Warning, this IS from the perspective of a Christian. But it’s something I wish I had known when I was deconverting.
The heaven and hell bullshit is just something modern Christian’s use to get you to tithe and support fascist ideals. Fuck them.
That’s a cool article I’m christian myself but that was always one thing I would have changed, I was thinking of starting my own group “christians against the end of the word” well I still am but I guess I might have to change the tag line from “better for a soul to forever wait for judgment than burn for eternity”, the 12 month thing would have to be adjusted for
John 3:18 is pretty clear about people who don’t believe in Jesus being “condemned”, and there’s a handful of other verses (like Revelation 20:15) that seem to suggest that the condemnation is to eternal torture… How do you reconcile this with your interpretation?
Did you read the article? It covers the hades translation issue. And the context of condemned there is pretty open ended in John, condemnation seems within that text to be explicitly not seeing the light of god anymore.