You have free will but are only free to follow the rules.

Freewill is a menance without compassion. The ability to feel what other's think.

Most will only know it as a mental concept.

A person who is "enlightened", got there from their ability to feel, not think.



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In religious mythology, Satan is symbolic of the human mind. It belongs to this physical realm and is spiritually blind. It protects it's own individuality at the expense of becoming limited in perception. It "fell" from omniscience, not heaven.

Thinking is not required in omniscience, as it goes around the mental processes. You "see" rather than think. You see with the heart. Don't get hung up on definition here. I'm talking about your "higher" nature. The ability to feel. The mind makes it sit in the passenger seat for the most part.

Hell, is anything the mind can't figure out. "God" being the most tormenting of all.

It hears stories here in this world. Stories from beyond...

It prompts the mind to inquire further. A spiritual path always begins as a mental question.

Long and dusty road ahead, but at the end of it, all questions cease.


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There is such a thing as "soul age" of sorts. Physical age is a moot point.

Is it not the place of an older brother to help their younger brothers and sisters along? Out of compassion? Out of knowing what it was like at that age?

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Enlightenment teaches that nothing is withheld.

Humans have a problem with reception.

Because they lack the compassion that acts as the antenna.


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Didn't God make your rules in the "Thou Shalt Not" columns?

Go never made any rule that was not articulated by man.

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DL

Huh? So, you are denying the existence of a deity? cool.

My signature shows what my apotheosis taught me.

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DL

So, simply put, there is no deity according to you, right?:dunno:

The truth is that you are in freedom if you follow the commandments. This is not understood by people who reject the idea that hell is acting on the world and trying to infulence your will and what you do. The Lord through heaven also influences the will and actions of people.

The Holy Bible clearly states that you serve one master or the other. There is nothing in between. Turning from one master is turning to the other master.

Swedenborg states "a perception of the sphere of falsity from evil that flows forth from hell has often been granted me. It was like a perpetual effort to destroy all that is good and true, combined with anger and a kind of fury at not being able to do so, especially an effort to annihilate and destroy the Divine of the Lord, and this because all good and truth are from Him. But out of heaven a sphere of truth and good was perceived, whereby the fury of the effort ascending from hell was restrained. The result of this was an equilibrium. This sphere from heaven was perceived to come from the Lord alone, although it appeared to come from the angels in heaven. It is from the Lord alone, and not from the angels, because every angel in heaven acknowledges that nothing of good and truth is from himself, but all is from the Lord" (Heaven and Hell n. 538).

More dogmatic B S.

Hell and it's existence must be based on moral and justice principles.

Let's see if it is a moral and just place by asking and answering this simple question.

Is it just and moral to have a sinner who can only sin for 120 years, to have him spend 120000000000000000000000000+ years in punishment and torment?

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DL

A person can only feel that way if they put themselves up as the ultimate judge. Only the Lord - the true ultimate judge - knows who has confirmed themselves in evil and who has not confirmed themselves in evil.

The Lord has plenty of second chances for those that have not confirmed themselves in evil.

Dogma.

Your judge is an absentee judge and is therefore irrelevant to mankind.

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DL