According to Christianity, if you go to Heaven you will be happy for all eternity and live in a utopian paradise, right? If you go to Hell, you'll be sentenced to pain, suffering, torture, and etc.... for all eternity, right?
So, how could a mother be happy in Heaven when the child she loves more than anything is being tortured in Hell for all eternity?
Seems like this Christian afterlife is impossible.
2006-09-02 06:08:20 · 19 answers · asked by Toronto 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Isn't it though? It makes no sense, yet they spew it all the time. I could almost resign myself to let them live a life in fear of God's retribution. EXCEPT, it is just too disgusting that they teach this crap to their children. It is my hope that even one person will see that bigotry and hatred is just that - bigotry and hatred. Nothing more!
2006-09-02 06:13:14 · answer #1 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I asked the Lord this question also. How can I be happy in heaven knowing that my family friends are in hell....easy. the former things are passed away. We will not remember this world...see below. However, I am determined to get my family saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost before Jesus returns. Be blessed.
The New Heaven and the New Earth
Revelations 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Isaiah 65:17 ¶ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
2006-09-02 06:24:42 · answer #2 · answered by raineywife@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God taught the mother to be so loving for her child and he can alter that if her child goes to Hell, she might just forget she had a child in the first place and her eternal happiness will come from something else (you can never feel sad about losing something if you think you never owned it)
it is a similar situation to a mother who is mentally ill, she will just forget all her motherly emotions towards her child, so it is possible
and God Knows Best
2006-09-02 08:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is not earth, first of all. We do not have the same bodies, nor do we have the same minds. There is no pain OR suffering. I can see you confusion, since as a human, we cannot fathom all that God has in store for us. Don't get hung up on the little things. There's no point. And buddy, its not impossible. Nothing is impossible with God.
2006-09-02 06:17:01 · answer #4 · answered by Cari 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it's the same picture with all other religions
they make merry,have wines entertained by fairies,angels all day long...it's really a merry boring day is'nt it?
and imagine your spouse making love with the angels
and your children looking at their parents
what do they say?
so the afterlife of every religion seems impossible
hence, stop being prejudice
anyway, nobody ever been or knows truly where it is
even the dead of the one you knew never gives a clue
cause they simply never been there
let's get real
look around you
the truth is out there
2006-09-02 06:27:34 · answer #5 · answered by St.Jon A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Be it mother or child the soul is seperate.
God has given us a conscience.
After a certain age any individual knows the right from wrong.
Any godly mother would have surely taught the child the doctrines and it is upto the child to accept it or reject it.
2006-09-02 06:14:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is simply being with God for eternity. Hell is simply being without God for eternity. It's questionable whether or not we'll know who else is in Heaven with us.
However, your question points out exactly why we here on earth work so hard to get the people we love to go to Heaven, because we don't know if we'll know them there or not.
2006-09-02 06:14:53 · answer #7 · answered by midlandsharon 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are assuming that we carry our earthly personalities with us into the afterlife.
You are also perhaps misunderstanding heaven and hell. I say "perhaps" because I've never been to either and so can't give you a report. Moreover, my mind, as yours and all others', has limited perception. We live inside of time and space, and the afterlife is outside of time and space. So our attempt to understand it is perhaps by necessity incomplete, if our vision of it has any accuracy at all.
The way I understand it, to be in heaven is to be united with God, and to be in Hell is to be apart from God. Those apart from God make the choice to be apart from God. God doesn't sentence people; people sentence themselves. While alive on earth, we have the choice to seek salvation or not. If we choose not, then we choose not. And so we choose our afterlife--since choices here echo in eternity.
That said, I have not been given the roster of who will be where at the end of time.
And, Christ has the power to save whomever he wishes to save.
A person who has chosen to serve God understands in full detail the implications of one who choses not to. And if a mother's child choses to be separated from God--i.e., outside of his grace, having not accepted his free gift of salvation--she already knows her child's torture, as she sees it here on earth. Earth is a reflection--a dim one, but a reflection nonetheless. While she may feel pain for her child in this world, in this life, she is aware of the manifestations of her child's choice.
How could she be "happy" in heaven when "the child she loves more than anything" is in hell (if, indeed, the child is in hell)?
First, if she chose not to mimic the child's choice of separation from God on earth, she doesn't love the child more than she loves God. If she is in heaven, she loves God most.
In any event, none of what you said disproves the afterlife. All it says is that because you don't understand--your having not accepted God's gift of salvation yet--it seems impossible to you. Things are not what they seem. Consider that your mind does not hold all of the answers to its own questions. If it did, you wouldn't have the questions.
2006-09-02 06:24:39 · answer #8 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no no no....when Jesus returns and destroys Babylon and those who have become a part of it, scripture does NOT say they will suffer eternally. it says, that the SMOKE of their torment ascends forever as a reminder. Davis says in Psalm 37:20 " and the wicked shall PERISH in the smoke...into the smoke they shall VANISH forever"
Eternal suffering is not compatible with God. God doesnt want us to suffer, but if we CHOOSE a hellbound path we shall not suffer forever. No, our souls will perish in the fire and we cease to exist. Annihilation and distance from God is our punishment.
Only Satan and his wicked angels shall feel the torment of hell along after the souls thrown into the lake of fire become ashes.
2006-09-02 06:23:41 · answer #9 · answered by darcys_wifey 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
this is a difficult question to answer because it causes one to delve into the study of theology, and theology can be quite confusing and a very painful experience.
I recall a time several months ago when a Calvinist suggested that God decided who would be saved before he ever made man, and that he made some for salvation and some for condemnation. I think of my brother who is not saved, and to think that God would create him and give him no chance for salvation at all, but created him for hell. Not only angered me but caused me great grief. There could be no justice if God declined to even give him a chance, but, if my brother who I love very much, by his own choosing condemns himself to Hell by his refusal to turn. then God is just and my brother will have only himself to blame. it would hurt greatly to see him condemned to hell, but it is his choice to make. and we must be content in that.
2006-09-02 06:27:41 · answer #10 · answered by setfreejn836 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-06 03:55:39 · answer #11 · answered by guisinger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋