Most churches use their signs to generate interest and conversation. Given the number of posts on Chansen's topic, it certainly worked for Sandford United Church. It also raises a question I don't recall hearing answered here on the Cafe; does Heaven, Hell, the "afterlife" exist? Where do we go when we draw our last breath?
Hell did not seem to exist in the Old Testament. In the New Testament it seems the early Christians borrowed the idea of hell from Greek mythology and Hades.
Is Hell a place of eternal burning or a place were the "wicked" have one glorious party without hangovers and std's?
Or is hell a metaphor and if so a metaphor for what?
I must soon depart as an imaginary visitor to WC ... polter gheist to Mani without sufficiently open soles ... primal command of the Circe Em seizion up on Lu demos ... reflex shin ... dah foot of God in Hebrew is a mystery ... pedagogary! The isolationist must learn of which heis doesn't know on the bottom tier ...
Having observed the different ways of life of many Christians and their observations of the Bible, I want to ask you all this question. Keep in mind, there is a difference.
Do you live to go to Heaven? Or do you live to evade Hell?
I have no answer to that question myself, because I live for neither one. It used to be both answers for me actually, but that is no longer the case.
The world has long feared and followed the alleged activities of a cosmic devil called Satan. Brayshaw is asking some very important questions about this character and a lot of religious folk are rising to the defense of their icon of evil. Check out his New Book titled, Satan Christianty's Other God- Legend, Myth, Lore, or Lie - Biblical and Historical Proof that satan Does Not Exist. Watch a 6 minute interview with James and go to scog.ca for more info and to download the e-book.
About seven years ago, I was challenged with the idea of where Satan came from and told that the ancient Hebrews didn’t believe in Satan. Well, that just didn’t fly with me because I knew that the Torah (the five books of Moses) was the foundation for the Psalms and the Prophets (the rest of the Old Testament writings) and the Old Testament was the foundation for the New Testament writing such as the gospels and the apostolic writings. And I knew, or at least I thought I knew, the Old Testament clearly taught about Satan.
