Punishment for skepticism?

[Jason76]

http://themathhelp.com/threads/punishment-for-skepticism.1506/

This could get deep here. What is your view? Of course, in traditional Christianity, eternal hell is for those who reject Christ as savior.

 

[Jon]

I don't exactly want to get into a religious debate at the moment however, I don't believe things in the bible are as cut and dry as most imply. Example of mercy:

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[Jason76]

I don't exactly want to get into a religious debate at the moment however, I don't believe things in the bible are as cut and dry as most imply. Example of mercy:

I think the ultimate mercy is there is no eternal hell, only temporary. But Catholic teaching from way back established it as a doctrine to scare people into submission - using mistranslated Greek.

 

[Page]

I don't believe in this at all...

 

[Cosmic]

Hell as seen in modern christianity is a concept that does not have much biblical basis, and was largely invented during the middle ages by the catholic church. I have a universalist perspective. If there is a god, they'd be unlikely to judge people based on arbitrary sect choices.

 

[Jason76]

Hell as seen in modern christianity is a concept that does not have much biblical basis, and was largely invented during the middle ages by the catholic church. I have a universalist perspective. If there is a god, they'd be unlikely to judge people based on arbitrary sect choices.

I think there is limited punishment of a just variety, not cruel. That would encompass the warnings given in the Bible.

 

[Cosmic]

There isn't any way to know. I am an Omnist, so I don't consider the bible to be an end-all-be-all, only one piece to a larger puzzle.

 

[Jason76]

Well, regardless of position, it seems the ancient language was mistranslated. What are the odds of it not being the case?

 

[Cosmic]

I don't know the details of translations we have. My understanding though is that it has been translated enough times that we can compare more recent translations to older translations, and have a certain degree of certainty as to what the translation was as of certain years in the past. Though there is certainly room for inaccuracies. For example, the four gospels were recorded from oral stories by people who never met the people involved.

 

[Jason76]

I think a big problem is certain people believe God gives them, personally, the right interpretation. For instance, in the confusion of deciding who is right or wrong, people will just say "the spirit lead them to the answer".

But... lots of differing people claim the same thing. For instance, if two people pray, who is given the right answer?