If? I can read and it sure looks as though the first three sentences prove without a doubt they are one and the same. The problem I see is the narrator is answering for somebody elses experience not allowing Zuangzi speak for himself.
You seem to do the same, telling me I am some sort of divine being, a little god. But I want to answer for myself and say to everyone here that nothing could be further from the truth. I know who I am, I know I dream and I know it is I who awake. I know I am a created being. I know my body is flesh and blood and will eventually see death.
In every way a very far cry from Abba El or any facsimile thereof.
Sin is the avoidance of guilt, to escape the pain of realising one's own responsibility.
I would say simply that sin is rebellion against God's Commandments. Something of which I am guilty of.
Hell is the pain of truth that sooner or later has caught up with the avoider.
Hell? It is not as you think it is Sheol, the grave.
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