When you die you don’t immediately go to heaven or hell, you rot and are dead and that’s all you’ll do until the second coming (like it says in genesis, “from dust you came and to dust you shall return”). The dead know nothing, they feel nothing, they’re dead and won’t be going anywhere or doing anything unless God makes something else happen.
Heaven isn’t just about living forever, it’s mostly about being with God forever-- there’s really nothing to be afraid of about death, it’s just nothing. If you want to be with God forever, why wouldn’t you want to be with Him now? That’s why God gave us free will, so we can choose what we want to do, even if He wants us to do something else. Hell isn’t a place of eternal suffering, it’s just one if two choices: to be with God forever and to be apart from God forever.
(I really wish there were a word I could use to say hell that isn’t hell, it has way too many other connotations about eternal suffering and stuff) (also I’m not meaning “you” as in you specifically, I would say “one” but then it sounds like I’m trying to be posh)
I used to be a Christian so I like to think I know my hermeneutics.
That said, this post just goes to show how wildly a simple book can be interpreted. I wasn’t a Seventh Day Adventist. I was a Calvinist.
It shows just how confident you can be in absolutely nothing.
When you really look into scripture, you come to realize it’s a book filled with words with no real truth outside of some dudes wrote it.
That said, this post just goes to show how wildly a simple book can be interpreted.
Personally, I think it’s pretty clear on most things
(of course there’s room for different interpretations, but the main parts are pretty tricky to mistake if you read them openly)
When you really look into scripture, you come to realize it’s a book filled with words with no real truth outside of some dudes wrote it.
Not really, God told those dudes what to write
When you were a Christian, what did you believe about hell?
God also told me that you’re going to hell for being a Seventh Day Adventist. He inspired me to write it down and everything.
So you got that going for you.
Not really, God told those dudes what to write
I see. So you have an explanation of why God changes his mind about the details, why there are so many variants in the texts, and why some random Letters, Epistles, and Gospels are missing? If God choosr to write a book why is he so bad at the task?
I was gonna say “thanks!” but then I figured you were already saying thanks so I was gonna say “no worries” but then that doesn’t really work either so yeah
If you mean what I think you’re meaning, then yeah pretty much. Everyone has a choice, you can choose to be with God forever or be apart from God forever. Personally, I’m with Him.