Do you believe in the popular idea of hell?

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Yes, I do believe this is true

No, I don't believe this

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That there's a place whose inhabitants will be on fire and extreme pain and it will never end for them. It'll go on like that forever and ever, no breaks or anything. Just extreme pain and suffering.
And every single human that reaches a certain level of maturity/intelligence to where they can be held accountable for their actions deserves to go there.
(I suppose some people believe that even mentally disabled people and little children, the people who can't ask for forgiveness, still go to hell. I don't think that's the popular idea though.)
But only through belief in Jesus, asking for forgiveness, and following what he says will get us mercy and have us be saved from this place.

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NativePortlander1970

My Dad explained it to me this way, what kind of sick and twisted deity would dare to send those it considers its children to eternal fire? That is not one I would want to worship.

Blazer420 · 36-40, M

@NativePortlander1970 that's how I feel. People will say that God doesn't send us there, we choose it. I don't agree. The criminal doesn't choose to go to jail, the judge sends him there. They may have chosen to break the law even though they knew the consequences, but they didn't choose to get sent away.
That's different though in a way because criminals can see a jail and even visit there and talk to other criminals and know they'll end up there if they do wrong. Only way people have seen hell is in visions or dreams. You can't visit hell in real life, nor can you talk to anyone who has supposedly been there other then the people who claimed to see it via the means I mentioned above.

NativePortlander1970

@Blazer420 Exactly, those that have had "visions of dreams" about it are because of their religious brainwashing about it, they're hallucinating their fears.

Blazer420 · 36-40, M

@NativePortlander1970 definitely, you can tell their take cause a lot of them aren't even biblical lol. They talk about being tortured by demons but I'm pretty sure the Bible never says that God has demons in hell torturing humans.

NativePortlander1970

@Blazer420 It doesn't, demons weren't even a thing until Dante's Inferno was published during the medieval era.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@NativePortlander1970 Finally, a conservative who isn't also a Christian nationalist with no clue what's actually in the Bible.

NativePortlander1970

@LordShadowfire I have read the bible cover to cover many more times than the average believer, from the age of 7 to 16, no thanks to an uber religious (now retired) church secretary mother. Properly read, the bible is the main cause of Atheism-Isaac Asomov.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@NativePortlander1970 Read it three times myself as a challenge to myself when I was a Christian, and holy hell, the stuff that was there and the stuff that was completely absent. 😆

NativePortlander1970

@LordShadowfire You will notice no preacher will read out loud the story of Japtheth and his vow, or how Elijah set 42 bears on a group of boys that ridiculed his baldness, or Isiah 45:7 where "god" said "he" created evil to punish "his people".