freelight
Eclectic Theosophist
Lets dive into this again.......
Lets dive into this again.......
My first post to you here stands
We would note again that 'heaven' or 'hell' are conditions of mind, states of consciousness. 'Hell' is the reaping of the sins and harm you have caused others coming back to torment you, not some punishment from a 'God' somewhere in the sky. Consider universal laws and conditions of consciousness, beyond the religious formats and nomenclature.
So, threats of hell don't go very far....since all souls reap what they sow anyways,...its a universal law (karma).
You also have hundreds of different religious denominations who use the Bible as their rule book,...who interpret or translate portions of it differently, not to mention all the 'versions' you can choose from out there. So a dogmatic claim to have the one and only true translation of scripture or 'interpretation' of the Bible doesn't go very far in the sea of diversity out there, since you are but riding one wave among many other waves in the vast ocean :surf:
Back to your thread-title, yes...'hell' is real, so long as you make your own hell by the quality or character of your thoughts, words and actions. Making hell-judgments based on doctrine though, is a bit more nebulous.
Lets dive into this again.......
Still standing firm on what I said. Hell bound if any other way. It's only one Church and one Doctrine. All these other doctrines on here are of other gods. Not the God that is written about in the Scriptures. But some other gods that take a little here and there from the Scriptures.
My first post to you here stands
We would note again that 'heaven' or 'hell' are conditions of mind, states of consciousness. 'Hell' is the reaping of the sins and harm you have caused others coming back to torment you, not some punishment from a 'God' somewhere in the sky. Consider universal laws and conditions of consciousness, beyond the religious formats and nomenclature.
So, threats of hell don't go very far....since all souls reap what they sow anyways,...its a universal law (karma).
You also have hundreds of different religious denominations who use the Bible as their rule book,...who interpret or translate portions of it differently, not to mention all the 'versions' you can choose from out there. So a dogmatic claim to have the one and only true translation of scripture or 'interpretation' of the Bible doesn't go very far in the sea of diversity out there, since you are but riding one wave among many other waves in the vast ocean :surf:
Back to your thread-title, yes...'hell' is real, so long as you make your own hell by the quality or character of your thoughts, words and actions. Making hell-judgments based on doctrine though, is a bit more nebulous.