Quote: (04-25-2019 01:41 PM)loremipsum Wrote:
Quote: (04-25-2019 12:13 PM)sterling_archer Wrote:
Quote: (04-25-2019 11:32 AM)Dr. Howard Wrote:
Bigger than us, both good and evil. That's something that agnostics seem to gloss over, that if there is "something, or somethings out there" those things are probably good or indifferent. What about if the bigger things out there are also evil and actively looking for us?
It just seems to me that to most people it is impossible to comprehend notion that there might be a true archetypal and primordial Evil. They always think in terms God yes/no, evil happens, but never is there a bad shit out there actively seeking to subjugate and destroy Good?
Now, when you put these things into perspective, is it really wonder that people dismiss Pizzagate or Satanic Hollywood? Of course not, because they simply cannot comprehend that there might be outlets, from which Evil emanates.
Yes! Even in Christianity seems like many people think Satan is someone who takes chills and takes your soul if you don't believe in Christ, instead of seeing it as a proactive primordial soul eater who is doing whatever he can to destroy souls.
One of the biggest fallacies in Christianity is that Satan rules in hell. John Milton even gets it wrong in "Paradise Lost." God is everywhere -- even in hell. God rules everywhere -- even in hell.
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A breath of relief is usually heard when someone declares, “Hell is a symbol for separation from God.” To be separated from God for eternity is no great threat to the impenitent person. The ungodly want nothing more than to be separated from God. Their problem in hell will not be separation from God, it will be the presence of God that will torment them. In hell, God will be present in the fullness of His divine wrath. He will be there to exercise His just punishment of the damned. They will know Him as an all-consuming fire.
No matter how we analyze the concept of hell it often sounds to us as a place of cruel and unusual punishment. If, however, we can take any comfort in the concept of hell, we can take it in the full assurance that there will be no cruelty there. It is impossible for God to be cruel. Cruelty involves inflicting a punishment that is more severe or harsh than the crime. Cruelty in this sense is unjust. God is incapable of inflicting an unjust punishment. The Judge of all the earth will surely do what is right. No innocent person will ever suffer at His hand.
https://www.ligonier.org/blog/hell/