Letting go of hell PART 3

I think that I may have stumbled on something important here, when it comes to hell’s absolute incompatibility with an all-powerful, all-loving God. Why? It’s not just that it is self-contradictory. It is that I truly cannot find anything more self-contradictory than this. God, the archetypal, loving father sends his children off to be tortured forever because they fail to understand his will? What?!

As I wrote the last sentence down, something strange happened. I felt a strong, pleasurable, energetic shiver and tears started running down my cheeks. As a matter of fact, I’m still crying a bit as I’m writing this and my body vibrates with energy. 

God’s goodness and perfect love and hell cannot co-exist, unless the idea of goodness that God himself instilled in us, runs totally contrary to the real idea of goodness. You cannot bring the idea of hell to its logical conclusion, without running into one total absurdity after another. 

Try it for yourself and see if you can find anything that that contradicts itself more than this: Absolute goodness and love, inflicting absolute pain and suffering for something someone has done because he/she didn’t know any better, for no good reason. Or even worse, because he/she failed to believe the right things in the face of insufficient evidence. This, I would say, is the perfect self-contradiction. The only way this could make any sense, would be if Satan was as powerful as God.

For the reasons presented in this series, I believe that the fear of hell is part of the fearful, negative programming instilled in us at birth. Thus, I believe that it is vital for each and everyone of us to do our best to let it go.