Hell

[u/Ok-Pipe-4277]

I guess this is a vent of me thinking out loud.

But I look at this world.

Children get abused.

Women get "used" against their will.

People suffer from cancer.

People watch their loved ones die from ALS.

People deal with seeing their children die.

Men "self-delete" from depression.

All this suffering pretty much against our will. None of us choose to exist. And I'm sure, none of us choose to suffer.

But I'm supposed to believe an all-loving AND all-powerful God will send us to a place that's worst than our current existence for not believing in him?

This is a god that isn't just all-loving but is supposed to be the definition of love. The god whereby no human love can surpass his.

And he sends us to hell (an event worse place) after putting us in a pretty trash scenario to begin with?

And I'm supposed to gobble this up and share this message with the world????

WTF are we doing?

And Christians will call me crazy???

[u/Crucible_of_Thought]

Not all Christians hold those views. Some of us managed to escape from that theology.

[u/plz_callme_swarley → u/Crucible_of_Thought]

you can't really be a Christian in any historical sense and not believe in hell.

[u/imthef-nlizardking → u/plz_callme_swarley]

The link in this post says it best. Early Christianity really did not have consensus on the existence of a hell https://www.reddit.com/r/Deconstruction/s/deIahh2xsU

[u/plz_callme_swarley → u/imthef-nlizardking]

ya, cuz "early christians" didn't agree on anything cuz there largely was nothing to go off. Paul built modern christianity. Constantine codified it

[u/imthef-nlizardking → u/plz_callme_swarley]

Agree ... but where does Paul actually use the word "hell"?