#Okay I guess the provocation was the years I spent in Sunday school being taught that LGBT people go to hell

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Do you ever think about how to a lot of Christians the verse that really spells out The Whole Deal for them is John 3:16 but like if you actually believed John 3:16 you would sound insane

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." (NRSVUE)

It literally says. If you believe in "the Son." You will not die and you will live forever.

IT DOESN'T SAY "well, first you have to die, and your body will just be dead, but then your spirit self will not go to hell to be tortured for eternity by Satan, but instead your spirit self will go to heaven and be happy with God for eternity."

But you know what the author did say? Three verses ago, in verse 13: "No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man". Bro is capable of talking about heaven, no metaphors or nothing. And he still didn't feel a need to add anything about how Christians get to go to heaven.

He literally meant. You will not die. And just be a guy on earth, just not dying.

He didn't need it to mean anything more complicated because he didn't have the hindsight of looking back over the past 2000 years to see that Christians die like normal people instead of living forever like Tolkien elves