http://www.tentmaker.org/articles/pastor_confession.html

There are also many other wonderful, comforting articles on this site. I believe that as Peter said..God wills all to come to repentance and so life. As such, I am comfortable believing that God’s will be done. Jesus Christ, saviour of ALL mankind, especially those who believe.

God bless you and all whom you care for.

You give Paul too much credit. His beliefs don’t even make sense within his assumptions. For if one is to posit a lake of fire that burns without consuming for time without ending, one can not also hold to the law of cause and effect. He hasn’t made it all the way to coherent, let alone defensible.

To be perfectly honest, you did not really present a question to be answered. You have your personal opinion, which you even admitted yourself. What can anyone say against it? I believe you are wrong. I believe you are unnecessarily extrapolating. That’s about it.

Assuming this creation is a typology of what is to come. And the theory that there is no hell. It seems to me to fly in the face of our reality whereas all of creation is bound by the laws of cause and effect.

Why would we assume there is anything to come? If there is anything to come, why would we assume the same sort of laws apply there as here. But you want those things given a priori. Okay.

Therefore assuming I have the right to choose the action I wish ( which I most certainly do).

The concept of “free will” is in no way a certainty. In fact, the most current research suggests that it is merely a construct of the brain.

It stands to reason thet I also have to endure the consequences of my choice

This very law is played over and over everyday of our lives. I overeat and I get fat. I break the law and I suffer the consequences, I plant seed and a flower grows.

If the lake of fire ( hell is the grave and all are subject to that) is the ultimate end of those who persist in their choices and Heaven the ultimate end of the others. .

But only if you first accept that:
1. There is an afterlife
2. The same rules apply there as here
3. There is such a thing as free will
4. Our actions in this life will carry over into the next

What is your basis for all of these assumptions?

Why is this so unbelieveable?

Because it’s based on a slew of unproven and unsupported assumptions.

If the desenters are wrong, holy cow I hope they have some power to stand in my stead at the judgement ( assuming it exists!)

What? Is this a thinly veiled Pascal’s Wager?

Listen I know Religion is full of crap. It has turned the Bible into a mockery. But something tells me the book is right, Jesus is right. The problem is corrupt men and their agenda’s that is wrong.

At least when I was all alone in my darkest hour that is what MY heart said to me

Ah. So, you have no real foundation of evidence for your ponderings? This is all based on “something” which tells you that the Bible is true, and the secret stirring of your heart? What about those who feel the same about the Koran. Should I listen to them, or should I listen to you?

Look, Paul, if we accept all of the assumptions that you want us to accept, then yes, your logic makes sense. But we don’t. We see no evidence for an afterlife, so we don’t assume there is one. We see no evidence that there is hell, so we don’t assume there is one. To get us on board, you’re going to have to first prove all of your assumptions.

Is it laziness, stupidity, some combination of both?