Nails, I'm not a Christian.. by any stretch of the word. I just spent my childhood being completely devoted to it. I believe in the existence of divine beings, but my understanding doesn't fit very well with Christian concepts... and Christianity is too contradictory for me to follow anyhow. I try to find things that make sense to me, and because Christianity as a whole doesn't make much sense to me, I don't go for it.
Keeper, I'm not going to go look through YOUR holy book to find things for you. If you really care, you can take the time to look it up yourself. I have no real need to educate you on your own religion.
Ne-Yo, I didn't say anything at all indicating that Keeper should look up hell online. I said he should get a concordance and look up "hell," "damnation," etc. A concordance is a book that lists all places where a particular word shows up in a book... so a concordance of the Bible would basically have every word that occurs in the Bible along with a reference to where it can be found. He could very easily look up "hell" and get the scriptures that use the word. Sometimes you have to use the different words like "damnation," "fiery pit," or whatever else you can think of to find the most references, but it's not a difficult process. I think any Christian who wants to be able to use the Bible scripture to back up what he/she is saying should have a concordance and use it often.
I've also read the Bible, smarty-pants, and that certainly doesn't make you or me an expert.
I also didn't say anything about what hell is supposed to be. I simply stated that Keeper should look at a concordance to see what the Bible really does say about hell because he said the Bible doesn't talk about hell AT ALL. That seems a little off to me, so I thought he should go double check his claim.
Do I really care about what, exactly, the Bible has to say about hell? No, not particularly... I'm not a Christian, find the concept of hell rather ridiculous, and don't feel a need to know for the benefit of anyone else, so no, I don't really care. I also don't feel the desire to go through the entire Bible, focusing on Revelations, and coming up with every possible reference to hell, then using it to discuss what hell would really be like... I don't believe in it.. the discussion is pretty futile to me.
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