I've read the bible many times and think it's dumb.  Will I burn in hell?
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No the bible is nothing more then a book, based mostly on fiction but I am sure there is a hint of truth to it. For example I believe someone with the name Jesus probably did exist and was a really great man, but that is it, he was not the son of some God, but as time passed the story took twists and turns and now comes to us in this ridiculous fictional book we refer to as the bible. The bible was actually written in a language where punctuation did not exist so adding periods and commas here and there can corrupt a meaning of sentence entirely.
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Nope the bible says that the first hell hades will be thrown into the lake of fire with satan and all of his angels along with anyone whos name is not written in the book of life.\nThe bible says that it is forever, your flesh will never burn up or get eaten up although it will burn and get eaten, there is no end, if there was then it would be bearable.
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The bible should never be considered anything but a work of fiction.\nEdit: I'd also like to point something else out. A lot of people are making the statement that God threatening with the possibility of hell is like a parent warning a child against a blazing fire. For one, the act of burning a child, though perhaps practical, is very cruel and sadistic. Kind loving parents would take a more practical and less cruel approach: simply do all that is necessary to keep the child away from the fire. There are numerous other logical fallacies in this analogy, but I would hope that they are painfully obvious to anyone intelligent enough to consider religion critically.
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Choose what you want. Is it the logical one, or one that pictures God as cruel?\n\nRev 20:14; 21:8. Hades and death, fornicators, murderers, those practicing spiritism are hurled into the lake of fire, and sulfur. This lake of fire means 2nd death.\n\nEccl 9:5,6. The dead knows nothing, no knowledge, nor wisdom in sheol.\n\nIf you want logic: that lake of fire and sulfur means total destruction. Just like throwing paper or wood into fire--they are gone.It is really absurd--or senseless--to say that death and hades will be tortured forever in that lake of fire.\n\nNow if you want to picture God as cruel, just reverse the sentence in Rev 20:14. It will read like: 2nd death means the lake of fire and sulfur. Add to that Jesus parable re. Lazarus and the rich man. And you have an idea why preachers can frighten you with eternal hell-fire torment.\n\nTop that by calling those who disagree as HERETICS, or Cult members, or Infidels (if you are a Muslim)\n\nTo encourage others to inflict punishment on disbelievers deliver a stirring sermon: 'those who die as martyrs, get 72 virgins in heaven'.\n\nNow, do you get the idea of heaven, or hell-fire doctrine?\n\ngood night.
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Nice book. (If you’re a sadist)\n\n\n(edit)\nWhy would the old testament be in the book if this god decided to change his cruel, voilent and hatefull ways. Then you shouldn't present the old testament to me. If I tell you "Hey man, here is the word or GOD, the creator of all the universe! He is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-present!!!! ..But why then is there a part in his word that doesn't apply to our time?? I thought he is all-present which would mean his word will be timeless.
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God hates a lot of things. He is quite vengeful and jealous. But I believe some people take the bible too seriously. For example, the bible says,"Honor thy mother and thy father.". An abused kid who's family is over-religious will take this as,"Obey like a slave." They won't do anything about. If you are so concerned about the bible and who's going to hell, have you not read the passage about who gets to cast the first stone? So if you are so concerned about Miscegenation, homosexuality, or inbred souls, then you should read Corinthians. \n\nBut just remember, God gave every one free will. The Bible contradicts itself a lot. So maybe you should question it a little bit.
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not true, read the Bible especially Revelation. God made Hell and Dante
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i've read the bible 5 times in 3 different translations.\n\nnow im an athiest.
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That list of all the Bible parts listed as "the thinking of God" is the most ignorant thing I've ever heard.\nBible is full of contradictions. \nThe Ancient Testament says also that killing in the name of God is right.\nIs good also to have sex with your daughter or your son.\n\nChrist never said anything of that. We are Cristians.\n\nYou should study some antropology before telling other people that they're living in sin. In ancient times it was a shame to give away your sperma without having a child.\n\nLove is never a sin. Sex connected to love is never a sin. Sex is not a sin.\nVIOLENCE is sin!
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your first rule of reading the bible you need to accept that it does not make sense and it is full of contradictions\nit is only a book of fairy tales
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knowledge and understanding isnt a good thing according to christians. the more u read and understand the bible, the more flaws and contradictions u see in it. christians look down on people who know the bible. theres a reason they cant answer half the questions posted on here with answers, so they resort to name calling and condemning to hell.
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Contrary to what a lot of Englightened people on here will have you think, the Bible isn't just for scholars or spinners. If it is true, the Bible is God's Word to man, then I think it is safe to take the book at face value assuming that most people were quite illiterate at the time of its first use. \n\nGod would not make his only word to man undicipherable to all, save the rich intellects of the world. This seems like the biggest, most obvious trap, out there! The rich have the key to salvation, but of course they do! The rich Europeans, to take it even further and make it better! Give me a flippin break. This is getting stupid.\n\nThis is one of the major "flaws" in the entire idea of the Bible being God's Word. Does God not know that most people on Earth are hardly literate, can't understand Hebrew or Aramic, and by inspiring a 3,000 plus page text, he has put the salvation of nearly everyone on earth in the hands of a very few who can actually READ who came from Europe and were bent on ruling the world at all cost??! Impossible for God to do such a thing to 90% of the rest of his own creation!\n\nSo, read the Bible just as it comes to you. Yes, God asked God why he forsakened himself. That is the surface interpretation, no spin. Unless your parents could afford to send you to private school, where they teach you how to spin, I mean interpret the Bible, or unless you were born into Christianity where there are churches all around you that teach these spin techniques, you would never know that when you read page 2,198 in the Bible, that it is ACTUALLY refering to page 1,328 which REALLY means what page 498 said in the third paragraph referring to page 20.\n\nThe logical or face understanding of the text, is that God called out to himself(strange indeed), in a manner that seemed  much like begging of himself to help himself. It's ridiculous.
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lesson No. \n\n1- i am going to hell, irrespective of which religion i believe in (because the other one will condemn me to hell )\n\n2- I need to be saved immediately\n\n3- I have to read *****  to know the truth, \n\n4- I have to burn all my science GK books, as these are crap and read something like alice in wonderland story about God\n\n5 - I should be suspended immediately for not accepting they are right.\n\n6- I have to learn to be peaceful in the shower of insults, hatered, false propaganda in the name of religions\n\n7 Last but not least - I should keep away from Jim darwin :))
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I would have to say no. When I was a child, I went to church, I read the bible, and was very into it. Im now 21, a philosophy major, and have no belief in God. It is kind of hard to believe now, I mean if you look at science and genesis next to eachother, Genesis is just garbage. Think about it, talking snakes and magical fruit... also plain white goats that reproduce and have striped offspring because of a stirped olive tree branch that sat in front of them. \n\nFaith is the belief in something without proof. When you find your proof that debunks God, faith dies. And no person can raise the dead. If you think that you are a re-believer, then you never completly threw out God in the first place, kind of like Decartes (philosopher).\n\nA good book on this is "Scepticism Inc." by Bo Flower. It is an increadable read, narrated by a shoping cart trolly from the future, and it is a fight between religon and athiesm. REMEMBER... When reason and faith come to clash, tis' faith that must go a smash.
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yes but my views have changed. The bible is an amazing story that offers insights into the spiritual development of man. I'm not a christian but i believe there are many great lessons to be learned from this book. The biggest hoaxes of all time is 1)God is a man in the sky that favors christians and sends you to hell if you don't get your weekly quota of church in.2) Jesus was a whiteman who was the son of god. 3) you need to go to church and pray to worship god. \nGod is individual and god is everything. The good and the bad make god just as the teacher and the taught make up the teaching.
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I think it went much further than Gay.  Much of the old writing were of a vengeful God. One whose name you could not mention.  Jesus freed us from the old testament.  Beside Jesus told us to love your brother, sounds pretty perverted to me.  But also pretty open minded.  His first invite to heaven was a theif wasn't it. If God is good and the Devil is evil both without the other concept in them aren't they equals in some sense. Hell was in the times of the Bible only a burning pit for the evilest of criminals outside the gates of Jerusalem not someplace of eternal damnation
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ive read a few of them. they are good books for entertainment. but of course you shouldnt believe what it says. thats just the opinion of the authors veiw of what will happen. the holy bible is the only book anyone should believe.