...to make a hell, forced to write a rule that says if we stupid/evil ants don't worship him we must be thrown into the bonfire.
A god of infinite compassion and love couldn't come up with a better rule than that?
I'm supposed to worship a god of such limited imagination, love and compassion?
2006-09-16 12:34:45 · 16 answers · asked by bobkgins_sock_puppet_1 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You simply looking at this from a perception of ignorance of the faith and of history.
The Bible's message is "God doesn't say worship me or else". The Bible's message is good news. The good news that He has provided a way to righteousness, through the death of His Son. Prior to God's sacrifice, humans had to attempt to reach perfection or righteousness by their own doing. Humans had to follow a set of strict laws or else.
God's love fulfilled this law, as Jesus paid for all times we don't meet the law. All we have to do is accept His love and sacrifice. Praising and worshiping God will come when we better understand His love, not before.
2006-09-16 12:45:30 · answer #1 · answered by asafam23 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yep, you are and if you had any sense at all you could see that if you choose to break all the rules, you will pay for it. If you are told that an iron is red hot and you should not touch it or it will burn you very badly, so you go ahead and touch it anyway, how is that being stupid on the part of the one that told you it was hot and not to touch it? God made the rules for us not to be hurt, not just to be making some rules. They were to be for our own good so if we followed them we could be very happy but if we chose not to, we would be very unhappy. Our choice as to which we want, happy or not. Would you rather live in a world where there are no rules and is total chaos? Where anyone can come take whatever it is of yours that they want and you can do nothing about it as you are a wimp that can't stand up for himself? Or that would come take your wife or kids away and rape them and use them till they got tired of them and then throw them aside? God made rules so that kind of things don't happen and if they do, those that do it are punished. Or would you want it the other way?
2006-09-16 12:46:07 · answer #2 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Especially when you consider that God breaks his own rules all the time in his own Bible: "Thou shall not murder" followed shortly thereafter by "Go out and kill everything that moves."
And since when is God so concerned about "free will"? According to some, your ultimate fate is already written and there is nothing that can be done about it. If you were condemned from before your birth, there is nothing you can do to save yourself from it. And let's not forget the extensive violations of various people's "free will" in his own Bible.
Since when is God, who is by definition all powerful, "forced" to do anything? If God wants to forgive us all, then why not simply do it? If he doesn't like certain people, then why did he create them in the first place despite knowing from the start that he wouldn't like who they were or what they would do? If he wants to surround himself with adoring zombies marching in lock step to his glory, then why not just make everyone that way and skip all the suffering and condemnation? Why have a hell at all?
I figure if I am able to ask the question, I should be able to understand an answer. Surely an all-knowing God could explain himself so that even a child could understand. Evidently he can't though, because of the wide degree of opinions and beliefs about him.
2006-09-16 12:46:56 · answer #3 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-01 01:23:50 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay the whole idea of hell is messed up... I mean it's been messed up. In bibles they always put Hell Hell Hell. But in the original writings you find three different words that 'translators' turned into the singular wor... Hell. The hell that people go to is nothing more than the common grave of mankind... hence burried in the dirt. Want proof the dead don't go to hell and suffer... Ecclesiastes 9:5 "The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all." So no eternal suffering and all. Any more bible questions just email me absens_heros@yahoo.com
2006-09-16 12:47:31 · answer #5 · answered by absens_heros 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I asked the same questions myself, but got no satisfactory answer.
I think those rules are religious constructs to lure and threaten people into submission. Eternal afterlife in Heaven or death and suffering in Hell, neither is a good choice if you really think about it.
Perhaps we should not think of "God" in any term as written by ancient people long ago.
2006-09-16 12:47:26 · answer #6 · answered by : ) 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it does not! God was not forced to do anything, He is the supreme being! Yes, he could come up with anything He wanted. You definitely worship the right God, the God of mercy and forgiveness. Keep questioning and keep reminding yourself all the answers (even from ministers and church leaders) are filtered through their own experiences!
2006-09-16 12:40:41 · answer #7 · answered by swarr2001 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It has nothing to do with force or worship. It's not even about a rule. God is the only Source of Life. If we choose to disconnect from him, death is the only possible result.
2006-09-16 12:37:33 · answer #8 · answered by jewel_flower 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
To one who cannot tolerate spending time with God on earth, an eternity in heaven would be hell.
2006-09-16 12:40:16 · answer #9 · answered by Daniel 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everything God did he planed!
One thing he will not do is change!
Just like gravity will not change.
This will mean that many of his creations including his best creation will be destroyed!
So be it!
Those that live in Christ will never die, and will be here on this earth forever!
2006-09-16 14:06:39 · answer #10 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋