If, in the end, God's going to judge everyone, then what's the point of the ability to make free choices? Given how bad Hell is, it'd be better not to have been able to make those choices. "You have free choice, but I'll fry you if you chose something I don't like" limits my ability to chose, I think.
I just wanted to show that there's no necessary connection between the emotion of release and "pressure to keep bailing".
I agree that there's no necessary connection, but I certainly found that in my own case.
Suppose I alter the saying to "un-Christian company corrupts Christian character". Now we have a statement to do with concern about taking on the values of those surrounding you (or "following their gods", as the OT warnings to Israel went).
Then I'd agree (but you've removed the moral dimension which religions tend to add to that sort of statement).
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Date: 2008-05-24 09:36 pm (UTC)I just wanted to show that there's no necessary connection between the emotion of release and "pressure to keep bailing".
I agree that there's no necessary connection, but I certainly found that in my own case.
Suppose I alter the saying to "un-Christian company corrupts Christian character". Now we have a statement to do with concern about taking on the values of those surrounding you (or "following their gods", as the OT warnings to Israel went).
Then I'd agree (but you've removed the moral dimension which religions tend to add to that sort of statement).