• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    It isn't a command, since humans don't have that ability. Hell is described by Jesus in Luke 16. Humans being human, all sorts of temperal tortures have been justified as doing the victim a favor by potentially saving them from eternal torture, but I don't think that is explicit in the text.

    As an aside, over half of Christians (Catholics and Eastern Orthodox primarily) consider the teachings of the church to be the primary root of the faith, not "sola scriptura" as came in with protestantism. All sorts of religiously justified torture arose on both sides of that divide though.

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      1 year ago

      over half of Christians (Catholics and Eastern Orthodox primarily) consider the teachings of the church to be the primary root of the faith, not “sola scriptura” as came in with protestantism.

      I have never heard that before. Thank you for your reply. The more I learn, the more I understand how much stuff I don't know.

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        1 year ago

        It makes more sense. The Bible has contradictions, sometimes within the same book. Matthew for example can't seem to decide who the dad is. If you go sola scriptura you are basically stuck squaring the circle. If you have a Pope they can issue an official version that overrides everything. That's why you see all those weird Bible literalists groups are prots.