God's voice was kind and gentle once more. I was raised as a Christian, and often went to hurch, and prayed every night before bed. When I was feeling down I would read the Bible. The act of reading it seemed to comfort me, even though the words themselves didn't seem much help. I think, like Martin, I believed because I believed. You decided I did not exist, and you knew better than those around you?
You knew better than your pastor and family? What I believed did not seem to fit with other things I knew. The Bible clearly could not be literally true, word for word. I knew from biology and paleontology that humans had evolved like all other life, and were not special creations. How life or the universe began, I still don't know, but could not just merely accept 'God did it' as an explanation.
I learned about other religions, and how they all claimed a monopoly on truth, happiness and morality. I saw the good done in your name, but I also saw the oppression, genocide and wars. I saw that if people were in need, it was up to us to deal with it, not to rely on heavenly aid.
Eve felt a little braver, but was expecting the traditional thunderbolt any moment. The people behind her, now at the head of the queue, were slowly moving backwards, trying not to draw attention to themselves. Why should I allow you in - a heretic, a disbeliever, an infidel - when your predecessor, devout and faithful, full of love for me, was consigned to Oblivion? Tell me why. Justify your entry to my Paradise. Because I am better person than you. His voice, though barely audible, caused tremors in the mountain.
Surprised at still being alive, her mouth dry, Eve continued. You have shown it yourself already. You told Martin that you watched as his mother became ill and died. You destroyed him for believing for no good reason, when his whole life had been shaped by that belief. Your preachers on Earth encourage unquestioning faith, yet you do not tell us whether that is what you want.
You give people no rational basis for belief, and then when they make up their own that is not good enough for you. You listen to our prayers, yet do not answer, leaving people to rationalise events for themselves. People kill and slaughter over trivial differences in doctrine, and you look on. In the churches and temples raised in your glory, children are mentally and physically abused - in your so-called House!
All over the world, throughout history, people have murdered each other for believing the wrong thing about God, for believing in the wrong God, or for not believing in any God.
The poorest and most helpless people are relentlessly targeted, being told to give what little they have now, for the promise of eternal bliss later. When a person is at his lowest ebb, that is when the smiling missionaries appear, knowing that his life will probably get better naturally and they can give you the credit. In your name, the ends justify the means as long as souls are saved". They drink of the tainted water, and know it not.
Say: The shout hath been raised, and the people have come forth from their graves, and arising, are gazing around them. Some have made haste to attain the court of the God of Mercy, others have fallen down on their faces in the fire of Hell, while still others are lost in bewilderment.
The verses of God have been revealed, and yet they have turned away from them. His proof hath been manifested, and yet they are unaware of it. And when they behold the face of the All-Merciful, their own faces are saddened, while they are disporting themselves. They hasten forward to Hell Fire, and mistake it for light. Far from God be what they fondly imagine! Say: Whether ye rejoice or whether ye burst for fury, the heavens are cleft asunder, and God hath come down, invested with radiant sovereignty.
The turning and falling of the autumn leaves is past; the bleakness of the winter time is over. The new year hath appeared and the spiritual springtime is at hand. The black earth is becoming a verdant garden; the deserts and mountains are teeming with red flowers; from the borders of the wilderness the tall grasses are standing like advance guards before the cypress and jessamine trees; while the birds are singing among the rose branches like the angels in the highest heavens, announcing the glad-tidings of the approach of that spiritual spring, and the sweet music of their voices is causing the real essence of all things to move and quiver.
His purpose, far from belittling the station of the Prophets gone before Him or of whittling down their teachings, is to restate the basic truths which these teachings enshrine in a manner that would conform to the needs, and be in consonance with the capacity, and be applicable to the problems, the ills and perplexities, of the age in which we live.
His mission is to proclaim that the ages of the infancy and of the childhood of the human race are past, that the convulsions associated with the present stage of its adolescence are slowly and painfully preparing it to attain the stage of manhood, and are heralding the approach of that Age of Ages when swords will be beaten into plowshares, when the Kingdom promised by Jesus Christ will have been established, and the peace of the planet definitely and permanently ensured.
The Day of Judgment may not be what people expected. Christopher Buck Ph. The official website of the Baha'i Faith is: Bahai. The official website of the Baha'is of the United States can be found here: Bahai.
Interested in Other Topics? Never miss an article. Sign up. All we know is that akal purakh can do it Only the creator knows it. What Sikhism teaches us is this.
We have been blessed with the human form after 84 lakhs Joons , these joons are not just limited to living beings but rather rocks, water, celestial bodies Hence we should value this life and submit to akal purakh.
We'll be judged when we leave this human form. If we have lived this life in his hukum or order then we'll be free from this endless cycle of joons or else its again the same thing and who knows how long it lasts. Now the question is what is the hukum. I am afraid I am too incompetent to tell this. You can listen to panth rattan giani sant singh maskeen ji in his katha over japji sahib.
Logically, it would reek of corruption, be infested with maggots, an abomination that causes its wearer shame:. For their worm does not die, And their fire is not quenched. They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. The fire is not quenched, the maggot dies not. The second implies eternal torment, undying maggots require a body to continue forever, therefore the abominable resurrection body Isa.
All sacrificed in Gehenna either are consumed by unquenchable fire Mk. Mark Everyone sacrificed in Gehenna is salted with destruction by fire, or preservation as meat is preserved with salt. Those guilty of eternal sins receive eternal torment, those who are not, do not. Jesus gravely warned about Gehenna Matt.
Mark compared to Matthew and Luke confirms this. By extension it would apply to everyone Matt. Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another. Every disciple of Christ will be purified by Holy Spirit and fire Lk.
But if the salt becomes saltless, its only fit to be cast outside Lk. They only fooled themselves Mat. Possibly even forever. Gehenna as described is far worse than Hades Lk.
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