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Dies for your sins (feddit.de)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean technically, if you really read about hell in the bible, it's only the only place god is not. I mean it's described as an awful lake of fire and so on, but that's just because the people who were reading it needed to hear that the people persecuting them were going to get theirs.

But yeah, what you said is what most people believe, I just think it's funny that the word for Hell when Jesus talks about it is actually Gahanna which is the place outside Jerusalem where they burned all their refuse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Essentially: "If you're a trash person, you'll be thrown out and burned on the trash heap. But if you love me, that proves you're not a trash person and it's the only way to prove that."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

More like if you're a non believer you go to a place that I choose to ignore, but since I'm the best, most magnificent being in all existence you would be making an awful choice. It would be akin to being in a trash heap simply because I'm not there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, there's actually a lot about the faith that is purely metaphysical, but had to be described as something that people who lack abstract thinking could understand. Which is where we got the Lake of Fire from. Remember Dante's Inferno is a novel, it was written by an edge Lord, it is not official church doctrine even if pop culture movies about hell will draw on it for inspiration.