If you had the choice...

[the6thhappiness]

If you were given the choice between faith and eternal hell, which would you choose?

To even accept the question as a valid choice is to choose the former option.  There is no way to choose hell without choosing to believe in it.  The valid question (from my point of view) is, given the choice between faith and lack of faith, with the former

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[denouveauxyeux]

Hey! I set out to read the Bible by the end of the summer. After two nights, I gave up and started reading Arcana Coelestia. (I keep forgetting whose journal this is! It's so. Stupid. I've asked you before, right? I think I shall have to write it down if you tell me again - I'm really sorry. I don't know what's wrong with my brianthing.)

I ask now since I'm not sure whether or not you'd be familiar with the Arcana. It makes sense of everything in the Old Testment. Sheds a lot of light on (what I know of) the New Testment, too - although it doesn't dissect the NT. I'm having trouble putting it down. Reading about 40 pages a night and it makes a difference!

[the6thhappiness]

It's Genai. Don't worry, I'm not sure I ever told you... So yeah I know about the Arcana - but I'm working my way through major world religions (theoretically) - Swedenborgianism will have to wait its turn (if I ever get there -- I'm looking for an understanding of a majority, not for a religion for myself). But that's cool that you're getting so much from it.