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Danieljay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 12:55 PM
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7. God created humans. Humans created Satan and create their hell.
As a former theology student I could never get around the whole idea of satan and hell and being separate from God. If God is truly omnipotent and omnipresent, there is no place that God isn't. Therefore, if there was a hell, God would be there and we could NEVER be separated from God even in hell. How could an omnipoten omnipresent, the Alpha the Omega, NOT be somewhere? Even if God IS spirit there is no place in the spiritual realm that God couldn't be. The fundies can't grasp this. But it is even written in Psalms:

Psalms 139:7-8 “Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell(sheol), behold, thou art there. THATS the love of God in my opinion.

I still say that in essence we are always in the presence of God; and if we choose to create our hell God is also there and available to us to pull us out of the hell of our own making. Its really quite beautiful when stripped from the limited beliefs of the fundies.
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