ETERNAL TORMENT IS FALSE TEACHING WHAT SAY YE'?

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by zeek

You're all coming at this subject with a least two unsupported assumptions:

1.That the writers of the Bible knew what they were talking about. We have a lot more knowledge of the universe then they did during Biblical times, and so far, I'm not aware that anyone has discovered a place that fits the Biblical description of hell. Sure, there are the so-called near death experience [NDEs]. But, at this point in the state of knowledge, NDEs are more likely neuropsychological than metaphysical.

2. That the writers all believed the same thing about the after-life. Since many of them were not aware of each other and wrote at different times as the Judaeo-Christian religion developed, its more likely that there is a variety of beliefs about these things.

How do we know that you are not a computer generating posts on a forum.

Even the so-called eye-witnesses who once knew you cannot be trusted since we know so much more than we did back in the 20th century.

I need substantial, verifiable, and testable evidence to prove you are really a human, until then I must assume otherwise.

[zeek]

Originally Posted by Ohio

How do we know that you are not a computer generating posts on a forum.

Even the so-called eye-witnesses who once knew you cannot be trusted since we know so much more than we did back in the 20th century.

I need substantial, verifiable, and testable evidence to prove you are really a human, until then I must assume otherwise.

There are few things I am more certain of than the fact that I am not a robot. I doubt that you have serious doubts about it either. If you did, it's easy enough for you to check out. Not so for statements about hell or eternal torment or the after-life in general which we have NO way to verify short of suicide in which case you likely will not be reporting back. So your argument has minimal bearing on the question at hand.