I have a liberal family member who always says she would rather go to hell because "that's where all the cool people will be". Sad.
Who? Does she mean folks like Hitler, Stalin, Torquemada,...?
It’s not even a very good paraphrase of Mark Twain’s quip: “Heaven for climate, but Hell for the company.”
My personal opinion is that most of us are going to be more than a bit surprised about where we find ourselves after judgement, and with whom we will be spending eternity. And none more so than the more fervent true believers contributing to this thread.
Well if you take the way the Fundamentalists think the way the bookings will be made.
Hell gets people like Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain
Heaven gets people like... well, Ken Ham.
No party/company there. They (all) are separated in hell yet, will be able to see heaven.
Remember the rich man who had it all on earth, yet, when he died he went to hell and looked up and saw Lazarus in heaven. Lazarus was the the poor beggar, who sat outside the rich man’s gate on earth and was given crumbs from him.
He asked if Lazarus would warn his brothers (on earth) and, then asked, if Lazarus would just give him one drop of water for his tongue. He was told, if they/brothers don’t believe The Word of God, they won’t believe Lazarus. (Isn’t that what we see here? If they don’t believe what God has already spoken, or not even believe in The Creator - nothing we say will change them.)
Lucifer was cast down for his pride - wanted to be like God. Likewise, it’s pride in one’s ‘own’ belief - the NEED to be right. They consider what they see and understand with their natural senses to be true vs. God’s Word. They use natural intelligence as their god, their truth vs. the Supernatural God’s Truth. That’s pride. There is good reason why God told us how/why Lucifer was cast out. God tells us about the Pharisee’s and how they stood on The Law and told Jesus He was wrong! They, too, were prideful and thus UNTEACHABLE.
Those with the robes and studied men, those in prominence do hold their ‘own’ knowledge is high esteem. Their stance: “I have studied, I have seen, I have touched, this theory works, blah, blah - all in the natural”! They CAN’T get past ‘themselves’. A true demonstration of pride.
[[I have a liberal family member who always says she would rather go to hell because “that’s where all the cool people will be”. Sad.]]
Yeah- a lot of people say that or something like “I’d rather go to hell a free person who decides on their own than to go to heaven forced by hte church to choose” or somethign similar to that- Little do they realize