Originally posted by lausey
Compared to fear of ever lasting hell, I would say atheism is far more appealing.
yes yes, but it is not a biblical teaching, sorry to disappoint you. Hell is a corruption of the corresponding Hebrew and Greek words for the common grave of mankind, so you see my dear Lausey, you are arguing for a non biblical belief and then comparing it to an atheistic one. If you want to know what the Bible actually states as to the condition of the dead, please consider this verse,
(Ecclesiastes 9:5-6) For the living are conscious that they will die;
but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.
if there is no consciousness in death, then there can be no pain, comforting, isn't it, 🙂