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Originally Posted by shawndell
Some one once taught that eternity is like a steel ball the size of the earth,and every thousand years a sparrow come to brush his wing on this steel ball.By the time that this steel ball wares down to nothing that is not even the beginning of eternity. 
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I call that creative manipulation and fear! If you were raised in a traditional "hellfire" culture you have heard that definition of eternity. It was not enough to try scare the hell out of folks with intense heat and fire, the length of time and the hopelessness of it had to be dramatized.
Is God so weak and powerless to accomplish His purpose of redeeming mankind that He had to resort to such evil and wicked tactics? I have found better and more Godly plans for man in the scriptures, but it requires shedding the doctrines of men, the dark ages and the apostate church.