[Splendour]

"That's the reason it feels like you are being held to a higher standard than others - because you are making a claim. The atheists are not making any claim about the world, they are saying they dont believe what some other people say."

Hi Bunny...thanks for this clarification...I just seem to get a flurry of questions even when the OP isn't even mine...I never thought about it like you explained it...

On your hell question...I actually don't have a full answer at this time...Probably because I never have never worried much about going to hell...I always felt God was good even before becoming a Christian...I never felt like I had to put the screws to him to explain everything...I read the Bible and most of it makes sense...There are some areas like biblical history and a few really weird Old Testament bible stories (that it takes a biblical scholar to understand and interpret) that are hard to understand...the history of the bible and the identity of the old countries in the bible and a lot of hidden bible symbology (I believe Revelations is in some kind of Hebrew code to protect it from the Romans...John was in a Roman prison in Patmos and it wasn't an easy prison for him there either)...that is hard to understand...It takes patience and perserverance to read the Bible...most people won't do it...they always take the shortcut...I think if they took the long road it would make all the difference, but when its a spiritual journey everyone seems to look for the shortcut...Maybe that's why there are so many stories and parables...for all the people trying to take shortcuts or maybe just because in the early days of Christianity almost nobody could read, but they could recite stories...