Why do you think so many people say that there can't be a heaven without a hell or vice versa? I believe in chocolate, but I don't think there's an anti-chocolate, unless you count brussel sprouts. YUCK!!! LOL :)
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Self Consuming Cannibal
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cause they think what they wont if its right or wrong. its how they would like it to be. i think chocolate is a good religion, sense i like it more than you do :P
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There's bad and good, white and black, republican and democrat....There's an opposite to almost everything. I don't believe in either, but why wouldn't there be a Hell to go with a heaven?
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Well, can there be a shadow without light? How can you know what's pleasurable if you don't know what's painful? It's just the way we look at things in my opinion. We prove the existence of one thing by comparing it with another.
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I don't know that there can't be. However, traditions and teachings have come thru the ages. With the evil I have seen in this world, I hope there is a heaven and a hell, for those so bent on going there. +4
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I've never heard anyone say that there cannot be a heaven without a hell.
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The people who created it knew they would need to scare people as well as promise rewards.
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white chocolate is the anit chocolate
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If you have a God who is holy, then by that virtue anything unholy cannot be with Him. I certainly don't prescribe to every version of hell ever told, but I do believe that to be without God, completely without His presence, would equal hell. Whether that means literal fire and brimstone, I'm not convinced, but when you say "there can't be heaven without hell", what I would translate that to is: God's presence is heaven. (Or heaven is where God abides, be that a physical place or not.) God cannot abide unholiness. We (all humans) are unholy. Without forgiveness we cannot enter His presence. His absence is hell. Therefore there can be no heaven without hell. Or this is how I try to wrap my very tiny mind around the very enormous idea of eternity.
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That is an excellent point that you raise. (I as a Christian have argued this with Christians as well.) The existence of God, for example, is not contingent upon the existence of Satan. (However, the existence of Satan is contingent upon God, his Creator.) God did not have to allow the existence of evil for Him to still be good. God did not have to allow sin for there to be righteousness. I agree with your point, not everything has an equal opposite, nor does the existence of a thing necessitate that its opposite must also exist. Good question. Thank you.
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