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Re: This is where I actually want a gun
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 8 Feb 2004 06:15:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Orion Pobursky wrote:
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In fact, I find it hard to accept
that a God who loves us could possibly commit someone to the eternal suffering
that is commonly accepted as hell.
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I have the same problem, but after having read The Great Divorce by CS Lewis,
I have come to as close an understanding as I think I will ever come WRT Hell.
His basic premise is that we of our own free will choose Hell, not God
condemning us to it. Hell (separation from God) is self-imposed for those who
refuse to confess their sin due to their own pride. They prefer darkness and
hate the light; prefer dwelling amongst evil instead of good, because the light
of goodness shames them and reveals their sin which they refuse to admit or
accept responsibility.
JOHN
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| (...) I lean towards the Seventh Day Adventist teachings in that death is a sleep during which the "dead know nothing" (Eccl 9:5), which is to say that nothing of a person survives death, that the dead simply cease to exist until they are (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm not so sure. While I still hold on my faith, I find it deeply distrubing that the atrocities ordered by God in the Old Testament are not reputiated in the teachings of Jesus since Jesus is God. In fact, I find it hard to accept that a God (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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