I love your answer, but I have to say, I believe God is everywhere, yet there is still some hell...it's like darkness is the absence of light-- the light defines the darkness, and visa versa-- it is how living humans see; so even where there is God, there is a hell to remind us and define both by contrast.
So, you are saying that what justice there is in this present world is
all there is ! Then Hitler, for example is not paying for his atrocities !
Or do you even know who Hitler was?
Adolf Hitler was a german chancellor who during world war 2 killed millions of jewish people because he blamed them for causing germany to use WWI. I dont believe in heaven, i dont believe in hell. I believe in living life while you can because life is short and you only live once.
a real place that many people refuse to believe exists and so continue to live for selfish ends without acknowledging the Creator and His purposes for us all.
don't know about that new spin by Shuckman, but that is not a new concept. It is an ancient Buddhist concept (and maybe even before that), of LIFE NOW, in this moment, period. "There is nothing new under this sun." (~Ecclesiastes-- a book, btw, that was most controversial and almost didn't make it into the first Bible.) There is nothing new here, except new profits from out-of-copyright truth. But that's OK, imo, if it helps-- truth needs repeating to audiences who may otherwise not hear it...
Do you believe in the Jewish concept of Hell or the Christian? From what I read before the Jewish concept of Hell "The absence of God" seems like the more likely translation.
"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." ~Joseph Campbell
We humans exist to aspire to something more. Once we got those frontal lobes, (which are relatively very new), without the unknown--that which "transcends all levels of intellectual thought"-- without that we are bereft of purpose. It is our given nature to pursue knowledge, and thereby strive to 'raise the bar' of our lifetime's existence, esp. for our children. Genuine theologians & legitimate scientists agree: our concept of God, our observations of Nature and our pursuit of Science are not mutually exclusive-- they all exist without contradiction.
No matter how far out or how far in we go, there is something further outward or inward that we cannot see. There is always prior or "first cause", if you like, which can be called God. The name or concept of God or unknown first cause doesn't change that which we can prove, any more than it changes that which we canNOT prove, EXCEPT to remind us that we do not know everything.
There is a humility that comes with not knowing, which arises from our own actions by design, and which opens all paths to truth: By our yielding acceptance to the unknown, the way reveals itself. Some ppl name the unknown God. As all names come, after the fact, that ad hoc naming does not contradict and may even facilitate original design, by opening for us the way of all things, no matter how we name them.
On the other hand, if one is not open to unknown, be they promoting God or science, if they cannot accept or yield to the unknown, in this moment, then they have trapped themselves in a little earthly short term box, damned never to progress-- that is another definition of hell.
in my understanding, (which is small), of Hebrew teachings, there may be something akin to hell here, but it's among the living and of our own making, and not referring to any 'afterlife' condition. The word "hell" in the time and place of the Christian Bible was literally a designation of the local garbage dump, where ppl took their trash to be burned. (Metaphorically open to interpretation. But that's what the word meant literally, and it was here on earth among the living.)
correct your error if you are wrong.
And if it is wanting a piece of me, 2 f'n bad.
Timotheus
:o)
all there is ! Then Hitler, for example is not paying for his atrocities !
Or do you even know who Hitler was?
“Fear is not of the present,
but only of the past and future,
which do not exist.
Why wait for heaven?
It is here today.”
A Course in Miracles
And Oprah is leading millions of women astray
in teaching that Satanic garbage.
We humans exist to aspire to something more. Once we got those frontal lobes, (which are relatively very new), without the unknown--that which "transcends all levels of intellectual thought"-- without that we are bereft of purpose. It is our given nature to pursue knowledge, and thereby strive to 'raise the bar' of our lifetime's existence, esp. for our children. Genuine theologians & legitimate scientists agree: our concept of God, our observations of Nature and our pursuit of Science are not mutually exclusive-- they all exist without contradiction.
There is a humility that comes with not knowing, which arises from our own actions by design, and which opens all paths to truth: By our yielding acceptance to the unknown, the way reveals itself. Some ppl name the unknown God. As all names come, after the fact, that ad hoc naming does not contradict and may even facilitate original design, by opening for us the way of all things, no matter how we name them.
On the other hand, if one is not open to unknown, be they promoting God or science, if they cannot accept or yield to the unknown, in this moment, then they have trapped themselves in a little earthly short term box, damned never to progress-- that is another definition of hell.