robdot wrote on May 4, 2021, 09:48:
The very concept of inherited sin is immoral. The idea that you worship a god who sends people to hell for the deeds of their distant ancestors show how sick and twisted religion is.
robdot wrote on May 4, 2021, 09:48:
The very concept of inherited sin is immoral. The idea that you worship a god who sends people to hell for the deeds of their distant ancestors show how sick and twisted religion is.
Hellfire, or a place of eternal torment, is not in the Bible. The concept of a place where people go after they die to be tortured and burned for eternity for evil deeds originated with ancient Babylon. That, along with other pagan beliefs, spread throughout the earth after God confused the languages at the tower of Babel. The paganism practiced by the Romans was no less different. However, Constantine made Christianity Rome's state religion in the 4th century. After being given the position of the pagan-practicing priests, the Christian priests started incorporating aspects of Roman paganism. One of those was transforming Saturnalia (a festival to Saturn) into Christ Mass.
Here's what the Bible says happens when people die.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5,10) "The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all . . . Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your might, for there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave, where you are going."
Further, notice God's reaction to this dreadful pagan practice.
"'For the people of Judah have done what is bad in my eyes,' declares Jehovah. 'They have set up their disgusting idols in the house that bears my name to defile it. They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom. To burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, something that I had not commanded and that had never even come into my heart.'" (Jeremiah 7:30,31)
A person might ask if burning sons and daughters in a fire had never come into God's heart, then how could God ever create a place that tortures and burns people for eternity? The obvious answer is he hasn't. God is love and justice, and sending people to such a people is neither loving nor just. Hellfire is a pagan belief and practice, and the churches of Christendom who teach it teach lies.
Edited for clarityThis comment was edited on May 5, 2021, 21:25.
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