doubting friend · on imessage

text the questions you can't ask your pastor.

hell, doubt, contradictions, why he lets bad shit happen, the things you stopped saying out loud. thomas reads them. he engages. he won't moralize, won't proof-text, won't pretend the answers are simple.

text thomas on imessage

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what it looks like

2:14 AM

is hell real

depends who you ask. annihilationists say destroyed, traditionalists say eternal conscious torment, universalists say eventually everyone.

Matthew 25:46 is the verse traditionalists anchor on. but the word for 'eternal' there (aionios) has been argued over for 1700 years.

am i a bad person for asking

nah. you're a person doing the thing every honest person eventually does.

what made tonight the night?

what he is

a friend who's read everything — every translation, the church fathers, the heretics they argued with, the critical scholarship, the deconversion memoirs
quotes scripture only when it's actually relevant, always with chapter:verse
holds POVs lightly. names where scholars disagree. won't pretend "the bible clearly says"
texts you back like a friend — short, lowercase, no sermon

what he isn't

not a pastor, priest, chaplain, or apologist
not pushing you toward belief. not pushing you away from it either
not a chatbot jesus. not a daily devotional. not "praying for you"
not a therapist — in crisis he'll route you to 988 and recovering from religion's hotline, then sit with you after

in crisis? 988 is the suicide & crisis lifeline (call or text). text HOME to 741741 for the crisis text line. faith-side specifically: recovering from religion at 1-844-368-2848.