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Yeah I remember being taught in church about forgiveness and love. And then taught about Lucifer being kicked out to hell forever, no chance of redemption. It didn’t make sense to me, even as a kid. I think I asked a Sunday school teacher about it and got a nonsensical rationalization.
It's just nonsensical rationalizations all the way down.
Probably because the whole Lucifer Story is apocryphic and was pierced together/made up by church teachers. It doesnt fit with the message of the New Testament one bit.
Also, most of the Bible is stolen from other religions & spiritualities that existed around before it was all codified.
"Stolen" is a bit of a harsh word, it was normal for the various religious cults back then to influence each other
Harsh but accurate.
Dude I'm pretty Sure there wasnt a person going "I'll steal this from another religion". That's not how things go
That’s exactly how it goes. They take from other religions so it’s easier for their religion to take hold.
expanding on this, even the existence of eternal hell is fairly controversial among theologians. this is from the page on [Christian Univeralism]:(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_universalism)