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minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agoThe absence of free will part is that you have to stay on the path of following your conscience to stay in heaven. This literalist crap is the way a five year old understands religion.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoWhat Christian denominations count everything in Revelations, which is where this description comes from, as anything but literal? That is the one specific book in the Bible that is not usually considered metaphorical by religious institutions.
The absence of free will part is that you have to stay on the path of following your conscience to stay in heaven.
This literalist crap is the way a five year old understands religion.
What Christian denominations count everything in Revelations, which is where this description comes from, as anything but literal? That is the one specific book in the Bible that is not usually considered metaphorical by religious institutions.