The brand of theology I grew up in was pretty brutal. Why did God make hell, and people who were gonna go to hell? We believed in predestination, so He *knew* he was making ppl who He was actively sending to hell. Why?
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Coming to terms with that —what it had done to my own mind and intuitions, and what it had allowed me to do to others— was awful. But it’s strange: that view was engrained so early, yet I still felt like I was “coming back” to some lost part of myself once I was past it. -
Of course, my family (& I’d guess yours, too) would probably just quote that passage from Rom. 8 about the carnal mind being enmity with God — the feeling of “rightness” itself being evidence that compassion for apostates is ungodly. Unfalsifiable ideas are such an insane trap.
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