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In this state, things like intimate relationship with God, and his
love, peace and joy seem like theological gibberish. Satan has
you where he wants you. If he can’t keep you from going to
heaven, he wants to make death a miserable, non-spiritual
experience.
People spend their lives buried under a pile of rules (I refer to it
as ‘Religious Do-Do’). None of us live all the rules and standards
that we should live by. We know we haven’t lived up to them, so
if this is our mindset, death is usually agonizing.
We even can entertain thoughts of going to hell if we’re Christian.
There is a mixture of this rule-based thinking that tends to mix
both good and bad together. You might call it ‘A Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil’ type of mindset.
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