Reply To: Body of hell beings, their location and detection

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taryal
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Yash wrote: “Then they will repeat the same answer! ” We also have compassion and want to spread Christianity to every person”

I know they will say that. But if their God is as almighty and compassionate as they say he is, they shouldn’t need to spread their religion. Someone born in a place like North Korea, for example, wouldn’t have a chance to get any exposure to this anyway. If God wants all of us to be Christian, everyone should be born in a Christian family. Animals in the wild shouldn’t need to kill and eat each other to survive too.

On a shallow level, it might look they’re the same things but someone with even a basic understanding of Dhamma knows it is light years ahead of cartoon Bible. A Sakadagami obviously wants to do their best to help others before they die. But their help doesn’t involve telling people to embrace some divine imaginary sugar-daddy with cheap faulty promise of eternal life and threats of eternal damnation otherwise. It involves teaching people how they can use their own efforts to see the suffering associated with this world and ultimately be free from it.

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