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It doesn't really matter what theologians and novelists think about hell if there's no reason to believe in such a terrible place 
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That was in reply to a poster whi complained about the Christian God sending people to hell. It mattered enough to that poster, since he/she made an issue of it. If you don't care for it, no problem at all.[/quote]

That was me. The statement stands. It wasn't a complaint about the Christian God, it was a statement.  The punishment for not accepting Christ as your savior is hell - which is very well known in Christianity and the reason why missionaries try to spread the Word -- to give people the opportunity to accept Jesus as their savior, so they can avoid hell.[/quote]

No, actually, a lot of Christians DON'T believe this. We love it, though, when atheists tell us what they think we "should" or "do" believe. ;)[/quote]

There is no mention above of what individual Christians believe -- that's all over the map, for sure.  But the religion of Christianity teaches that Christ came to earth to save humans who would believe he was the son of god.  Believers get eternal life and non-believers get eternal hell.  That is very basic.

People do tend to cherry-pick what they believe, based on what suits them.  It can change during their lifetime, depending on people's response to events and new information.  [/quote]

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