tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post7567078818214419726..comments2023-05-05T04:17:01.895-05:00Comments on Mere Skepticism: HMOH #2: Destination?SPacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331478714942024421noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post-71749191227828709342009-11-25T20:39:13.616-06:002009-11-25T20:39:13.616-06:00I think "hell" was created by old guys i...I think "hell" was created by old guys in robes in a synagogue somewhere in the desert 3000+ years ago... to keep "their flock" in line. If there is a hell, we are there now. What could be worse than starving children, incest, rape, murder, elder abuse, cancer, war, AIDS in Africa... need I go on? This is hell. Now we can only hope that after this life, we get to do Dixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388115336000505101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post-5300228064095555582007-11-08T22:33:00.000-06:002007-11-08T22:33:00.000-06:00As a Christian who's sympathetic toward Christian ...As a Christian who's sympathetic toward Christian universalism -- NOT pluralism -- I find it hard to suggest that anyone is going to hell. I'm not saying I don't believe in hell; I'm just saying I think there's a chance, a decent chance, that no one has to go there, unless, as C.S. Lewis has said, the doors are shut from the inside.Eric Guelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971812686839076293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post-53494782687496331232007-10-25T15:33:00.000-05:002007-10-25T15:33:00.000-05:00Most of the scriptures that are used to present a ...Most of the scriptures that are used to present a horrible, fire-and-brimstone hell are taken out of context. Jesus' most graphic description of Hell is in a parable and Christians don't take the other parables that Jesus shares as literal events. Rather, Jesus was using beliefs and world views of his day to present a point about what it means to live justly. Further, when Jesus tells his Gavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05577745025792490091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post-42896430555919220262007-10-23T18:56:00.000-05:002007-10-23T18:56:00.000-05:00Got me on a technicality!Sooo....you're telling me...Got me on a technicality!<BR/><BR/>Sooo....you're telling me there's a chance?!?!?![/Lloyd Christmas]<BR/><BR/>-Hell JaredJaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389796827462586130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post-29525127284036051742007-10-23T18:39:00.000-05:002007-10-23T18:39:00.000-05:00I think a small detail that conflicts with what St...I think a small detail that conflicts with what Stef means and what Jared just said is time-oriented. Technically, as Jared said, ANY Christian should believe you are going to Hell, IF you died right now. Stef's point (I think) is to say that you are still alive, so no human can say where you are GOING to go. "Stacy is going to hell" is probably the most arrogant thing someone can say, becauseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post-28055520900692947502007-10-23T14:39:00.000-05:002007-10-23T14:39:00.000-05:00“The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow mad...“The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mightyJaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389796827462586130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post-52129474575201695382007-10-23T11:36:00.000-05:002007-10-23T11:36:00.000-05:00I just watched the Hell video. That is exactly wh...I just watched the Hell video. That is exactly why I am a Calvinist. What is worse than Hell? Probably nothing... but I would think that even worse than going to Hell is thinking that you are the <I>reason</I> someone you love is Hell. If that were the case, I would not believe in God either, or I might believe in Him, but I would hate him. I couldn't worship that God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post-83666010931557872142007-10-23T11:05:00.000-05:002007-10-23T11:05:00.000-05:00I don't "judge" people to Hell :-) I do think that...I don't "judge" people to Hell :-) <BR/><BR/>I do think that if you're not a Christian you're going to Hell. <BR/><BR/>What I was saying in my blog is that we'll never know what people end up being (atheist, christian, muslim, jew, etc) until the end of their life. Who knows, you may become a Christian again... and I may become a Muslim. I very strongly doubt either of those will happen.<BR/><Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post-10728045674306507762007-10-23T00:13:00.000-05:002007-10-23T00:13:00.000-05:00What I'm getting from this post is that no one sho...What I'm getting from this post is that no one should be claiming anyone is damned to hell...or is that just a Calvinist thing? <BR/><BR/>Judge not lest ye be judged and all that...so do you think people who DO judge others to hell based on their lack of Jesus is inappropriate (even when they can so righteously point out how it is OK for them to do so?)? I personally do, but then heaven/hell SPacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11331478714942024421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934570774178952604.post-77949385806581038312007-10-22T16:11:00.000-05:002007-10-22T16:11:00.000-05:00I answered this question in response to your comme...I answered this question in response to your comment on my post below. I'll quote myself:<BR/><BR/>I would think less of God if I thought that you, Stacy, could waiver back and forth between saved and not saved. Not that I don't admire your intellect and think that you are one of the smartest (and nice smelling) humans... but you are incapable of getting climbing between heaven and hell. I'm Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com