Oh Dear.
OK, Hi Anita! Good Morning Everyone!
OK, to me Atheist means you don’t believe in God and Agnostic means that you think something might be out there, but you don’t want to define it. Anita, I never lumped you into angry Atheists in my mind! One of my neighbors is Atheist, but she is not angry. She doesn’t think about religion at all!
And guess what? I don’t believe in hell (BOO!) LOL. In the OT the Hebrews named it SHEOL, meaning the literal place you go when you die (death/the earth). There are only a couple verses that might allude to fire and brimstone. But guess where that concept came from? The artists from Europe in the Middle Ages!!
I look to the Orthodox Jews, frankly, as my clue to what they meant by what’s in the OT. If they don’t believe in hell, then neither did the ancient Israelites in Jesus’ time, most likely!
Yes, I had a spiritual experience. I did not have a mental experience however, meaning I did not get a download of what all Christians (might) believe!
Glenda, yes, Jesus wanted his disciples to spread the good news, but dear, you are going about it ALL WRONG!! If anything, you are turning people AWAY from Christianity!!
Blessings.
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