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Originally Posted by Immortal Goat
Those rules about not believing in God did NOT come from God, they came from the corrupt bishops of the middle ages who were trying to scare people into believing them and paying them money.
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I am kind of a christian myself (trying to decide on my beliefs and studying up on it still so I am not committing) and I can vouch for that. It wasn't neccessarily corrupt the bishops as it was the corrupt church. They were the law, and didn't want to lose that power.
I am not saying that you will go to the Kingdom of God if you do not have faith in him, but you won't be punished with an eternal damnation in a flaming pit. That was pieced together by Roman Catholics from talk about hell and talk about the lake of fire- which are two different things.
Hell is apperently where Satan is now. He is not on fire in horrible pain... yet. Hell is simply the absence of God (like how God is "everywhere" on earth? Well, he isn't in Hell). I guess life without God is supposed to be pretty shitty, so Hell isn't exactly like normal life.
NOTE: This is not all neccessarily true. This is just what I have come up with through my own studies. I may not be an all wise pastor who is an expert, but at least I didn't just believe what one told me their take on it was.