Re: Source Code for OS?

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:

> In article <3A79B1A6.327A5E3E@inetnebr.com>,
> Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
>
> > because your statement was, a) a single word, "Hate fulness",
>
> To me that looks like two words though....   <evil grin>

Sigh, yeah, my spell checker did that, and I was too distracted to pay
attention to it.

>
>
> > Paul S. and I certainly have some differing opinions/beliefs; after all
> > he's announced that he's an agnostic, and I hold to historic Reformed
> > Theology (hence, I believe in a real hell),
>
> Well I too believe in a real hell: it exists here and there, now and
> then, here on Earth.  For instance at the fronts of WW 1, or in the
> concentration camps of the Nazi's, or during the homocides in Rwanda
> or in the Balkan during the last decade, or in Europe during the
> "Black Death" some centuries ago, or after that meteorite fall
> some 65 million years ago which killed the dionsaurs.

That isn't what "hell" is. Those are horrors.

>
>
> There's absolutely no need to invent a theological hell

and who do you think "invented" a "theological hell?" You might be surprised.

> -- mankind is
> perfectly able to create a "good enough" hell already here on Earth!
>
> Of course this is just my belief, and I may be wrong.  And if I am
> wrong, I'll probably end up in hell for that....
>
>
> BTW what kind of hell do you believe in?

Sheol/Hades is a place for the incarceration of the immaterial portion of
humans. Hence, though real, it does not necessarily have a physical location.

Gehenna/Lake of Fire is a place of incarceration of resurrected humans.
Hence, it does have a physical location (where I have no idea) Biblical data
is *very* limited. Heat, darkness, suffering, both physical and nonphysical
is about all that we know, with the exception that it was not created
initially for human beings, but as a punishment for the fallen angels. Dante,
et al, have exercised literary license in their works.

> Something like Dante's
> hell, where being burnt at the stake by an earthly fire would feel
> just like a tickle compared to the fires in hell?  Or do you consider
> hell to be merely "absence of God"?  If the latter, then I and all
> other non-believers are already living in hell....

Absence from God is part of the nonphysical punishment. And you are right,
fallen humans are, in that sense already living in hell. Nice observation.

Roy