god gives hope for humanity?

shadowman said:
how did this article appear beautiful to you?
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maybe its a case of insiders and outsiders? If we are "insiders" we see the "beauty", if an "outsider" only that which is "ugly". Hopefully, come the final reconciliation, such divisions will be seen to be passing things............

...there is something too real to allow sin any longer to seem important, to seem to exist, for it has been swallowed up, it has been destroyed, it is gone, and there is only the great secret between us that we are all one Kind, and what matters is not what this or that one has committed in their heart, separate from the others, but the love that brings them back to all the others....

Thomas Merton, Journals, March 19th, 1958.

:)
 
shadowman said:
Gods solution isnt that great... its not like everyone who suffered on this earth gets the bliss of heaven. many people go to hell. since we cant control god but we can control our minds and wills, we should all be trying to make things better for everyone.

any hope for humanity that a christian could posess must be marred by the fact that many humans are going to hell.

unless of course all the people going to hell are the devils children.

If god didnt want people in hell, doesnt it make sense that he wouldnt create hell in the firstplace? Even hell for satan and his angels seems a bit strange, what does god get out of torturing his enemies for all time? what does he get out of letting humans be tortured for all time?

Isnt it strange that god values free will more than he values not letting anyone go to hell ?

(free will being the wonderful ability of us to reject or accept god, where rejection leads to hell...)
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I wonder what became of our shadowman..... I hope he has been able to let go by now....
 
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