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Originally posted by InTheLight
reply to post by MamaJ
Does your reply make sense? Not really. You too have not addressed the question...Since we are all sinners, do we then all go to Hell?
Originally posted by 3NL1GHT3N3D1
reply to post by MamaJ
Did you see my post referring to mansions? Just curious.
Originally posted by 3NL1GHT3N3D1
reply to post by MamaJ
What if these extra dimensions are everyday things that we never really realize are there? Things we don't normally associate with dimensions? Like time being the fourth dimension then our conscience being the fifth and individuality being the sixth, so on and so forth?
I'm just throwing ideas out there, not really setting anything in stone.edit on 19-8-2012 by 3NL1GHT3N3D1 because: (no reason given)
No, I don't address the "issue of sinning". Just for simplicity I am posting your earlier comment here.
It was not sarcasm, but rather a conclusion in my mind. Your theory is delivered well, however, you did not address the issue of sinning as being something which we do naturally. As for the topic of this discussion, Hell, if we are to believe that all sinners go to Hell, then what conclusion am I to draw?
To start, I don't subscribe to the use of the term "sinning". I may be alone in thinking the phrase "sin causes death" would mean something leading to a complete break from God. We were all dead in our sins, says Paul, but we have been reconciled to God through Jesus. This creates an environment where we can lead lives not of sin but to life. This does not mean we cease to be able to fail in keeping to the standards we know is expected of a righteous like, but the connection is unbroken despite those failings and it is a back and forth line of communication that flows through the spirit.
So, let me make some sense of this. God made us as we are, complete with ego, sexual desire for reproduction or otherwise, and with a will of our own, which, if we do what is natural and God-given, we then sin.
I would not be in a big hurry to judge either way because possibly the person donates a lot of money to charities that deal with that sort of thing and he thinks it is better left to those qualified or more willing.
In the Law of the spirit, do you think this persons spirit was in line with their goal or do you think they missed the mark? ( Sin)
Jesus may have just meant that he was going away to create for us a positive relationship with God.
He is said to have taught the many mansions that are available to us through our works and actions we create here on Earth.
I see paradise as more an ideal that is the goal when we consider how the world should, and could, be a better place. Hell I see more as enemy territory, or the outcome of the universe having taken its own course and is operating for its own goals and not to benefit us. I think of it as what needs to be ultimately overcome somehow and what will take everyone's effort before it is achieved.
Hell is a place that is on Earth ( hades) and a real place in another dimension, however it's not a place of torment for eternity. It's actually a lower level, of you will, of the Ultimate paradise.
I won't speculate on what happens upon death because we won't know until it happens, but I hope it is a transition or opportunity for learning or experiencing higher consciousness and goodness.
Hell is on earth. This is why Satan rules earth.
. . . people will be send to hell for a second death.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
Hell is a real place and represents the negative aspects of life and death in this universe as it is.