Seriously, where did these beliefs come from? Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, and Jews don't believe in a place called hell (just the grave), and they believe that Lucifer isn't evil, just the heavenly version of a prosecuting attorney.
If Jesus was a Jew, and he didn't come to change the law/scripture (by his own words), then why, all of sudden in the new testament, are there all these references to an evil Satan and the non-believers going to hell to suffer forever?
Did Jesus even say these things? Did early Christians subvert the old testament to make it support their positions? Were Christians pretty much a cult that won the religion lottery when they got endorsed by Constantine, thereby getting the ability to re-write their own past?
What do you think?
2007-04-02
15:12:49
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