Hell Bound
So did Jesus really die for everyone? Did he die for the unbeliever? My detestable, eternal sin is this: I don't believe the bible god exists. So when I die and discover myself standing before God Almighty, and find not my name written in the Lamb's book of life, I will be sent to eternal hell. So where is Jesus then? Where is the cross? Where is Christ's forgiveness? Where is the great depth of God's love? Where is the Father's abundant grace and mercy?
Nowhere to be found. Insidious wrath and judgment have taken their place.
My crime is this: I honestly, deep down, don't believe that God exists. How is that a crime worth eternal punishment? How is that a crime at all? If I knew I had a father like God who loved me and wanted to take care of me for all eternity, I'd accept him in an instant. However, I can't make myself believe something my brain finds unbelievable. I can't will myself to believe anymore than you, the reader, can make yourself believe that our Creators are actually an ancient alien race ready to make their second coming - if you don't believe and repent they're gonna do some nasty eternal probes on YOU! But they really do love you!
Hell is a scare tactic. Belief as the key to the in-club of heaven is an atrocious human lie taken from a book written by ignorant, superstitious primates.
The great Robert G. Ingersoll reverberates, "The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge. This idea testifies that our remote ancestors were the lowest beasts. Only from dens, lairs, and caves, only from mouths filled with cruel fangs, only from hearts of fear and hatred, only from the conscience of hunger and lust, only from the lowest and most debased could come this cruel, heartless and bestial of all dogmas.
...I do not believe this doctrine; neither do you. If you did, you could not sleep one moment. Any man who believes it, and has within his breast a decent, throbbing heart, will go insane. A man who believes that doctrine and does not go insane has the heart of a snake, and the conscience of a hyena."
Nowhere to be found. Insidious wrath and judgment have taken their place.
My crime is this: I honestly, deep down, don't believe that God exists. How is that a crime worth eternal punishment? How is that a crime at all? If I knew I had a father like God who loved me and wanted to take care of me for all eternity, I'd accept him in an instant. However, I can't make myself believe something my brain finds unbelievable. I can't will myself to believe anymore than you, the reader, can make yourself believe that our Creators are actually an ancient alien race ready to make their second coming - if you don't believe and repent they're gonna do some nasty eternal probes on YOU! But they really do love you!
Hell is a scare tactic. Belief as the key to the in-club of heaven is an atrocious human lie taken from a book written by ignorant, superstitious primates.
The great Robert G. Ingersoll reverberates, "The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge. This idea testifies that our remote ancestors were the lowest beasts. Only from dens, lairs, and caves, only from mouths filled with cruel fangs, only from hearts of fear and hatred, only from the conscience of hunger and lust, only from the lowest and most debased could come this cruel, heartless and bestial of all dogmas.
...I do not believe this doctrine; neither do you. If you did, you could not sleep one moment. Any man who believes it, and has within his breast a decent, throbbing heart, will go insane. A man who believes that doctrine and does not go insane has the heart of a snake, and the conscience of a hyena."
posted by R.K. at 1:05 PM
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