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

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, January 02, 2013, 17:40 (4344 days ago) @ dhw

One common thread of miscommunication in this seems to be in the definition of an afterlife. To me "after life" lends itself to the concept of something other than life, some other form of existence than what we would call life. In that sense, no, I do not believe in an "afterlife" as such that all people must go to. If you include resurrection, which to me is equivalent to resuscitation, or a return to the state of living, then yes, I suppose I do believe in an after life. I guess the language barrier strikes again. -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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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.