why would a God of Love Torture inferior humans for eternity?

Question

Imagine, for a moment, the following horrific scene: A person is being roasted on a hot iron plate. In his agony he screams for mercy, but nobody listens. The torture goes on and on, hour after hour, day after day—without pause!

Whatever crime the victim may have committed, would not your heart go out to him? What of the one who ordered the torture? Could he be a loving person? In no way! Love is merciful and shows pity. A loving father may punish his children, but he would never torture them!

Nevertheless, many religions teach that God tortures sinners in an eternal hellfire. This, it is claimed, is divine justice. If that is true, who created that terrible place of eternal torment? And who is responsible for the excruciating agonies inflicted there? The answers would seem obvious. If such a place really exists, then God would have to be the creator of it, and he would be responsible for what happens there.

Can you accept that? The Bible says: “God is love.” (1 John 4:8)

An Unreasonable Teaching

Still, many believe that the wicked will go to a fiery hell and be tormented forever. Is this teaching logical? The human life span is limited to 70 or 80 years. Even if someone perpetrated extreme wickedness for his whole lifetime, would everlasting torment be a just punishment? No. It would be grossly unjust to torment a man forever for the limited number of sins that he can commit in a lifetime.

In order to be tormented, an individual has to be conscious. Are the dead conscious? No. “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been

sorry if you misunderstood, by inferior humans. I mean inferior to the almighty God

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Answer 1

"Hell simply means mankind's common grave."

GOD does not have a fiery place where people are to suffer for ever and ever...

Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 : " The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all...All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going."

So if they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.

An inferior torture as you have described is not from our Heavenly Father, Satan is a god, a false god who has misguided some by false teachings even as to make some think GOD is to blame for so many things...

The true GOD is a GOD of LOVE...

Satan is behind any false teachings of the Holy Scriptures....... And Jesus said himself, there would be false Prophets...

Revelations 14:9-11; 20:10, "If any man worship the beast and him image, and recieve his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixuture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day and night for ever and ever."

The torment to which the above texts refer, it is note worthy that at Revenlation 11:10 reference is made to prophets that torment those dwelling on the earth, Such torment results from humiliating exposrue by the messages that these prophets proclaim. At Revelation 14:(-11 worshipers of the symbolic "beast and his image" are said to be tormented with fire and brimstone." This cannot refer to conscious torment after death because "the dead know not anything." Eccl. 9:5. What causes them to experience such torment while they are still alive is the proclamation by God's servants that worshipsers of the "beast and his image" will experience second death, which is represented by "the lake which burns with fire and brimstone." The smoke associated with their fiery destruction, asceds forever because the destruction will be eternal and will never be forgotten.

I know this is a lot but I hope it helps........ ♥

Answer 2

I don't know why a god of love (venus?) would torture inferior humans such as yourself. perhaps it's because you've been a naughy naughty little boy and you need to be spanked!
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damn it! (no pun intended) you didn't specify ur deity! well then, first off there's nothing in the bible about torture in hell, that stuff came about later on (dante did a lot of that work). in fact, the bible doesn't say a whole lot about hell other then that you shouldn't really want to be there but humans choose to go there anyway. there's a reference to the garbage dump outside jerusalem and some references in revelations to a lake of fire but that indicates near- instant annihilation rather then eternal torture (and everyone though world religion class had no uses).

so, to answer your question the question is a false premise in the first place, as in, "why do you beat your mother"?

Answer 3

He doesn't. Hell is a human concept. In reality, they probably get smoked rather quickly. See, those are the rules- you sin and don't offer a sacrifice, you pay the price. So Jesus was the 'ultimate' sacrifice, and we all just have to list him as our payment type, kind of how you'd list an insurance company on a doctor's paper (only completely different). And God can't just let people off scot free, because then that would mean he wasn't always right, and if God's not always right the universe would implode.

Answer 4

God doesn't do that. That is a lie of the devil to make people not love and trust God.

If you read the Bible carefully, you will find that the very last thing Jesus says in the Bible is "Behold, I come quickly and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his works shall be." If Jesus gives people their 'reward' for the life they've lived when he arrives at His second coming, then none are being 'rewarded' now.

Then if you read Thessalonians you will read about the resurrection. What would be the point of resurrection if 1/2 the people were burning and the other 1/2 were already in Heaven?

And where it says people go to everlasting punishment, it says punishMENT, not PUNISHING. Hell is at the end of the world and Scripture says it was prepared for the devil and his angels.

The devil is the originator of sin. The fires of hell are to purify the universe of sin. People who insist on holding on to the sin when God destroys sin, will have to be destroyed with the sin they refuse to let go of. That's a choice. No one has to hold on to sin.

The Bible describes the act of burning up sin (and people with it) as "his strange act." He says He "is not willing that any should perish."

When people die, their bodies turn to dust and their breath (spirit) returns to God. They sleep until He resurrects them and gives them life again. When God has to burn up sinners, they burn up and are gone. They don't burn forever.

Answer 5

Chris C has given the exact answer to this question. We humans were created to love God, not to turn our backs on him.
Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
We are either marching with God, or against God.
Revelation 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Even if we are lukewarm having 1 foot in the world's camp and 1 foot in God's camp we will still be spewed out of the Lord's mouth. Is it not better then to choose righteousness and purity. By choosing to ask Jesus Christ into your heart and change your life constantly, and by not following man's ways, you will shorly not be tortured. Instead, you will be loved.

Answer 6

You are wrong. Sin tortures people-God offers them a way out. He gets no pleasure in the suffering of anyone. Everybody forgets so easily that sin is the problem-not GOD-he is the solution to an eternity in hell.

Answer 7

Let's get this straight, God created Hell for Satan and his followers. It was not meant for humans. Unfortunately, sin entered the picture and man began to reject God and His one and only way to receive forgiveness of sin, Jesus. God cannot allow sin in Heaven, so if one dies unforgiven, he cannot enter Heaven. Those who go through life saying, "I don't believe in God, I don't believe in Jesus, I hate God, etc." will get what they wish when they die. They don't want God in their lives, so God will grant their wish upon their death. They will go a place where He isn't, and neither are any of His attributes (love, peace, joy, comfort, kindness, mercy, etc). By rejecting God, certain people choose the alternative, eternal life without Him.

Answer 8

Greg,
I'm not sure of what "inferior humans" you speak. But, the God of the Bible is a just and righteous God. We don't know exactly how he will judge people in His presence. The "torture" that you mention is more of an eternal separation from God as I understand it.

Answer 9

Unbelievers like Socrates and Gandhi "deserve it" ??!!

Revelations 20:10 - devil cast into "the lake of fire and brimstone...for ever and ever.

Revelations 20:12-15 - God judges the dead

Revelations 21:8 - "the fearful, and unbelieving...shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

Over 75% of Humanity fits into the "unbelieving" category, an even larger share of those who have lived and died before us.

The God of the Bible isn't the "God of Love". Jesus taught a lot of truths about Love, but remember what the "God of Love" worshippers did to him on Cavalry.

The God of the Bible isn't the God of Love. Consider how this "God of Love" chose to nullify sins he's allowed into this world. He tortures his "only son" to death. Wouldn't the God of Love say "I forgive you" and that would be that? Would a God of Love leave us in doubt about his existence? Wouldn't an all-powerful God of Love whisper into your ear and say "it'll be okay, I'm watching over you too."?

What God of Love requires us to -beg- him to -not- "lead us" into "tempation"? The God of the Bible expects it.

I don't see a God of Love in the Bible (II Kings 2: 23-24)

Answer 10

God doesn't torture people, Sweetness. People torture people (man, I feel like a commerical here....) who don't fit their views on what "god" should be or what religion should be. Sad. Love is the best thing any Being could give another. They can keep their Hell. I'm going Home.

Answer 11

The torture of which you speak is the reward one can get by severing himself/herself from God. Basically, it's all that's left for a person to experience.

If you're not going to believe in God, then don't bother worrying about having to spend eternity with God.