Monday, July 18, 2016

Why Hell is Inescapable

Reading Dante's Inferno really opened my eyes to something.  I don't think the Bible gives any justification about why you can't get out of Hell once you're in there.  I think it implies that you're there because you were bad, and you can't get out because you only get one chance to not be bad.


But Dante's Inferno gave me another idea that I felt was interesting enough to post.  It gave me the idea that people in Hell never want to stop sinning.  That's why they can't get out.  If they suddenly decided to repent even in the depths of Hell, God's all powerful love would free them in an instant.  But they don't want that.  They want to continue to sin MORE than they want to be freed from the tortures of Hell.  That's how much they love sin.  And their afterlife is nothing more than a continuation of their life on earth.  They sinned on earth more and more as they aged, craved it more and more, so much that before they even left earth they were already too wrapped up in it to ever let it go.  They don't even need an external source of pain like flames to punish them.  Letting them continue in their own sin is punishment enough.  That's very clear in many cases of the TV show Intervention.


One may ask "God, why'd you create them then?  Why didn't you just let them never be born so they wouldn't have to go through so much torture?"  But if God in his mercy asked the Hell-dweller, "Hey, you want me to reverse time so you're never born, or give you a second chance or something?"  They'd say heck no.  They don't want God's help.  They want sin's help.  They trust that their own sin gets them out of Hell.  That's why they keep pursuing that path indefinitely.  And they refuse to be persuaded otherwise.  They are exactly where they want to be.  They don't want paradise because there's no sin there.

Why Evolution Vs. Creationism Isn't a Big Deal



When I first came upon the idea that light travels at the same speed no matter how fast you are uniformly traveling, I thought it was complete nonsense.  Worse than I thought the study of cardinality was.  Only this time, there was hard scientific evidence that this constant observed speed of light was true.  It wasn't just a thought in someone's mind. 


As futile as the task seemed, I sought to disprove the evidence for light's constant speed for a good solid amount of time before gradually coming to accept the truth of the evidence through personal library book research.  But even though I accept it now, and special relativity was derived to explain how it can happen, it still shocks me to no end.  And since then even crazier scientific truths have been found that still haven't been explained from what I've been told. 


The double slit experiment with electrons comes to mind.  You want to talk about tough to explain natural phenomena?  That's it right there.  That is much, much crazier than BOTH evolution AND creationism being 100% true.  No matter how much those two ideas contradict each other, they still don't contradict each other as much as the one observation made in the double slit experiment with electrons contradicts itself.  And no one, including me, has any reason to question the validity of the experiment.  It's true, true, true as something can be.  But it makes less sense than any fantasy the human mind can create. 


So if reality is capable of contradicting itself that much, evolutionism and creationism being able to coexist in the realm of truth is nothing in comparison.