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I made the illustration not to be caustic, but to make sure she understood my question if she thought hell was a physical place.
If you want to be technical there is no such thing as a living Christian; like Kamikazees, all the good ones are killed in practicing[their faith]
after all to follow Christ and his life is to martyr yourself, tho those with a metaphysical bent would use 'self' in a more Buddhist sense.
as for your claim to not be afraid of death, well, I've been close to death as well, and familiarity did not breed comfort for me.
can I ask how you know not to be afraid of something you've never experienced?
or is your stance, I've never experienced it, so why should I fear it, not knowing whether it is an unpleasant experience or not?
Logic would say it's not rational to say death is nothing to be afraid of, if one has no data on the matter
all we can do is shrug our collective scientific shoulders
LOL on the comment about the pastor. Do agree with you that Christians come in all flavors. I do have quite a few Christian friends. We have just learned to agree to disagree and leave it at that.
I just don't fear the inevitable. Death is going to happen to all of us. We can make certain concessions as I have done to try to delay that fact but it is not under our control. I don't fear going to hell, no fear of judgment or condemnation. I don't fear the unknown (maybe looking forward to seeing the rest of the show I missed). I just don't fear it. I have seen others die right in front of me. A couple with the most pleasant smiles on their faces. I've always been a bit different regarding these matters. But we should all make the most of the one life that is known. Never assume anyone is correct as to what is on the other side.
a thought:
maybe the Pastor thought I was 'unsaved'
maybe the Pastor meant if I kept digging long enough I'd die of a heart attack
and end up in hell that way!
:-)
I don't fear death in the abstract either, but abstract and conceptualizing it, and having one foot in the bucket is two different things
I'm afraid to die in that I'm afraid to leave this life 'unfulfilled'
as for the experience of dying, what it feels like, it may be the most pleasurable feeling available to us, for all we know
and as perverse as life is in all its contradictions and paradoxes, having the most pleasant thing in life being leaving it would seem entirely appropriate to me