Heaven Ungained - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.3 No.1, January 2016

Heaven Ungained ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1102214 426 Downloads 984 Views

Author(s)

Thomas Smythe

Affiliation(s)

North Carolina Central University, Durham, USA.

ABSTRACT

There has been quite a bit of literature on heaven of late. In this paper I state some claims that theistic philosophers and theologians have made about heaven, and make the concept of heaven incoherent. I maintain that it is possible for a rational individual to prefer not to go to heaven. Finally, I argue that it may be preferable for a person of moral integrity to decide that they want to go to hell given the immoral nature of many passages in the Bible.

KEYWORDS

Heaven, Hell, Inconsistency

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Smythe, T. (2016) Heaven Ungained. Open Access Library Journal, 3, 1-7. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1102214.

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