@___TheGOOdWitch Speak truth. God is the truth. The truth is God.
Atheists believe truth is subjective. Therefore there is no truth. As they believe there is no God.
@Machi1Nne Only if she’s not engaged. His punishment was death if she was. The woman faced no punishment and that was 2500 y ago. This was never practiced in Christianity.
Meanwhile the punishment for being raped right now in most Muslim governed countries on:
@ericweinstein@grok Argentina. Zionists are clearing regions of his country. You openly support Zionism. If italians were dehousing people in Oregon and burning down all the Forest would you have the right to be mad at their public supporters?
@athiestboi Not a historian. Pretty sure war and unrest predate both of those books. In fact there has never been less war, or unrest than there is today.
@laoakai@___TheGOOdWitch Untrue. We are savage creatures. The difference is that we own it, and try to be better. You think you are already perfect. You're not.
Not a scholar of scripture. I read that the original transcript does not say “hell” it says “Sheol”. This is translated to hell, outer darkness etc. we don’t know what it means exactly. I confess I am an optimist.
As for weeping and mashing of teeth… is this a reaction under the control of each of us? Does that mean crying and grinding my teeth? That doesn’t sound so bad. If the NDE testimonies of “life review” are accurate most of us will do that.
The most frequent phrase in scripture is for a fact “do not fear”
I don’t know for certain that hell is real or not. I don’t truly believe in it. I don’t tell people to believe or not believe in it. I am certainly a benefactor of people who are highly impulsive/compulsive (65%-75%ish?) believing in it.
I’m not an expert in scripture but as I understand it Jesus gives us one commandment above all others. “Love god with all of your mind body and soul”. The simplest definition of god is “I am the way, the life, the truth”.
Love the journey
Love life
Love the truth
This is not unreasonable.
If I try to do this I believe hell is irrelevant.
You don’t have to believe in hell to believe in god. That being said a significant portion of humanity are not very smart and slaves to their emotions. Fear being a big one. We use hell to trick them into acting like decent human beings. So we don’t have to kill as many of them. 😝 your welcome.