Kimberly. Thank you for your thoughtful essays. Pax et bonum to all here.
A few points to add to the discussion: - Christians have a variety of views on what hell is. One is that gehenna refers to a rubbish tip outside Jerusalem that was always burning. So sins are burned away. - Please note that some Christians are very keen to be right and keen to only promote what is right. This may manifest as ignoring and excluding Christians who have different opinions to them. This means that in the long term those who attend 'narrow' churches do not know, or have little understanding, of Christians with different views from their own. Non-Christians can then get a narrow view from them of what Christians may believe. - While many Christians have bought into narrative, a significant minority have not. Some if those attending my local Stand in the Park group started as they were holding their church services in the park - and wondered who the Stand group were - as they were not prepared to mask or use Zoom to keep attending their old church. - There is also the White Rose - https://thewhiterose.uk/ The Scholls mean a lot to me as my relatives were called up and fought in the German National Socialist army. They were the usual human mixture of strengths and weaknesses. In contrast, the Scholls were saints. - As with the Oster amnesty request, I think my relatives also desperately wanted an amnesty after the war. They were all clearly spiritually damaged and had to work it through. As many of us do !!!
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Date: 2022-11-06 01:41 pm (UTC)A few points to add to the discussion:
- Christians have a variety of views on what hell is. One is that gehenna refers to a rubbish tip outside Jerusalem that was always burning. So sins are burned away.
- Please note that some Christians are very keen to be right and keen to only promote what is right. This may manifest as ignoring and excluding Christians who have different opinions to them. This means that in the long term those who attend 'narrow' churches do not know, or have little understanding, of Christians with different views from their own. Non-Christians can then get a narrow view from them of what Christians may believe.
- While many Christians have bought into narrative, a significant minority have not. Some if those attending my local Stand in the Park group started as they were holding their church services in the park - and wondered who the Stand group were - as they were not prepared to mask or use Zoom to keep attending their old church.
- There is also the White Rose - https://thewhiterose.uk/ The Scholls mean a lot to me as my relatives were called up and fought in the German National Socialist army. They were the usual human mixture of strengths and weaknesses. In contrast, the Scholls were saints.
- As with the Oster amnesty request, I think my relatives also desperately wanted an amnesty after the war. They were all clearly spiritually damaged and had to work it through. As many of us do !!!