Re: Do belief systems evolve?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Mekkala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> 
> >> Actually, there is no such concept [as hell] in scripture: eternal
> >> torture (as if God was insatiably sadistic) was borrowed from Greek
> >> thought in later centuries.
> >
> > Ah.  I see.  So, the "Lake of Fire" (the Bible's exact words in
> > reference to a place where Satan, his angels, and all those whose
> > names are not "written in the Book of Life" go) isn't *really* a
> > lake of fire...
> 
> Let's see now. Where did you get that from? Oh, yes: Revelation. The
> same book in which a literal dragon pelts the earth with 1/3 of all
> the actual stars, after which a literal giant hooker rides a literal
> scarlet beast--when she isn't sitting on seven literal mountains.
> 
> Um, what exactly is your question again? Sounds like you need a
> reading lesson.
> 
> Regards,
> Len.


Before a guy who walks on water, casts demons into swine and makes them
plunge off cliffs, and turns water into wine comes back to "save" us,
which he didn't quite do the first time. Sounds about right to me.

Sean C


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