When I didn't ignore you, you just called me a witch.
So, what's the point?
It was a joke. Do either of us even believe in witches, much less think its an insult to be called a witch, much less think its a reason to clam up and not answer a valid question?
If all the fun people and parties are in hell and you want to go there and you think you really can get there, what need of futher conversation is there?
Also a joke. I don’t actually believe hell exists in any form, nor do I think I‘ll ever go there. But I suspect you know that already.
What do you think I could say to you about those three scriptures that you don't already know?
Well, indulge me. You’re here as a True Christian™, white-washing the existence of an eternal hell as punishment in Christianity, saying its open for interpretation or something lost in translation.
I guess you’re either trying to promote the Christian scriptural foundation as better or more pleasant than it actually is, or trying to square your own personal imagination and invented belief with what is actually written.
You said yourself you need scriptural context. What better example than the actual words of Jesus the Christ? What is the impression you get from those verses? What is the meaning behind those parables and others like them?
Why don't you tell me how something physical can burn forever? Do you have any examples of that happening? How long do you think a human body will burn before it is just ashes?
Perhaps it is me that your spells will not work on.
I’m not sure how these questions are relevant, since we are not even discussing anything based in reality, or fact, or physics, but transcendent knowledge not restricted by the rules and principles of the earthly realm. We’re discussing a book of oral traditions of an ancient culture neither of us knew, championed by people who thought the earth was flat, who thought snakes and bushes can talk, whose limited zoology meant they assumed all the (millions of) animal species in the world could fit on a home-made boat, who later thought the sun rotated around the earth… a book in which the central character was the son of a desert phantom, born of a teenage virgin, could walk on water, raise the dead, turn water into wine, exorcise demons, cure the blind with spit and mud, and even resurrect himself after his death - not only because he can, but also to fulfil previous prophecies and validate his divinity.
Do we have any examples of these things happening? Ever? No, but they are still preached as science-fact by billions of people and still given some measure of the benefit of the doubt in order for the discussion to work. Only one of us could possibly believe these things actually happened, and it aint me.
Topic: The "true" Bible