"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the
lake of fire." (Revelation 20:15 KJV)
At 11:06 PM 6/15/98 -0300, you wrote:
>At 06:04 PM 6/15/98 -0400, sodom wrote:
>>Well, now I have to read it. Oh well. Also, on the recommended reading
>>list, I am finally reading Dante - "Inferno" aka "The Divine Comedy". It is
>>an awe inspiring book (prose) I spose.
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>i would have to agree with that, i went through (excuse the deliberate pun)
>hell and back to find that book, and was definatly blown away by it, it
>exceeded all my expectations)
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>on a slightly unrelated note, the now traditional concept of hell as a
>place of eternal damnation, pain, suffering, fire, brimstone, blah blah
>blah.. is never actually mentioned in the bible as that. Instead it is
>merely, a place where people who dont want to be with God go and do their
>own thing(and for some the abscence of God is quite terrifying). And the
>hell of fire and little red devils came about from an association with
>Gehenna (a place outside Jerusalem i believe where garbage was burned).
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>can anyone back me up on this? or at least point out the errors of that, i
>have yet to find the source where i first learned about this.
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