This is all too complicated for me.
Since the 8th grade, I have been trying to figure out how Father Spink kept his glasses from falling off... he had only one ear. He loved my smile, but he never knew why.
About those water filled balloons I dropped onto a Nun cluster in the 8th grade, I am sorry, that was just too much fun to be sorry about. Sorry, I just can’t help it. Eight balloons, 8 hits from the 3rd story, and not getting caught.. how good is THAT?! Nobody has ever done that before, nobody’s that good. I sure hope that wasn’t how Father Spint lost his ear.
I am also trying to figure out if God has a sense of humor, because if he doesn’t, I am in real big trouble.
Does God laugh? I sure hope so.
Will I go to hell for the dirty jokes I told when I was a child? I mean, I wasn’t sorry for them then and it’s been so many years that I no longer remember the details, so if I said I was sorry now, it would be disingenuous.
Honest, if I could remember the jokes today, I’d tell them again, just so that I could say I’m sorry and really mean it.
The Doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints does not state that there is no hell. It simply states that the concept which is often designated as “Hell” in ENGLISH is actually from certain translations of Greek and Hebrew and that they do not all mean the same thing.
Thus, the idea of “Going to hell,” does not necessarily designate you to an everlasting and eternal torment, although I believe that is reserved for some offenses. In any event, please do not bear false witness (Not specifically you Gator)about one church’s belief when you are completely ignorant about it.
The point was that many people do not understand that the word that their speaking does not necessarily come from the same word in Bible texts. Thus, “Hell,” in spanish is often translated as “Infierno,” or “Inferno.” Additionally, when Jesus spoke to the sinner on the cross the term He used is not acurately translated as “Paradise” as in he would be fine, it is best translated as “World of the Spirits.”
Thanks, just have to set the record straight before you all decide to put words in our mouths, which has happened for nearly 200 years. Carry on, but remember false witness is no way to find out about hell either. You are entitled to your own beliefs, and the consequences of you actions, but others should not be accountable for your lies about their actions (again, not to Gator).