Hell is not an obsession with Christianity. Hell is a choice. How can you make the choice of heaven and eternal life without discussing and making a willful choice about Hell?
Hell requires the denial of Heaven. Heaven, requires the denial of Hell! Hell represents a willful desire to disobey keeping the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus the Christ. Heaven represents a spiritual marriage in which you keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus, the Christ. You cannot declare one without rejecting the other. Unfortunately, there are many superficial Christians that believe more in religion, and never study the actual word of God, so they have a false impression of what Christianity is, and how it is to be applied in one’s life. Christians, by definition, live Holy. Holiness Requires [Faithful Obedience]. [Faithful Obedience] is keeping the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus the Christ. By not living a faithful and obedient life, you are guaranteed hell. That’s not an obsession with hell, that is the word of God.
Christianity dictates, there are only two places to go in this life; Heaven or Hell. I challenge anyone to show me in the Holy Bible that that’s simple truth has changed.
Upon death perhaps one's spirit or consciousness is — finally! — 100 percent liberated from the purely cerebrally based anxiety, agitation and contempt that may have actually blighted much of its physical existence. Therefore, free of the corporeal shell, the soul may be wondering, ‘Why was I so angry, so much of the time? Oh, the things I said!... I really hope I didn't do damage while I was there’. ...
A few decades ago, I learned from two Latter Day Saints missionaries that their church’s doctrine teaches that the biblical ‘lake of fire’ meant for the truly wicked actually represents an eternal spiritual burning of guilt over one’s corporeal misdeeds. Bemused, I thought and said: “That’s it? Our punishment is our afterlife's guilty conscience?”
During the many years since then, however, I’ve discovered just how formidable intense guilt can be. I’ve also considered and decided that our brain's structural/chemical flaws are what we basically are while our soul is confined within our physical, bodily form. The human soul may be inherently good on its own; but trapped within the physical body, notably the corruptible brain, oftentimes the soul’s purity may not be able to shine through.
Thus, upon the multi-murderer's physical death, not only would they be 100 percent liberated from the anger and hate that blighted their physical life; their spirit or consciousness would also be forced to exist with the presumably unwanted awareness of the immense amount of needless suffering they personally had caused.
Then again, maybe the human soul goes where it belongs or where it feels comfortable and right — be it hell’, ‘heaven’, somewhere in between, etcetera. This concept was suggested in a very interesting 1987 radio-broadcast sermon titled “A Bird’s Eye View of Hell”, given by a renowned preacher. I wrote a piece of fiction titled Not What It Was Supposed To Be [originally called That Other Place] that's largely themed on this premise.
Hell is not an obsession with Christianity. Hell is a choice. How can you make the choice of heaven and eternal life without discussing and making a willful choice about Hell?
Hell requires the denial of Heaven. Heaven, requires the denial of Hell! Hell represents a willful desire to disobey keeping the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus the Christ. Heaven represents a spiritual marriage in which you keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus, the Christ. You cannot declare one without rejecting the other. Unfortunately, there are many superficial Christians that believe more in religion, and never study the actual word of God, so they have a false impression of what Christianity is, and how it is to be applied in one’s life. Christians, by definition, live Holy. Holiness Requires [Faithful Obedience]. [Faithful Obedience] is keeping the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus the Christ. By not living a faithful and obedient life, you are guaranteed hell. That’s not an obsession with hell, that is the word of God.
Christianity dictates, there are only two places to go in this life; Heaven or Hell. I challenge anyone to show me in the Holy Bible that that’s simple truth has changed.
Something to think about…
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Upon death perhaps one's spirit or consciousness is — finally! — 100 percent liberated from the purely cerebrally based anxiety, agitation and contempt that may have actually blighted much of its physical existence. Therefore, free of the corporeal shell, the soul may be wondering, ‘Why was I so angry, so much of the time? Oh, the things I said!... I really hope I didn't do damage while I was there’. ...
A few decades ago, I learned from two Latter Day Saints missionaries that their church’s doctrine teaches that the biblical ‘lake of fire’ meant for the truly wicked actually represents an eternal spiritual burning of guilt over one’s corporeal misdeeds. Bemused, I thought and said: “That’s it? Our punishment is our afterlife's guilty conscience?”
During the many years since then, however, I’ve discovered just how formidable intense guilt can be. I’ve also considered and decided that our brain's structural/chemical flaws are what we basically are while our soul is confined within our physical, bodily form. The human soul may be inherently good on its own; but trapped within the physical body, notably the corruptible brain, oftentimes the soul’s purity may not be able to shine through.
Thus, upon the multi-murderer's physical death, not only would they be 100 percent liberated from the anger and hate that blighted their physical life; their spirit or consciousness would also be forced to exist with the presumably unwanted awareness of the immense amount of needless suffering they personally had caused.
Then again, maybe the human soul goes where it belongs or where it feels comfortable and right — be it hell’, ‘heaven’, somewhere in between, etcetera. This concept was suggested in a very interesting 1987 radio-broadcast sermon titled “A Bird’s Eye View of Hell”, given by a renowned preacher. I wrote a piece of fiction titled Not What It Was Supposed To Be [originally called That Other Place] that's largely themed on this premise.