts are leagues more intelligent than who we have to work with today. It's too up you whether you want to take the leap of faith and believe in it literally or not.

It doesn't. Some of our (manmade) theology does, and that isn't the same thing. It was snuffed out by Justinian first. Even the Pope in his day wasn't willing to ostracize all of the universalists who were in the Church at that point. Christians before this time occasionally entertained reincarnation, without being persecuted. Jesus himself hinted that John the Baptist was Elijah as well. And all who deny these plain words are simply suffering from cognitive dissonance and provide weak answers when trying to rationalize out of it. They are sadly not who Jesus addressed when he said "And if ye will receive it, this is Elijah, which was for to come. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." These people are not the ones "willing to accept it" and do not have ears to hear. I can only hope they eventually change (And it's OK if they don't anytime soon. It's not a matter of great importance. Nor was it when Jesus said that. He merely pointed out that some aren't ready to hear it).

Also, when his disciples asked him the question about the man born blind, they asked "Who sinned? This man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus didn't even flinch and correct them about their assumption there - because it was also a thought to some Jews then. And still is. Ask an Orthodox Jew - many have beliefs about reincarnation (and not all are kabbalists.. Kabbalism builds on an older belief first). Other scriptures indicate that John came in the spirit and power of Elijah - which is the key. Spirit of Elijah. Elsewhere, the Bible makes a distinction between Soul and Spirit and Body. We are tripartite beings. For some reason, this teaching of the Church is largely ignored, but it will help make more sense out of what I say here… as Christian rebirth is not the same idea of "Buddhist" reincarnation. Only Christianity once taught this tripartite makeup, but now it teaches the same thing as all of these other religions. That we are merely bodies and souls. And this paradigm is what makes reincarnation particularly uncomfortable.

You can all call me a heretic if you like, but it won't a make difference. It's true whether you like it or not, and you'll find out, just as I have. There's a reason why I'm absolutely confident about it. And perhaps once you find this out, you'll realize the depth of God's patience and love. When we project impatience and ruthlessness on to God, we start easily excusing it when we do it to our fellow man. And that's the greatest tragedy of all. Only by realizing God's love can you finally give your fellow man a break too. You'll also understand that even the punishments for some of the worst of us have their limits in most cases. God's love is great even for some that we ourselves would rather burn for eternity. "Amen I say to you, you shall by no means get out of there, until. you have paid the last penny." Catholics were right for realizing there was a state of purging for some (but went overboard in constructing a Dante like realm called "purgatory", rather than a pending state), but it's tied up in all of what I've said above. He who has ears to ear, let him ear. ;)

Well don't post shitty memes that make Satan out to be some reasonable being. It makes it look like you've come here in bad faith.

So do I.

I think you mistook my post for being pro-religion or pro-god.

It is not.

I was merely pointing out the rationale behind the concept of hell (i.e. why these religions invented hell). Which is basically to keep their followers scared and obedient.

I am not pro-Islam, I was merely pointing out how it is more sophisticated than both Christianity and Judaism, due to the fact that it came several hundred years later.

So the people who put together the religion of Islam made some "corrections" and tightened up loose ends of the other religions.

That is why Islam is a much more effective and aggressive ideology.

For what it's worth I think they are all shit.

God doesn't put you in hell, you put you in hell, and it's perfectly logical why disbelieving in Him results in hell. Though Christianity can make some fearful bigots, unbelief tends to create people who lack humility and don't hesitate to cut corners morally speaking, after all, if no-one is watching, why not behave badly? And then there are the rich, who imagine moral problems can always be solved by writing cheques.

So there are plenty of hell-deserving people, and even Christians deserve hell, but we believe that honestly confessing your sins is the way out of perdition.

How many people in hell? Depends on who you ask, but I wouldn't go so far as to presume that everyone gets to heaven eventually.

Your indoctrination is showing.
The Jews who have remained Jews have rejected the covenant of Abraham, thus Judaism as it exists in the present day is not Abrahamic.
Islam is a fan fiction written by a man nearly 1,300 years removed from one of Abraham's bastard sons, and it is therefore not of Abraham.

Even if christianity was false, it would still be 10000 times better than ath*ism, it is the only religion that can move society further, else you'll have a weak society full of sodomites. The only reasonable stance an atheist can take is: "atheism is true but faith in christianity must be maintened and protected at all costs" else you're either a fool or destructor of civilization and a traitor, like all evangelist atheists.

You could just read the Wiki article you lazy retard. Oh wait:
To you? Who are you? What makes you so capable and special that, instead of doing your own work and reading the Scriptures—or, apparently, just doing some quick Googling—you deserve to be spoonfed metaphysics like some royal child?

Grow up.