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Originally Posted by wolfgang  I'm not a Christian, per say but like the questions.
1) I give my soul to something that is Infinite by realizing I am Infinite.
2) Banishment to Hell is really our separation from God (sin). Sin is separation from God. Redemption is realizing we are not separate from God. |
Wolfgang, I am a Christian and I think you pretty much hit it spot on. To expound on the questions a bit more:
1) Part of this is accepting that there is a power higher than yourself. You weren't responsible for the existence of the universe, were you? So how can you be sure that whatever was responsible for the universe isn't worthy of a personal relationship.
2) Hell is a conscious choice. If you separate yourself from God in this world, you get separated from him for eternity. If you cultivate a relationship with him in this world, you get to spend eternity with him. That's pretty much the long and the short of it. Sin is anything that gets in the way of that relationship. Also, contrary to what AL says, hell is still very real and still an integral part of Christian belief. It's not PC to talk about it these days, even in some Christian circles, but it is certainly still there. You CAN, however, throw out the medieval visions of hellfire and brimstone. That's someone's overactive imagination at work. (Dante's Inferno is a work of fiction, after all).