I am not going to be getting into this topic due to the fact that I am not on my computer enough to bother, but I would like to say one thing about what Astreja said. Not believing in hell simply because of the fact that it may produce "submission" by a person is not remotely logical. Imagine a rebelious teenager who didn't believe in prison because he didn't want to believe there was an actual place where people who disobey the law are sent to be locked up for their crimes. So he says, "Honestly, I don't believe in prison. I think it's just a place people with suits and badges made up to scare people into submitting to the law." Until, of course, it is too late and he has been "locked up" due to his ignorance and disobdience, both products of the lack of concern for authority; that is, at least, any authority which condemns what the person themself does.
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Isaiah 55:9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." |