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To: Gunslingr3

Bingo! Do your research on languages & contexts, and one will find this nonsense about an eternal fiery pit is crap that was introduced by Pagan traditions into the church. God is not a two headed monster who says love me or I will torture you forever.


4 posted on 09/26/2010 2:46:44 PM PDT by badbass
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To: badbass
God is not a two headed monster who says love me or I will torture you forever.

OTOH, allah is.

5 posted on 09/26/2010 2:49:57 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 614 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: badbass

Your life is full of forked roads. Good and evil, yes and no, only you can make those choices. God does the same thing with Heaven and Hell. You chose the road you will take, God does not send you there, you send you there.


14 posted on 09/26/2010 3:10:25 PM PDT by fish hawk (there is only one God and he is not called Allah)
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To: badbass
God is not a two headed monster who says love me or I will torture you forever.

Where did you see that in this article?

15 posted on 09/26/2010 3:13:57 PM PDT by NYer ("God dwells in our midst, in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar." St. Maximilian Kolbe)
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To: badbass; Gunslingr3

The Vedas teach of hell, in the Puranas there are many descriptions of not just one but many hells. The punishments are of extremely long duration, but not eternal.

And all atheists go to hell, it is stated.


16 posted on 09/26/2010 3:19:47 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: badbass
Do your research on languages & contexts, and one will find this nonsense about an eternal fiery pit is crap that was introduced by Pagan traditions into the church. God is not a two headed monster who says love me or I will torture you forever.

Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

27 posted on 09/26/2010 4:30:13 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: badbass
God is not a two headed monster who says love me or I will torture you forever.

No, but reincarnation solves that problem. And it doesn't even have to invoke "living again." Do you "live again" when you wake up in the morning? In a way yes, in a way no. Likewise, some people could use a heavy does of Divine torture, because that's the only communication they choose to heed. As long as the punishment fits the crime (meaning however many thousands or more years of hell necessary), where's the moral objection?

53 posted on 09/27/2010 1:19:42 AM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: badbass
God is not a two headed monster who says love me or I will torture you forever.

Matthew 25:46 "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."

Luke 16:23 "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom."

Revelation 14:11 " And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name."

65 posted on 09/27/2010 12:13:49 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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