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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 06:25:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
> 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.
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> [JOHN]
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
resurrected.
-Orion
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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