Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 11 months agoIf you spent eternity in a fiery pit wouldn't you just get use to being in a fiery pit?message-squaremessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down112
arrow-up1114arrow-down1message-squareIf you spent eternity in a fiery pit wouldn't you just get use to being in a fiery pit?Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squareThrowaway@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down5·11 months agoThe fiery pit/dante’s hell version doesn’t actually exist in the bible. The main thing about hell is you don’t experience god’s love/presence, which is weird but a lot better than an eternity of torture.
minus-squareDaft_ish@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoWhat about the post right above you? into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. God’s love seems a little temperamental and reserved for some nasty people. I think I’m good on God’s love.
minus-squareThrowaway@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·11 months agoOh he is, but that post above is Mathew talking. The example Id use is the book of Job. Basically Satan and God conspire to make a faithful guy’s life horrible.
minus-squareDiplomjodler@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoSo why have churches been threatening their victims with hell for centuries? Could it be they all make it up as they go along?
minus-squareCarlsIII@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·11 months agoThe rest of the stuff you said isn’t in the Bible either
The fiery pit/dante’s hell version doesn’t actually exist in the bible. The main thing about hell is you don’t experience god’s love/presence, which is weird but a lot better than an eternity of torture.
What about the post right above you?
into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
God’s love seems a little temperamental and reserved for some nasty people. I think I’m good on God’s love.
Oh he is, but that post above is Mathew talking.
The example Id use is the book of Job. Basically Satan and God conspire to make a faithful guy’s life horrible.
So why have churches been threatening their victims with hell for centuries? Could it be they all make it up as they go along?
The rest of the stuff you said isn’t in the Bible either