Imagine a parent telling their 3-year-old child, “If you are good today and don’t spill your juice, put your toys away, take your nap without a fuss, and smile all day long, then you get to spend every day, for the rest of your life at Disneyland. If you don’t then you have to spend the rest of your days sitting in the corner thinking about what you did wrong”. No sane, imperfect, finite minded, parent would pull a stunt like that. So how come you “other Christians” believe that God, who is perfect, and filled with love would do something like that? It’s just plain WHACKED I tell ya!
2006-08-12 11:51:01 · 6 answers · asked by Jedi Baptist 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually, there are no terms in the oldest Biblical Scrolls that translate as Hell, Hell Fire, or Eternal Damnation. Those are ideas and terms developed by those who want to be put on a pedestal and revered as being an authority on the Bible. When everyone is equal in a religion, taught equally, and there is no one who gets is always the single head of the church, because everyone is qualified to lead, than using the threat of eternal damnation is not needed.
2006-08-12 12:00:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
In the first place, God does not say "If you're good you'll go to heaven but if you're bad you'll go to hell." He said "If you love me than you'll follow my commandments. Since you are sinners and I, a Holy God, cannot let sinners into my abode you must do what I have given you as a means of removing your sin so I can let you have the Paradise I promised you. I, Myself, have come to earth and paid the penalty for your sin. If you will believe what I have done, ask Me to forgive you, and allow me to live my Holy example through you, you may join me in Paradise. If you choose to go your own way then you may exist in the place that I have told you ahead of time would be yours--Hell. You can live for eternity in the place of your choosing. I long for you to be with Me but if you prefer following your own lusts to following Me, then enjoy!"
Pretty simple, I would say.
2006-08-12 19:21:38 · answer #2 · answered by Ellen J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We "other Christians" as you call us, don't believe God does that...If He did, then there would be no such thing as sin and justification, Which is for you smaller brain-sized people, "just-as-if-I-never-sinned". There would be no need for Heaven or Hell. This means that since Jesus Christ died on the cross, for our sins, we are forgiven if we believe and ask God for forgiveness...every day...We will never be perfect, therefore we will never be God...so of course we will do bad things, but through Christ, we are forgiven!
2006-08-12 19:02:06 · answer #3 · answered by yoohoosusie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
whacked? whazzzdat? I thought eternal damnation was the same as eternal death of the soul. Ashes, Muahahahaha!
2006-08-12 18:59:00 · answer #4 · answered by Cyber 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A rather flawed take on things, don't you think?
2006-08-12 18:57:05 · answer #5 · answered by Electric_Napalm 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
¿Qué WHACKED significa?
2006-08-12 18:55:12 · answer #6 · answered by dt 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋