do you have fear of going to hell?

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do you have fear of going to hell?

After some of the mistakes I've made over the past 12 months, I do have that fear. There are mistakes that I've made last February and April.

No.

Nope.

No. I don't believe in hell anyway. I believe in an afterlife but believe that people who have done evil deeds are cleansed before either reincarnating or living in the afterlife for however long.

I don’t really believe in an afterlife… If it does exist, then we are already living in hell.

No, I have blessed assurance. I believe in Jesus.

I don't believe in heaven or hell, so no.

I didn't even know people actually feared this lol.

No such place. And if there were, I've no doubt the company would be orders of magnitude more interesting than the alternative.

No, because I don't have any desire to travel to Jerusalem.

The origin of the bibilical hell was the valley of Gehenna outside of Jerusalem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna

Yeah. I don't think if it that much these days, but I am sure as my death approaches I will fear it more.

No. I belive death is annihilation of the existence.

Not really, no. The entire concept of hell, at least as popularly understood in Christianity and some of it's fan-fiction, doesn't make a lot of sense since it would damn good people who don't hurt anyone for arbitrary rules. A lot of it seems really manipulative and self propagating if that makes sense, stuff that I guess 'my' god wouldn't do. High stakes Santa Claus, I have always been skeptical.

I don't hurt anybody, I try to be a be a good son and brother, I want to be a good person. What scares me more than hell is the idea that it really is the end because if hell is real then so must be heaven or so has been said plenty of times before I'm sure. I wasn't really raised religious so maybe that is my hell, it's such a lack of control and powerlessness. Some people think that faith is oppressive but it is empowering in a way to believe there is order and security in what would otherwise be a chaotic and uncaring universe, you can change things and make them right whereas otherwise when you deconstruct everything to the point that everything loses all meaning. I can control whether or not I am not good person, nobody can control the fate that awaits us all and our time on this earthly plane together is so short. The decisions one makes in life and the values one lives by does have consequences, the implications are every bit as grave in this life as it is with eternal damnation as bad decisions and a lack of values can lead you down a path of a living hell which instead of being eternity it's maybe the only chance that you get.

I am not afraid of going to hell. I don't believe in an afterlife..
Except that maybe, after they die, each person starts anew as a different thing.

I believe that when you die, you immediately become a tiny new fetus growing in someone's womb, only it is not you, because you will be another soul in another body in another life, so technically you DON'T get another life.

It's a paradox.