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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: eternal damnation
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Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 09:46:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 17 09:46:58 1984
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From labelle@hplabsc.UUCP (WB6YZZ Labelle):

> There is no GOD so don't worry about it! If there was one, as some of the
> jelly brains contend, and he was giving us all these tests- rewarding those
> who passed and torturing all who didn't, then I'd say to hell with HIM!

"This is not net.flame," he said mildly.

How truly my old friend Doug Dickey said that when atheists are asked to
describe the God in whom they disbelieve, they come out with a caricature of
the true God, a distorted version which OUGHT to be rejected.  God is not in
the business of administering tests to determine who passes and who fails.
We've already all failed, and we continue to fail!  God is more interested in
the direction you're going -- i.e. if you are trying to follow Him and become
more like Him, you will have your reward; if not, you'll get what you've
chosen -- eternity without God.  It may not be as pleasant as you think.

Quoting (approximately, by memory) from two C.S. Lewis books:

From "The Problem of Pain":  There may be pleasures, of a sort, in Hell
(God save us from them); and there may be pains, in a sense, in Heaven
(God grant that we may taste them soon).

From "The Great Divorce":  There are two types of people:  Those who say to
God, "Thy will be done", and those to whom God says, in the end, "THY will
be done!"

-- 
-- Jeff Sargent
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