10-13-2016, 11:19 AM
(10-13-2016, 09:57 AM)Matt_Crimson Wrote: In all honesty I have to say I agree with you here. I've seen people use the argument that people believe in God because a belief in God gives them comfort in knowing there's life after death.Depending on your beliefs, Hell may not be eternal.
If anything a belief in God makes the afterlife more terrifying because if you believe in both God and hell, then that means there's a possibility you can go to hell. That to me is not comforting, nor soothing to think about and actually worries me more than just not existing. Believing in God creates a life long struggle to make it to heaven so that you can live in peace rather than live in hell. If I didn't believe in God, and thought there was non-existence after death, then what would there be to fear? Dying and having to stand before an omnipotent being that will judge you for your sins is way more scarier than just dying and becoming nothing.
The Gospel of Judas (Gnostic gospel) suggests that you only go to Hell long enough to atone for your sins and then Jesus comes to take you to Heaven.
I'm sure you could understand why the architectects of societies didn't really want that to get around.
People would be like "I can do what I like. I'll only be in Hell for a little while".
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