"We're entering into a multi-reserve world, and Bitcoin has a seat at the table." Heavy weights, sauna, and cold plunge, with a side of logic and reason.
The number of Christians defending eternal conscious torment (ECT), in the wake of @KirkCameron's comments, is both sad but curious.
It’s sad because of:
(a) the psychological damage that ECT has done to people throughout history,
(b) the strong historical, philosophical, and moral arguments for annihilationism and / or universal reconciliation (UR); and,
(c) my personal experience of being instinctively drawn towards a God who operates with UR, while wanting nothing to do with one who operates with ECT.
But it’s curious because of the why. Why do so many Christians defend ECT? Well, there’s several reasons, and theologian David Bentley Hart spends time examining them in That All Shall Be Saved (a highly recommended read).
One reason I’m entertaining is a sort of hatred against the self and others that develops, when one fails to overcome the fear that ECT brings, and instead submits to it. Perhaps when one does this, and then is later confronted with the idea that ECT isn’t true, maybe this assaults the ego, as it reveals a character defect. Or maybe it reveals to the person that the reasons for which they accepted Christianity were faulty. Or it’s some type of Stockholm syndrome. I’m not sure.
Now to anyone reading this, who has struggled with ECT fears, the good news is the arguments for Universal Reconciliation are much, much stronger, than you might suspect, especially if you were raised in a fundamentalist environment and never seriously explored the alternatives. Again, David Bentley Hart’s That All Shall Be Saved is highly recommended, if you want to start this exploration.
And ironically, I don’t even consider myself a Christian. But I might very well be in love with the God who, in the end, redeems all who ever lived back to Him.
@TGrogan268173@god_wrestle
#annihilationism #ECT #hell #universalreconciliation #Christianity
@PeterSchiff@saylor Fair enough. Mate you've been slamming on Bitcoin for a decade, and the price is higher than when you first started. My bet is the same will be true ten years from now.
Word of the Day,
Father;
A father is a male parent.
A title of respect for a priest or religious leader.
An originator, founder, or creator of something (e.g., the father of modern democracy).
A term of respect for an older man.
To All Fathers; I honor you, salute you and thank you for being champions, protectors, providers, teachers.
To those men who set the standards by which others live their lives by the examples they set for others and the sacrifices made for the future of humanity, these are the men that father our children and our society.
To my own father, Curtis Louis Cardone; I lost you at 9, not knowing you well, never having a deep conversation, never really not knowing you, I thank you for everything you did to make my life, my mother's and siblings live's such that we were given a foudation that enabled me to build a world for myself and my family he would have marveled over and been immensely proud of, I do hope.
Thank you for your sacrifice, your dedication, and for all the things you did and went through that I will never know about, sir, I deeply admire you.
Gary T. Cardone