Why does God punish people who do not serve him?

Question

christians tell me that I need to worship God or else I will go to hell.

Answer 1

fear motivates some people

Answer 2

I Muslim, and Muslim people believe in the same god as christian and Jews, but Muslims believe that the Jewish and christian religion has been changed over time by there people and it is now full of lies. Muslims believe that the Islam is the last religion, and it is the only true religion.

Any way, i think that science and Islamic religion agrees with each other. Muslims believe in determinism, which means that future is constant, and it can't be changed, so human don't have free will, and free will is just an illusion. All human behavior is affected by the environment that they live in. Humans are just an intelligent machine, and that was proved by science. People who will go to hell will go there because that what god wants, it is not there fault. Also, people who say that god is good are stupid. God is neutral, he is not good and he is not bad. Also, there is no such thing as good or evil, good and evil is just something relative, and it is an illusion.

Answer 3

While it is true, according to the Bible, not me, that those who don't serve and follow him will eventually spend eternity in Hell, it is wrong for Christians to tell you that in such a manner.

God doesn't punish anyone who doesn't serve him, it's those who don't serve that punish themselves. Most ppl take the Bible out of context and add or remove things to justify there own lives and how they WANT to live rather than how they SHOULD live according to the Bible.

That's why there are so many different religions so closely related. One branched off from another because some ppl felt that they couldn't do this or do that so they started their own church that allowed them to do as they pleased. This has happened for centuries so now we have thousands of religions, which are so off the mark it's not even funny.

Answer 4

It is very difficult to answer a question about religion, unfortunately is has become a very delicate issue. I do not think God punishes, God gives lessons. There are people that have never heard about God, but a lot of these people live quietly and peacefully. It's people who have made God a punisher not God. So live the best you can, respect others and you will see everything is going to be OK.

Answer 5

Dear Rombert,

I will speak somewhat loosely here, akin to a parable, to try to answer your question in a general way, however imperfectly. Think of it this way. God has such high regard for you that He will respect your choices. If you choose to have nothing to do with Him, He will accommodate you by letting you live forever away from the blessings of His presence. He will not drag you forcibly into heaven against your will. Instead He will ratify your will, effectively saying "thy will be done...depart from me." A term that Jesus used to describe this place is "outer darkness." The punishment you refer to may be nothing more than to let you have your own way. But don't think that this would be a small thing, as even the many blessings that you now receive daily would be gone. That would be a terrible thing, if you can imagine it.

Answer 6

Check a good concordance. Hell is "the grave". Has anyone explained to you what serving Him entails? He "created " everything. He knows how He made it to work. Serving Him is simply obeying His rules. He tells us how to have no diseases. How only good consequences come from doing things His way. Just as an example: If man would have paid attention to His instructions in Leviticus he wouldn't have had to rediscover the germ theory of disease in the 1800's. The punishment is mostly the consequences of doing things they way He never intended for them to be done.

Answer 7

I empathize 4 ya, Because I Praise God
"To The Best of my Ability", & I at times feel punished for a negitive action or decisions that
I've made without thinking.
Not only am I accountable for my own actions,
But I realize that my Higher Power doesn't place
me in these situations that i expierance, But "He" As I believe Allows me to expierance certain encounters to accumilate strength & character, & though I may encounters head-on w/the devil, he/it still can't do any harm to me unless my Higher Power gives His AUTHORITY
to do so.
NOW!
If your biological Father will do anything to protect you with-in reason.
It seems practally logical to praise a God, Father, Higher power that would protect me even if I Am at fault, and also pick me up, brush
me off, forgive me, And again send me right back out there to see if I've accumilated enough wisdom through trial & tribulation to "AVOID" making the same mistake again.
Provided it was a mistake the first time, But either way, He's got your back, I know, Because you're my "Spiritual" brother reguardless of your action.
That makes Him "OUR" Father in Heaven.
So if He'll do it for me I know that he'll do it for you, and I'm a sinner, I can't even cast any stones.
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Spiritually Speaking. I LOVE YOU, whoever you are.

Answer 8

GOD IS BENEVOLENT. HIS LOVE IS COMPLETE. IF YOU HAD A CHILD AND THEY DISOBEYED YOU, HOW WOULD YOU MAKE SURE THAT THEY DID NOT DO IT AGAIN. .... AND IS YOU PUNISHING OR REDIRECTING THEM DONE IN LOVE ..... FOR THEIR BEST INTEREST .... TO HELP THEM BE RESPONSIBLE AND HAVE THE KIND OF LIFE THAT IS PROSPEROUS. GOD HAS GIVEN ALL OF US FREE WILL. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMEONE WHO LOVES AND OBEYS GOD AND SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T IS THAT THE PERSON WHO IS A CHRISTIAN HAS THE BENEFIT OF GOD'S PROTECTION AND COMFORT WHICH BRINGS FORTH PERSEVERANCE. BAD THINGS HAPPEN IN LIFE. SOME SEE IT AS GOD IS PUNISHING THEM. CHANGE SOMETIME BRINGS PAIN. THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S BAD. THE BIBLE SAY THE SUN SHINES ON THE RIGHTEOUS AS WELL AS THE UNRIGHTEOUS AND IT RAINS ON THE JUST AS WELL AS THE UNJUST. WHY NOT HAVE SOMEONE WITH IMMEASURABLE POWER IN YOUR CORNER. AND CHRISTIAN MAY TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE GOING TO HELL IF YOU DON'T WORSHIP GOD BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT ONLY GOD CAN MAKE THAT CALL. HE DOES SAY IN THE BIBLE THAT IN ORDER TO BE SAVED YOU NEED TO CALL ON THE NAME OF JESUS. ALL THAT DO THIS, WILL BE SAVED. FOR JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD AND THEY ARE ONE.

Answer 9

God does not punish people for not serving him...
Bad thing that happen to you as a consequence of the bad thing we do
There are so many who don't know God for no mistake of theirs...
Do you think god will punish them????
Of Course not..
A Father does not create children to be his servants!!!!!
You just need to love God with a true heart....

Answer 10

in the first place, God is a forgiving God.Whatever how big your sin was ,he can forgive you. God did not punish people who dont serve Him but its a matter of ..you have to remember Him.If you dont serve Him, then God will thought that you forget Him. So, to be able to remember Him , He will send a certain stimulus in which you have to respond in this call (remember Him)

Answer 11

What they ought to be telling you is that God loves you so much that He came to earth in a body of flesh, in order to live as a Man among men...He experienced everything any other man experiences, including every temptation every other man experiences. He came to teach us face to face how we ought to live in love for one another. Finally, He sacrificed that body of flesh on the altar of our sin. What they ought to be telling you is how God yearns for you, how He is not willing that you should perish, but that you should have everlasting life.
They ought to be telling you that God wants to adopt you into His family as His Own child, and not as a servant.
They certainly ought not to be telling you about "hell", which is nothing more than the grave, and which will, along with it's companion, death, be destroyed along with all things that cause suffering and harm in order that God's children will have a new world to live in forever in peace.
I'm sorry that you have had Christians try to frighten you into "serving God". Shame on them. Rather, come to Jesus because He loves you.