>>17781262>>17781270As a Christian trying to make sense of how we came to eternal torture as the accepted normal understanding of the afterlife, I can't help but see how Greek philosophical concepts of the eternal soul intersected with Jewish concepts of a God who deals out justice combined into what we now see as eternal torture.
I'll even be nice to KJV, and quote judgement day from the KJV (They will respond to me with some cope, I am sure, defending eternal torture and how this makes sense).
"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
Taken in the understanding that most Christians have, judgement day is God taking people out of HELL, judging them, and throwing them back into HELL, where they have their second eternal torture.
Why would I not read this literally per the Greek, where is says people are taken out of Hades and judged, thrown into fire, and experience a second death? "Fear he who can destroy the soul" not "Fear he who can eternally torture you". The gift of God is eternal life, if its something we already have, how is it a gift?
If someone quotes the parable of Luke to me, Its a parable, Hades is not the lake of fire, and nowhere else is Hades/Sheol described in that way. Jesus is making fun of people who think that their material wealth on earth means that God loves them, and also making fun of people who think that eternal souls are a given.
I am truly sorry that everyone on 4chan has to deal with insane KJV cultists.