Heaven / Hell
Emotions
by Gary DeVaney
Revelation 12:7 There was WAR
in Heaven.
What? No! How can that be? Surprised? If there is war in Heaven, what other
horrors does Heaven hold? How can you explain that God is truly in control? How can you explain God’s lack of popularity
in Heaven?
Revelation 19:14 The armies
which were in Heaven…
The US army I was in was
designed for fighting, destroying, killing and dying. If you fight and die in God's army in Heaven, where do you go from
there?
Matthew 11:11 Jesus said: He that
is least in Heaven is greater than He.
What? Is there discrimination,
inequality, rank or a cast system in Heaven? What do you truly know about Heaven? What do you believe about
Heaven? Is what you claim to know and what you claim to believe about Heaven vastly different? Can you spell
hypocrisy?
Matthew 11:12 Jesus said:
The Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent are taking it by force.
What? Doesn't Christian dogma
promote Heaven to be "bliss" and "paradise"? How can Heaven be "paradise" if Jesus Christ, Himself, says there is violence
in Heaven? You do believe Jesus, don't you? If so, how can you have it both ways? Do you give up Jesus' integrity
or give up Heaven being paradise?
Jesus Christ! What's going on
here?
Matthew 16:19 Whatsoever
you shall bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven.
What? Does this mean that you
are bound, limited and restricted in Heaven?
Matthew 24:35 Heaven
and Earth shall pass away but My words shall not pass away.
Matthew 5:18 Till Heaven
and Earth pass…
II Peter 3:10 &
12 Heaven shall pass away with a great noise / be dissolved in flames.
WHAT? If Heaven passes away,
how does that effect your Eternal-Life? If your life passes away, it is not eternal. If your life
is not eternal, what has all the religious / salvation fuss been about?
Concerning Heaven and God, some tend to know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Some stress the price
of Eternal-Damnation, punishment and suffering rather than any values or riches of Heaven. If God does not change,
how can being around armies for eternity be of value?
Conclusion: Religion is primitive
politics. It is still used by power-oriented people who don’t find themselves popular or strong enough to be in the
political arena. It is designed to win over the hearts and minds of people. Tools of religion include bribery, intimidation,
and awesome fear-based ultimatums. Religions are used by people who want to boss other people around. Many clergy use military
“Psy-Ops”
(Psychological Operations) tactics:
"Grab the populace by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow."
The New Testament claims "life after death" throughout.
But, is there "life after death" in the Old Testament?
Isaiah 26:19: Thy dead men shall
live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs
and the Earth shall cast out the dead.
This one source, Isaiah, says yes. Isaiah claims
that his body, which science knows eventually turns to dust, will arise. It is absurd but it is a documented "life
after death" claim in the Old Testament.
But - the O.T. is again contradictory and confusing for Isaiah 26:14
had already said:
Isaiah 26:14 They are dead, they shall not live. They are deceased,
they shall not rise. Therefor hast Thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to parish. Catholic
Elijah, I don't think, qualifies for a "life after death" story IF
Elijah was considered to be alive when taken up to Heaven.
Hell
Clergy dogma: We are bought and paid for slaves of God. Jesus shed His blood on the
cross which paid for us. God owns us so we must obey Him for His pleasure or we will suffer Eternal-Damnation in Hell. Pastor
Arnold Murray contributed to this dubious wit.
What
is Hell? How could Hell possibly affect you? If you were in the midst of Hell, felt nothing - due to lack of nerves,
were immune to Hell’s effects, could Hell be considered unimportant to you?
Could
Hell be seen as meaningless without the feelings of pain, fears, horrors and their intensities to you? Are bad, sad and hurt
feelings the only consequences Hell consists of? Could the reality of Hell be: No feelings - no pain. No pain - no Hell?
Have
you experienced Hell? If so, how do you like it? Could you explain it? Did your experience of Hell include bad or painful
feelings? Don’t your thoughts, jealousies, fears and agendas cause you pain, your own Hell? Can’t you now eliminate
surgical pain with anesthesia? Can’t you avoid agendas and people who tend to make your life a living Hell? Can’t
you avoid irrational and fearful thoughts of an Eternal-Hell?
Outside
of supernatural myth and fictitious poetry that started about 500 BC to intimidate and discipline the masses, is there any
current hard evidence of any place called Hell?
Are our feelings, fantasies and irrational fears real to others? Do we want them to be real to others? If so, can we
explain why?
God creating a Hell is just another example of a benevolent, kind, loving act on his part. Just think about it, if
there were no Hell, you'd be forced to dwell in God's presence, to hear Christians singing and worshipping for eternity, unable
to just "do your own thing".
Ecclesiastes.
3:19-21 For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other;
yet they all have one breath; so that man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go to one place; all are
of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Epicurus: Why should
I fear death? If I am - death is not. If death is - I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?
Except
the fable that Elijah went to heaven, without dying, in a chariot and 2 other similar but less described events,
the Old Testament insists that, in death, we return only to dust. There is no afterlife.
Ecclesiastes.
9:5 says: For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward: for
the memory of them is forgotten.
Psalm 6:5 David said to God: For in death
there is no remembrance of You (God) in the grave. Who shall give You (God) thanks?
Psalm 115:17 The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into
the silence.
Ecclesiastes. 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might;
for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (death / grave) , to which you are going.
If there is no more reward or torment,
then it is all over.
Emotions
We only have two
(2) EMOTIONS and their intensities.
There is not a
person alive, never has been and never will be, that has more than two (2) emotions. Those 2 emotions are your do wants,
your don’t wants and their intensities.
Each normal genetic
animal has numerous feelings that are identifiable and named. Feelings like love, jealousy and hate are easily identified
and often their emotional intensity can be measured. Don’t your feelings, in reality, communicate to you? After all,
you really don’t scratch your butt without an itch.
Could what is perceived
to be spirits, ghosts and demons be but your own confused feelings trying to communicate to you? Do we usually see them to
be more than what they are?
Could our 2 emotions,
our do wants and don’t wants and their intensities manifest themselves to become our own personal Heaven and Hell? Hell
amounts to the bad, negative, physically hurtful and emotionally painful feelings that human beings experience. In competition,
can’t one person’s Heaven become another’s Hell? One wins and feels good while another loses and feels bad,
maybe even pain. How could Hell be experienced without feelings?
Many clergy have
stated that when a human being dies, they enter a spiritual or ethereal body that has no feelings. If that were the
case, then experiencing Hell would be no more painful than a trip to the movies.
Hypothesis: Feelings
must be the keys to Heaven and Hell. Getting “do wants” is our Heaven. Getting “don’t wants”
is our Hell. GWD
Questions to God:
Are you all-knowing?
God: Yes.
Then, why did You condemn mankind for
Adam and Eve's sin if you knew what would happen?
God's answer:
What one
person, who you know, would be impacted if sent to this site?
Any corrections, feedback or comments?
Thank You!
