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To: Alex Murphy
2) If you aren’t redeemed, you’re going to fry in hell for all of eternity.

Hmm...Where do you get that idea? It's not mentioned in the Scriptures anywhere that I can find.

19 posted on 07/18/2008 7:16:01 AM PDT by Truth Defender (History teaches, if we but listen to it; but no one really listens!)
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To: Truth Defender
If you aren’t redeemed, you’re going to fry in hell for all of eternity.

Hmm...Where do you get that idea? It's not mentioned in the Scriptures anywhere that I can find.

The Gospel of Thomas and other "lost gospels" which were left out of the version of the Bible which emerged from the Council of Nicea present a very different view of God. According to some of them, the god of Genesis was a lesser god, and a rather petty one at that. These gospels present the view of a God beyond this one.

Personally, I have always wondered at the seemingly human frailties of a god who is cruel, judgemental, jealous, demanding of adoration and obedience while at the same time being responsible for setting the whole cruel process in motion. It is interesting to me that some of the writings that were left out of the Christian scriptures actually address this very idea.

105 posted on 07/18/2008 10:06:52 AM PDT by cerberus
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