• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      It isn’t voluntary if you know you will go to hell if you don’t. That’s the illusion of choice. If I threatened to take a baseball bat to your head unless you acted nice to someone who didn’t deserve it, chances are you would go along with it. You got a reason and a threat. It’s a choice in a very very loose sense of the word. Hell is an infinity of pain, thus there is no choice.

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      11 days ago

      And between believers of the faith. Context for the verse makes you understand that these people were not just just knowing each other, they were inside a fellowship. They know each other intimately, not just a bunch of unknown people sharing just because

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        11 days ago

        Yeah its like a big family, and we are all socialists when you get down to a smaller group of our family or community.