Love me or else (Part One) (Where is it now?)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, January 03, 2013, 00:58 (4124 days ago) @ David Turell


> > BM: As for your comments regarding the burning hell and what not, I have not ignored it. I presented scriptural evidence that explained that the 'lake of fire' concept simply meant a second death from which there is no return, which also falls in line with the use of 'fire' throughout the book which is used to reference complete destruction and/or total annihilation, not some eternal torment. After you rejected that evidence, I left it alone because we wind up in the position where no matter what I show you from the text you will take dogma over what is written, so there is no point in hounding on it. 
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> You have quoted Kaballah before. What is wrong with those proposed stages as being the after life? Since none of us really know, and we Jews don't believe in Hell, there are alternative theories.-Nothing at all, really. I just find that the Kaballah tends to be a bit heavy on the mystical/astrological side. I don't disagree with everything that it says by any means, I just approach those things with caution. I've seen too much freaky stuff in my life to not have a sense of caution about mysticism, demonology, magic, etc etc.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.