If God loves everyone, why punish some for eternity for not coming to Him? 100,000,000,000 years to eternity is a drop in the bucket. To say you will be tortured in Hell with fire and darkness (how there can be fire with no light is beyond me), shows that God may not be all that loving and forgiving after all. I could be wrong but in the end, I feel that God will take everyone, even Luicifer, back into His fold. Luicifer was, after all, His favorite angel.
2006-07-29 09:33:32 · 22 answers · asked by jdnmsedsacrasac1 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I completely agree with you. If God is as loving and merciful as I know him to be, then he will, at the very lest, give everyone a second chance in heaven. I don't care what some book written by man says.
There is a thing that Wayne W. Dryer calls "the silent knowing". It's where your soul just knows something - like I just know that God is loving. You don't need a book to tell you what to believe because your soul already knows. It's quite an amazing concept and one that I've experienced through out my life.
2006-07-29 09:49:04 · answer #1 · answered by Joa5 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Show me one place in the bible that it says anyone will burn for all eternity and I will give you $25,000 cash money. Why would God take anyone into Heaven that would not be happy there? Do you really think that Lucifer would be happy there now? No way!! Why would God say that he was to die, to be burned up, to be turned to ashes and be no more if he were to be taken back to Heaven? I will gladly give you all the scripture to back up every word I am saying if you want it and are interested. Each of us has a choice of who we want to serve, God or Satan, and as such we really choose if we want to go to Heaven or to Hell and die the second death as it stated in the bible. The wicked are to be burned up, turned to ashes, die, not live for all eternity in Hell as most will tell you. That is a lie of Satan that you can find in Genesis 3:4. YOU will NOT surely die, says Satan but God says you WILL die. Who are you going to believe, God or Satan? The Creator or the created? There is no eternal life in Hell without Jesus but only death. Check out the site below and do some of the studies and you will find the truth. Lucifer may have been God's favorite at one time but no more. He will be thrown into the fiery pit that was prepared for Satan and his angels that followed him along with those that follow Satans teachings, that choose him over God. All in the bible if you but just read it and study it. Check it out and see if you can find that elusive verse that says anyone will be tortured in Hell for all eternity. You will find a lot more than you bargain for that will give you hope.
2006-07-29 10:04:02 · answer #2 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LoL. Lucifer WAS NOT his favorite angel at all, simply the most beautiful. Michael (the ONLY, I REPEAT ONLY Archangel) was his Favorite. It was Michael that went before Israel as a Pillar of Fire and Smoke and they followed him for forty years. HE is the Guardian Angel of the Nation of Israel (read The Book of Daniel). So Michael was his pre-eminent favorite, not Lucifier.
WHERE people get OTHER arch-angels from, is beyond me, there is ONLY ONE (1) mentioned in the ENTIRE BIBLE. PERIOD.
Another thing, in The Book of Revelation, Chapter 20:14 & 15 it says 14. And Death and Hades were hurled into the Lake of Fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire. 15. Furthermore, whoever was not found written in the Book of Life was hurled into the Lake of Fire."
So, here we see that:
1) DEATH and HELL were to be cast into the Lake of Fire "which means the second death" or according to the Holy Spirit, "eternal destruction." So Hell and Death WOULD BE NO MORE. EVER.
2) God CANNOT take Lucifer back into his fold. Ever. While mankind has a "redeeming sacrifice" paid for his sins. One which Satan tried SEVERELY to destroy. In fact, the VERY FIRST PROPHESY in the Bible is about Christ and Satan's fight at Genesis 3:15, where it says that "And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel." Meaning that Satan will be forced to reside in Spritual darkness (unable to use his FULL faculties) while Christ will die for 3 days and come back to Immortal glory to God's kingdom as a more powerful ruler than before.
So, mankind had an "out" or that is, God seemed to have a sacrifice planned for mankind in case of his "fall" almost BEFORE he fell. Wow, how kind was that? While it took almost 3 to 4,000 years from Adam to Christ's sacrifice, the important thing is, Jesus died humbly as a perfect man, so that as the "2nd Adam" all other MEN might live through him!
Angels HAVE NOT been provided a "propitiatary sacrifice for the expiating and blotting out sins" where HUMANS HAVE! No one Angel has sacrificed himself on BEHALF OF ALL OTHER ANGELS to repay their sins! LOL. Also, Satan doesn't WANT forgiveness, when your "in the right" why would you? He feels its God that's in the wrong, not him.
2006-07-29 10:25:39 · answer #3 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. God is not going to take everybody to heaven. He is giving everyone a chance to get there while there on this earth. If they deny God on earth He will deny them in heaven and they wiil eternity in HEll. You say cannot imagine fire and darkness, sin is darkness and since you have lived your whole life in sin and darkness, it seems fitting to make Hell dark because of sin. You have a very wrong and dangerous opion about eternity.
2006-07-29 09:45:29 · answer #4 · answered by twobyfour 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satans fate is already sealed and he knows it that is why he is trying to take as many people to hell(lake of fire) as he can! The lake of fire was prepared for satan and his demons when Lucifer fell from grace but because men have sinned and not accepted Jesus, they will go there too!
Salvation can only be found in Jesus! No other way leads to eternal life!
2006-07-29 09:41:27 · answer #5 · answered by zoril 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil
2006-07-29 09:37:06 · answer #6 · answered by Exodus 20:1-17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is incorrect. In the end, God will bring all believers with Him to Heaven, and all who remain will go to Hell with Satan for eternity. God created man to demonstrate His love, but also give free will. Anyone who goes to Hell puts themself there.
2006-07-29 09:38:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the end Satan, Lucifer, the Old Dragon will not be judged.
He has already been judged and sentenced to death!
He and the damned will be thrown in to the Lake of fire to die.
After that you (if you are still around) will not remember Satan, or anyone else thrown in the to the lake.
2006-07-29 11:18:42 · answer #8 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No actually He won't.
And unfortunately you have the wrong - very wrong opinion of God and His love and mercy.
It is a matter of choice. And God, who is the same today, yesterday and tomorrow will never break His own law and the laws of the universe.
2006-07-29 09:37:32 · answer #9 · answered by IN Atlanta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not send people to hell...hell is separation from God. Those who choose not to be with God in this life get what they want in the next life, namely separation from God
2006-07-29 09:39:26 · answer #10 · answered by apex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋