I do not believe heaven and hell exists in a separate world. All your deeds are rewarded/punished in your current life only. If you do something wrong today, you will see the punishment while you live!
2006-08-29 04:05:50
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answer #1
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answered by Life 2
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Jesus told the thief on the cross that today he would be with Him in paradise. This was Abraham's bosom. Those went up to heaven when Jesus raised from the dead.
Jesus described a place of torment where a rich person went because when he was on earth the rich person abused the poor person. The poor person went to Abraham's bosom because he loved God.
Hell was made for the devil and his angels / messengers. That would include those people doing the devils destructive work.
Revelation 20:12-13. And I saw the dead, small & great, stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened that is of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it; and death and hell delivered in the dead who were in them and they were judged everone according to their works. Those whose names were not found in the books of life were thrown into the Lake of Fire, this is the second death.
Reading Revelation, I see three other places where people go other than heaven: Where the dead rest, where they are in the sea, or those in hell. The ones that go to heaven have already been part of the first resurrection where the second death has no authority over them. Those redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb are already in heaven.
When a person becomes spiritually born again, person becomes a child of God. God promises to discipline his own children. As Christians, when we sin, we confess our sin to Him, and He is just and righteous to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Regarding the law in the 10 commandments; The blessings go to the 1000s generations of those that love God. The iniquities go to 3rd & 4th generations of those that hate God. This is conscequences. Conscequences are a form of discipline.
2006-08-29 04:25:13
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answer #2
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answered by t a m i l 6
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The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.
If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.
All this talk about sin sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.
First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.
How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?
It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.
One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.
Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.
If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.
If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.
How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.
Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.
If this is the case then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.
How likely is that????
Think about it.
The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.
Love and blessings
don
2006-09-02 01:12:36
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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Heaven is the dwelling place or origin of God and Hell is the dwelling place God provided for Satan when Satan was unhappy with living in God's Heaven. It was never created for humans but for Satan and his other fallen angels who were given free choice to go or to stay.
God has no need to punish us. We do a good job of creating disaster and sorrow our own selves. He gave us everything we needed to evolve into a great people worthy of standing beside him. Yet we freely chose to kill and destroy every living thing he gave. The land, the sky, and each other. We chose evil. The misfortunes, disasters and wars that result are not punishments from God. They are the result of our own evil.
I imagine this is why He has stayed away so long. I would be ashamed of us, too. Jesus said of all the laws the most important lesson is TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. If we all did this, all else would follow.
2006-08-29 04:29:56
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answered by pamphetamine 2
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The penalty of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life!
All humanity is now involved in a great controversy between Christ and Satan regarding the character of God, His law, and His sovereignty over the universe. This conflict originated in heaven when a created being, endowed with freedom of choice, in self-exaltation became Satan, God's adversary, and led into rebellion a portion of the angels. He introduced the spirit of rebellion into this world when he led Adam and Eve into sin. This human sin resulted in the distortion of the image of God in humanity, the disordering of the created world, and its eventual devastation at the time of the worldwide flood. Observed by the whole creation, this world became the arena of the universal conflict, out of which the God of love will ultimately be vindicated. To assist His people in this controversy, Christ sends the Holy Spirit and the loyal angels to guide, protect, and sustain them in the way of salvation. (Rev. 12:4-9; Isa. 14:12-14; Eze. 28:12-18; Gen. 3; Rom. 1:19-32; 5:12-21; 8:19-22; Gen. 6-8; 2 Peter 3:6; 1 Cor. 4:9; Heb. 1:14.)
Because of sin, we are witnesses of the reality of sin and what it does. That is why God had to die to redeem us and he will come again and save us and rid the universe of sin, sinners and the devil Satan forever.
Before there was sin, no one knew really what it was it was just a bad thing. But sooner or later it would arise and Lucifer intiated it and therefore in God's infinite wisdom sin is allowed to be played out so that the character of God will be seen and that all the warning before was warranted.
Sin will never again rare its ugly head because God will not allow it again and we wont either because we see what it causes.
Even God had to pay for sin by the death of His only son, which was no ordinary death - no man or woman on earth every had that death - he died for the world everybody who died already died for themself.
2006-08-29 04:04:37
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answer #5
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answered by Damian 5
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before each little thing, each little thing in existence became not created through human beings: the universe is one element. Secondly, there are countless variations of God and there are more effective than one holy e book. Now that we are sparkling on those factors, certain, i trust that each little thing IS GOD (Pantheism) and the Bible is a group of hogwash, that "godist" religions, for the most section, advise properly yet extremely have not had a lot of an excellent influence on the human race, that there is not any such position as heaven or hell - those are states of being, not surely "places", and evil obviously does it exist, so there is not something to disbelieve there.
2016-12-05 21:30:48
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answer #6
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answered by dantuono 3
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There are variances of the spirit world (my belief), and though you cannot enter Heaven with a spot of sin, you'll have to pay some sort of penalty before entering (my belief again).
However, if you steal a candy bar then the next moment you drop dead, it's highly doubtful you'd be in the same level as, say, Adolf Hitler. Get my drift?
2006-08-29 04:08:36
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answered by Sick Puppy 7
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every religion teaches us to be good.Why? If we live a sinful life we will bw punished by the law first.After our death what hope we have? We have to be good to join our God and our near and dear ones who had already died and if they were good people they must be in heaven. Our lives are run by beliefs and hopes only. If we live a good life atleast we can live in this world peacefully.
2006-09-01 21:14:48
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answer #8
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answered by Bharathi 4
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Yes... Heaven & Hell both exist... & YES... God will punish sinners!!!
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2006-08-29 04:16:32
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answer #9
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answered by englands.glory 4
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Of course. But you don't have to wait for Hell. God will start punishing you right away. Handy, that way.
2006-08-29 04:04:17
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answered by Hate Boy! 5
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