Well, there have been a number of posts in this thread, spaced out over a couple of years, about whether Jesus is the only way, and about hell.
I am becoming partial to the Universalist notion that a loving deity would damn no one forever, an infinite punishment for finite "sins."
As a UU and a Pagan, I reject the notion of eternal hell, as well as the trinity, and Christ's divinity. I can understand how some would see Jesus as a source of great wisdom, but to say that he's the greatest source, the complete source, no... Besides being extremely presumptuous and arrogoant, that's basically saying that God quit speaking to human beings after 33 A.D., or whenever Jesus died. I believe there continue to be prophets to this day, and that all of us are potential prophets.
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