makes me wonder. Would life be fair if there's no heaven and hell? Wouldn't you agree that kids' rapists, murderers and warlords should rot in hell? I can't accept the idea that a poor kid from Africa will have the same after life (no life) as a fat guy who orders a genocide with a fingers' snap!
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Hell being the place you go to be eternally roasted if your judged bad & heaven is where all the good go & sit on clouds was a medieval construct to keep the people in line for their brutal & mercifully short lives. Today, in common with Judaism I believe, that Heaven & Hell is to be with or without Gods love respectively.
The Christian task is to make life fairer, by bringing a bit of heaven to earth, by trying to create a fairer society without seeking any reward for themselves, through helping the poor, disadvantaged physically, mentally & morally to be the best they can. This even goes to standing up to those tyrants as many have & I suspect will again, even to die doing it.
To believe what your doing is right & just, be truly altruistic, One cannot be motivated by a reward in heaven (or punishment in hell!)in my opinion. Heaven for me, would be at best, leaving the world knowing I had made it a little better or knowing that I had at least tried.
If we all left such a legacy, would not the cumulative effect overcome all tyrants & unfairness? A better revenge than notionally roasting them or plucking a harp on a cloud!
I could not have put it better myself, thanks for saving my weary fingers some work!
Well to each is own opinion whether is fact or fictitious. But I’d rather accept that God is real. But whoever feels different is ok. But in my mind I’d rather accept God from the Old an New Testament spiritually that God created the Heavens for a reason than dying and ending down in Hell for No Reason. Not judging we will know when we pass away and will be to late. According to God dead is dead and judgement and vengeance will be God Jesus Christ name. Whether we believe or disbelief. But then again is everyone choice too accept or not to accept. May almighty blessing be with everyone Amen
To hopefully better illustrate my theme above, I would like to put forward the lives & actions of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa & Nelson Mandela as examples. Of course they are not all Christian, but then it does not have a monopoly on morality (nor neither does religion!).
On Heaven, it does give some a help in providing an ultimate goal in their lives, even though I think it should living & acting towards realizing ones values & ideals.
I hope this makes a little more sense, I do offer this up as points for discussion!