Heaven VS Hell! Where does that leave us?

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

Flicker, I not going to post the following without letting you know first that this is merely an exercise.

What I meant by that was, there are people in this world that want to control us by fear. The ultimate fear is an unseen fear that, "if you don't do what I say you're going to burn in hell" is a great way to scare people. 

Yeah, an eternity in Hell sure sounds scary to me and fear is a great control method.

Man/woman/mankind has evil in its own heart, brought to us by the evil that we are taught. We just continue to pass it along.

Sure, but "evil we are taught", that part seems questionable when it is a dog eat dog world and humans are on top of that food chain. Then there is this "born in sin" idea that we will never get out of without the blood of Christ. The original sin is a hard one to justify if God was so loving and understanding, esp. when God blessed us and saw that it was "good" in his eyes. We have a sinful nature to be sure, but I believe that you could use the phrase our base nature or true nature in place of sinful nature in a sentence.

Sure, God is to "blame," but only if you're looking for 'someone to blame.'
Sure, it's His creation.
It got messed up, due to evil forces.

Then admittedly the forces of nature are evil forces, or at least those natural forces that created our inborn sinful nature are. Who created and controls all the forces of nature?

Would you still love a God that put you through hard times and suffering to break you free from this curse? If you knew that this suffering, this experience is absolutely necessary to move onto the next level (the new heaven and earth), would you still see that this is done because of benevolence, or could you see that all of this is done through love?

Suppose for a moment that God never allowed such a curse to befall his beloved children? What if suffering is not necessary to grow, learn and evolve? If either of these are valid possibilities than how could I possibly see my suffering as loving and benevolent? It sounds like a controlling, sadistic and abusive relationship as described.

We are eternal beings. Eternal lessons take longer than 100 years, or less. I would think.

If we are eternal beings and not mere mortals who are born to die.





I'm spent. There you go, have at it.

Wait, we have the Eucharist, the cannibalistic consumption of Christ's flesh and blood, and his crucifixion with the whipping and all. Man that is some fetish. Not sure why I thought of all that.