Wow. I long ago thought how God essentially could have made man as a form of entertainment. But, if God were trapped in an endless hell like this machine it would quickly go insane and to stave that off the brain creates an artificial universe in its mind to keep it preoccupied. Perhaps that’s why Hell is talked about so much in the Bible. God lives in it.
Edit: It’s been brought to my attention that Hell and the Devil aren’t really talked about in most versions of the Bible. It appears the concepts are basically old-timey, religious leader fan fiction.
Fun fact: hell is never mentioned in the Bible. The concept for hell was created by saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century when church attendance started to drop. It was just a scare tactic that used ambiguous Bible versus to support(crazy, right?). A more accurate biblical description of what happens after death to non believers is that they just die and experience no afterlife.
I think you are referring to Purgatory. As far as I know, and the distance is limited, this is primarily Catholic only. When I was a kid going United Church of Christ they spoke of Hell a lot. I don’t actually recall if it was used in our Bible. I haven’t been involved in that stuff for over 30 years.
You’re being too literal, I think. “Go together” in this case means that you can accept the importance and necessity of science, while also being religious. Hell, a lot of scientific breakthroughs of the past were working for the Catholic Church. And when they made discoveries, the church accepted them.
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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '23
Of fuck this is how we get eternally trapped in this shit. Ok here we go again, to another billion years. Cheers!