What is the purpose behind an eternal hell?

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[JonFromMinnesota]

We should want and try to do right.

Yep. No God required for that at all.

Without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sin.

I wish we could keep this type of thinking where it belongs, in primitive 1st century cultures. Human blood sacrifice is a deplorable idea and nothing but superstition.

If every thought, pain, memory was over, then would it
matter if you died as saved or in your sins?

Is this Pascal's wager dressed up in a different outfit?

There must be reward and punishment to come after death.

Why?

 

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[JonFromMinnesota]

Because the Bible doesn't say you die -but you die in your sins.

The bible says a lot of things. That doesn't make it true.

It also speaks of a second death, so there must be more life.

Again, just because it says something doesn't make it true. Do you have an argument that doesn't go around in circles?

 

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[JonFromMinnesota]

What do you mean?

What you are basically arguing is "The bible is true because it says it's true". That is a circular argument which is a logical fallacy. The bible isn't evidence, it's the claim.

 

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[JonFromMinnesota]

History also shows it to be true.

Have you used the historic method to substantiate this claim?
The gospels were written decades after the alleged events by unknown authors. Could you please name one contemporary and independent historical writing that substantiates the alleged miracles in the bible? If you cannot, you cannot claim the bible is historically reliable when it comes to miraculous claims.

 

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[JonFromMinnesota]

What about the writers that told about John and his teachings
as to Revelation?

This does not answer my question. Can you name one contemporary and independent source that wrote about the miraculous claims in the gospels?

 

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[JonFromMinnesota]

They told about John and John told about Jesus Christ-as the One
like the Son of man/ Rev. 14 -thus the One he had seen at the time of the
transfiguration on the mount.

This is not a contemporary account. I'm asking for a contemporary and independent account, meaning it was written AT THE TIME OF THE EVENTS that describe and substantiate the miraculous claims of the bible. Can you name one?

I see some trying to deny the flood of Noah.

All geologic evidence falsifies the flood story. It didn't happen. This is a demonstrable fact.

 

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