Even if they were rotten to the core, and never asked you for forgiveness, would you damn them and cast them into a lake of fire if you had the power? Would you love and forgive them no matter what? Would you care for them regardless?
If you were Hitler's parents, would you send Adolf Hitler to hell, if you begat Hitler? Would you forgive your genocidal child? Even if they hated you?
2006-06-23 19:13:00 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
JESUS / GOD/ AND THE HOLY GHOST IS ALL OUR JUDGE AND JURY NO ONE ELSE HAS THE RIGHT TO JUDGE... IT STATES JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED,...
2006-07-06 14:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by stacey 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Only God can judge someone. It is said that if they repent their sins and accept God into their heart before they die they will be forgiven. However, if someone is rotten to the core, it is very unlikely that they will want forgiveness for in their mind they have done nothing wrong and do not need the Lord's forgiveness. In their mind, every evil thing they have done was justified. They are the truly delusional people beyond all hope of salvation (like Hitler).
As for whether or not I would still love my child, doesn't God love all his children regardless of whether or not they have accepted Him into their hearts and they continually sin? Who am I to take a different path? God is the example and I would follow His example.
2006-07-07 18:52:37 · answer #2 · answered by I love my husband 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only God can answer these questions. We are His children and it's not up to us to judge. As for Adolf Hitler, God judged him, and I'm no theologian, but I'm sure he's not with the Blessed Mother. Hitler's parents couldn't tell the future, and they would have been just as evil if they had killed him as an infant. That was God's will. As a mere human I wonder why God allowed so many people to die, though on second thought it wasn't God, it was Satan, the devil. God gave us free will, unfortunately many many people followed the wrong being.
2006-07-07 17:57:45 · answer #3 · answered by hollyltstarfleet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a parent, so I suppose that I'm not really qualified to answer this... But I will anyways.
I couldn't send anyone to an eternal torment. One lifetime of sins could never, ever warrent unending suffering! That is one thing that I can't in my wildest dreams understand or believe... While there are some things and some terrible acts that I as an imperfect being could never forgive, even of my child, I could never inflict that type of punishment.
2006-06-23 19:19:11 · answer #4 · answered by Risa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've asked a very good question. You're a thinking person. From what I understand, God would never damn us eternally. But there are "hellish" worlds where we can go temporarily, just as there are "heavenly" worlds where we can go temporarily. Just as we could never "damn" our beloved children forever for misbehavior, God does not damn us forever, either (imagine how much more He can love us than we can love our children). Ultimately it is up to us on how long we stay in a hellish world, or even a heavenly world. Our true home is far beyond these worlds. Now we must learn from our temporary stay here, no matter what situation we're in. And have total faith in God's love for us, and that He just wants us to be happy and free, and to love Him.
2006-07-07 14:07:54 · answer #5 · answered by nara c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the point of asking questions that are not even remotely possible? This extremism in your imaginary scenarios does not shed any light on human nature as we do not have these situations ordinarily occuring. And if they did happen to us well than we could answer. But otherwise we are just guessing.
By the way these children you describe are psychotic and need to be medicated too.
2006-06-25 14:49:01 · answer #6 · answered by Ouros 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would want to know why a parent would take such a blind eye to a child with problems that would evolve into extremes and do nothing until it is that far gone.
Punishing a child does not necessarily help them to learn to be better people.
Forgiveness is something that you do for youself, not because someone told you to do so.
Oh, and Lions don't eat mice, they watch over mice, even sick ones.
2006-07-07 16:11:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So your question really is... How could a loving God allow this stuff? and if He cant, he must not exits. Um...BS!!!
God is loving and caring and forgiving. But He is also JUST. And brother, justice is not always kind. There are consequences to EVERY SINGLE action we take. Thats just the way it is because thats HOW GOD MADE THE UNIVERSE. He's the boss. He made this world. He gets to make the rules.
I strongly suggest you get on board with that.
2006-07-07 07:37:25 · answer #8 · answered by Mark 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. God, like a good father, doesn't let his children get away with sinning their whole lives (while rejecting a 100 year max opportunity window to ask forgiveness) and expecting reward... You don't give your child his inheritance after he slaughtered his baby brother and told you he hated you and tried to kill you and for the rest of his life never even said sorry.
2006-07-06 17:16:59 · answer #9 · answered by Songbird 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of the full theory of "sin" is ill. there is sweet behaviour and irrelevant. the two are defined by potential of (a) the circumstances (e.g. killing in self-defence or defence of others may be appropriate even though it rather is a awful selection) and (b) the contribution made to happiness for the final style for the time of generations. there is the capture, relatively if we contain what the Buddhists call all "sentient beings". Even love may be a inappropriately utilized, making it irrelevant. Forgiveness has no longer something to do with it. So without resorting to Hell or different fantasies, definite, i might reluctantly smash Adolf, or a genocidal new child, as i might a terminally diseased animal of any variety, out of veneration for existence, and the fee I placed on my own humanity.
2016-10-31 09:40:09 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are obviously pointing out that God may not be all loving and forgiving because of the hell factor.
God is all loving and forgiving but we have to accept that love and forgiveness for it to take affect.
If your child hated you and was doing horrible things which hurt you and others you loved, you kept offering him your love and forgiveness no matter what he did...could he be loved and forgivenif he didnt accept it from you? If he kept saying "Bugger off dad I dont give a **** about you or that you love me and Im going to keep doing what Im doing" How could he have that love and forgiveness if he didnt accept it? And his actions would have consequences that you could not prevent because of his free will. What if he was destroying the lives of your other children (as adulterers, liars, theives, murderers etc do to Gods children)? How would you feel towards him?
God keeps offering His Loveand forgiveness regardless of what we have done to him or others. However if we choose to remain seperated from Him, because He gave us free will He can not stop the consequences from occuring without us allowing him to. People choose to refuse a relationship with God and to therefore adopt Satan as their father. They are thus choosing to make their eternal home with Satan. Hell was not created for Gods children but for Satan and his followers.
It is up to us to choose who we follow.
2006-06-23 19:30:35 · answer #11 · answered by angelvic_83 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋