2006-09-01 18:24:10 · 35 answers · asked by sueflower 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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 01:10:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God hates sin, and we cant possibly know how much. God will not allow sin in heaven. Everyone is a sinner. Now then, the only way a sinner can get into heaven is to be cleaned first which is by the blood of Christ and even with all our good work we do for a lifetime God counted it all as filthy rags and also said we all came short of the glory of God. the point is that God created hell for the sin that satan and his angels commited. So He promised us the same thing. Thats His rules so either we listen or we dont. By the way, it isnt God sending the lost to hell but the lost themselves for rejecting His salvation.
2006-09-01 19:12:23 · answer #2 · answered by Airman_P 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Look at it another way, a mere speaking of confessing your sins, and accepting Jesus as your Savior, compared to an eternity of torture.
2006-09-01 18:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by Michael R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Comparing the time taken to commit an offense to the length of the sentence is dangerous work. Murder takes only a few seconds, or less, but you can get a life sentence, however long it takes for you to die. Is that unjust?
This is really not the argument I want to make anyway. The point is that God cannot accept imperfection to dwell with Him. Our sins make us imperfect, forever without Jesus Christ. If we are imperfect forever, then we must be separate from God forever. When this brief period of time we are living in passes, there will only be two places of existence for human souls; New Jerusalem with God and the lake of burning fire. If you are imperfect you cannot live with God. Jesus removes our sins, and thus we can dwell with God.
How just is it that one man had to die for all of our sins? Perfectly just. He was willing, God was willing, and we get the benefit. People want to say that God is not just because the sentence is too harsh but they don't want to look at the other side. Jesus died without sin, and yet died because of sin, our sin.
God is just; sin has a price: death. Jesus died to pay that price, but if you don't accept that, then you have to pay the price yourself: spiritual death, the second death, which in opposition to our thoughts on death means suffering forever but never passing out of existence
2006-09-01 18:38:31 · answer #4 · answered by hisnamesaves 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is quite just seeing that an opportunity is granted with each new day to make choices to ensure a place in heaven.
The just aspect about salvation is a newcomer gets the same pay of eternal life that a veteran saint gets.
2006-09-01 18:36:24 · answer #5 · answered by divabylaw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not an eternity of torture. The smoke from the fire of hell is eternal as a constant reminder but the suffering is not. God loves us too much. The souls relegated to hell are annihilated and cease to exist. Absence from God and existence is the punishment, not eternal torture and damnation.
2006-09-01 18:29:40 · answer #6 · answered by darcys_wifey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The impact and effect of 'a life time of sin' lasts much longer than ones life and is borne by countless generations that follow.The punishment of sin is meted out collectively, ones family, ones country and the human society at large bear the consequences of ones actions.
2006-09-01 18:35:11 · answer #7 · answered by jarad_us 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are spirit beings born into a fleshly existence. This is our time to learn about God and choose His path. The time spent here is temporary. When we leave this life, we move on to an eternal one as the spirit beings that we truly are. Therefore, the choices we make here determine what happens to us on the other side.
2006-09-01 18:30:33 · answer #8 · answered by Danny H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok, let's think of it this way. Everybody who has broken the laws of this land and killed somebody, serial killers, child molester, and such, we should just let go and say, that because you decided to not obey the laws that we will just let you go, and show you nothing but love........No hard feelings. If God has given you laws to go by, and has told you what the punishment is, so feel you should just go and do what you want and it is O.K? It is not that God wants to punish you, but it is that you decided to not accept the law and when you did that, you said that the punishment was O.K. Don't get mad now, because you gonna get a whooping for breaking the cookie jar.
2006-09-01 18:36:21 · answer #9 · answered by savvyd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all sin is ultimately against God. God is an eternal and infinite Being. As a result, all sin is worthy of an eternal punishment. He cannot allow sin to go unpunished. That is why God sent Jesus Christ to pay the penalty for our sins. Jesus’ death was an infinite death, paying our infinite sin debt – so that we would not have to pay it in Hell for eternity. All we have to do is place our faith in Him and we are saved, forgiven, cleansed and promised an eternal home in heaven. If we reject His gift of eternal life, we will face the eternal consequences of that decision
2006-09-01 18:27:06 · answer #10 · answered by chained6002 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋