• @afraid_of_zombies
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      25 months ago

      It isn’t voluntary if you know you will go to hell if you don’t. That’s the illusion of choice. If I threatened to take a baseball bat to your head unless you acted nice to someone who didn’t deserve it, chances are you would go along with it. You got a reason and a threat. It’s a choice in a very very loose sense of the word. Hell is an infinity of pain, thus there is no choice.

    • @Shardikprime
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      15 months ago

      And between believers of the faith. Context for the verse makes you understand that these people were not just just knowing each other, they were inside a fellowship. They know each other intimately, not just a bunch of unknown people sharing just because

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Yeah its like a big family, and we are all socialists when you get down to a smaller group of our family or community.

        • @Shardikprime
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          15 months ago

          Yeah it always works for small amounts of people and breaks at biggest scales, we know