Not really Anonymous; just not an LJ subscriber Margaret Middleton here.
I'll disagree with you on the eternal damnation. God is all-forgiving, but He gives us free will, including the right to make terrible mistakes, such as rejecting His salvation. Separation from God is as good a definition of eternal damnation as I can think of.
As for un/comfortable churches, have you sampled the Unitarian Universalists yet? (Even if you don't dig the services, they tend to have GREAT peripheral cultural programs.)
"I do not believe in a Gospel of...eternal damnation..."
Margaret Middleton here.
I'll disagree with you on the eternal damnation.
God is all-forgiving, but He gives us free will, including the right to make terrible mistakes, such as rejecting His salvation.
Separation from God is as good a definition of eternal damnation as I can think of.
As for un/comfortable churches, have you sampled the Unitarian Universalists yet? (Even if you don't dig the services, they tend to have GREAT peripheral cultural programs.)