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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Christian.  I do not believe in hell, at least not in the way people have been coerced into believing.   If you take the time to research the original Biblical text you'll find that nothing like "hell" is ever mentioned in the scripture.    Here's a really easy to read link with some examples.  [url]http://www.thehypertexts.com/no%20hell%20in%20the%20bible.htm[/url]  Do some research on the original meaning of the words that were later translated to mean "hell".  They aren't even close.

The Hell we are warned about today didn't exist in Biblical times.  "Hell" was created by powerful people as a means of control.  Nothing more.    Think about it logically.  If you are a Christian, you know that God is all good.  All loving.  All compassion.  He created you out from an abundance of love.  As your Creator, He/She is incapable of causing you pain.  Is there anything one of your children could do - anything at all -  that would cause you to send him to an eternity of suffering an pain?  God's love for us is even greater than the love we have for our children and for each other.  He is author of love!

Fundamental Christianity is nothing short of religious abuse.  I believe it has damaged many, many people (like the pp who is terrified of hell).  Christianity is wonderful!  Christ was a living example of God's perfect love.  To be a Christian means to be "Christ-like".  What could possibly be better than modeling your life after someone who was kind, compassionate, loving, forgiving, generous, enlightened ....  All things we should strive to be.  Being Christ-like has nothing to do with terrifying people into religious submission.

God is All-good.  All-loving.  All-powerful.  Love.  Light.  Perfection.  Grace.   He created you and wants only your highest and best.  [/quote]

Nice, but sounds like you've decided to believe what's most comfortable for you - no hell, and a loving god who provided no punishment to people who do not follow him.[/quote]

I'm not saying that at all.  I believe that God set up our universe with natural laws.   Unfortunately, we really do reap what we sow.  Some people call that the Law of Circulation.  What you put out comes back to you.   I don't believe that people who are truly evil will go to "heaven" (whatever that means to you).  However, not being with God does not equal spending an eternity roasting in a fire pit.  I don't claim to know the answers.  I think anyone who does needs to check his ego.   However, I have spent a lot of time in prayer, meditation, thought, and study.  Nothing at all about the God I know leads me to believe that He/She would ever send someone to an eternity of suffering.[/quote]

What you've said seems only to support the  notion that you've decided to believe what's most comfortable for you.  You've given it a lot of thought, prayer, meditation and study and this is what YOU've come up with - fine - it's your notion.  Others might come to the same personal conclusion after a similar process and others come to different conclusions, as evident in this discussion.

For instance, others say it doesn't make sense that a god would punish OR reward its creation and everything they know about biological  life, indicates that it begins ends in a biological way, then ultimately becomes dust, through some type of decay - burial or incineration. Therefore they reject the notion of any kind of god.[/quote]

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