“If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven and there's talk of people not getting into heaven, but it doesn't seem to me that the fundamental message of the gospels was one of guilt and retribution so much as love.” PeopleIfsLooksSeemsHeavenMessagesFundamentalsGuiltJudgementTestamentNew TestamentRetribution Author:Jonathan Franzen
“I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.” KnowsEndsCareReligionCoursesHeavenChristRealizingReligiousMarkNotionBitterJudgementDivinityWho CaresSkepticJudgement Day Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another; yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces we never saw; and, when we shall see the saints in glory without their infirmities of pride end passion, it will be a glorious sight.” KnowsEndsAgeChristianFacesPassionHeavenSawsDivinePrideBlessingGlorySightSaintChristian LifeJudgementGloriousLutherInfirmityChastisement Author:Thomas Watson