Hell

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PM,

I am here to avoid suffering as much as possible, and provide similar conditions for my wife and family, and hopefully contribute towards the same for society in general.

Why should we view life as suffering? Just because so many of the human race suffer? Isn't that the reason we should all fight to alleviate suffering in the here and now? They are in a kind of living Hell. Shouldn't we focus upon relieving their suffering in pragmatic ways?

Someone once said, 'Hell is other people'. Think about it.

Why do you have to blindly refer to Biblical texts to support your statements? Do they really represent divine inspiration when they sometimes (quite often) promote cruelty and suffering?

I fail to see HELL as anything other than some kind of dualistic balance to HEAVEN, in a number of religions. They are surely human affective concepts devised and used by human beings, often out of fear?

(HELL is also a town in the United States. They have their own website!)

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Originally Posted by Postmaster

The idea that Christ died for us is correct! However the idea that Christ died so that we can sin and get away with it is wrong! We are here to suffer too. That’s what Christianity is all about. The reason we do not need to sacrifice animals is because Christianity did away with the traditions of Judaism it was a religious revolution. This is what is ment by Jesus showed us the light, he showed us that we are in a temporary place and we are constantly fighting the devil on earth and that everything is a mere illusion. These words are divine and this is what is ment by showing us the light

While I wold agree that this particular physical earth is temporary I do not think that it is a "mere illusion". If you start down that track you have to seriously question God's purpose in creating this "illusion". We must also consider the fact that according to traditional Christian faith we will be resurrected in physical bodies of some form (although quite unlike our present ones).So it would seem that God isn't as uncomfortable with our physical nature as many of us are ( the incarnation is fairly strong evidence of that!).