So this convenient god who threatens hellfire is always willing to forgive you when you ask for it?...more?

Question

Does this god got any teeth we should fear? Any reason we should obey him if he's so willing to forgive us whenever we ignore scripture? We can call anyone and everyone "fool" and never get the hellfire because we always apologize to god (lord knows none of the christians who called me fool have bothered to apologize to me)?

What a convenient god the christians worship.

"...but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire."
Matthew 5:22

Answer 1

Christianity is a religion of the heart. God demands His followers have faith in Him and have a heart of submission. God is omiscient and therefore He knows each individuals heart. The apostle Paul addresses this exact question when he states, "Shall we sin more that grace may abound. May it never be."

God is faithful to forgive His faithful even before they ask forgiveness because He knows the heart. Forgiveness of sin does not come cheap. It required the death of God's Son. All Christians sin daily and fall short of perfection but the true Christian who benefits from the Grace of God is the Christian whom God knows has given his heart over to God and is daily doing battle with the evil one. That is who God forgives.

Answer 2

Convenience. Wow. Never a word I would use to describe my relationship with Christ. Its more like a struggle for me to decide if I'm going to drive the bus or let Him. Of course, everytime I drive the bus, I go in the ditch. When He drives, good things happen. Funny thing is, I still want to drive.

He's got arms to love us, man. He doesn't want to send us to hell and He's not sitting up in heaven with His finger on the 'smite' button. God isn't like us. He is to us like we are to ants. Forgiveness is what He wants to give us, because He loves us. At the very least, it means that I have a Father that cares, unlike my real father, who apparently could care less.

Adam, if you really believe that, get someone to put a bag of marshmallows in your coffin. You may find a use for them. Or, you can carefully read the Bible yourself and not listen to someone who has taken scripture out of context and fed YOU a lie.

Answer 3

Bobjkins- I noticed you asked eleven questions with relation to why anyone would believe in God. Is there a possibility you're looking for an answer that may sway your beliefs? If not, why all the questions, just accept you faith or lack thereof and move on? Just curious

Answer 4

think along the lines of "major guilt trip". when you disobey, there's a little voice (commonly referred to as your consience, except it's tougher, stronger) that says "you did wrong. not only did you wrong (insert name), you have wronged God. Apologize. beg for forgiveness. then you should go and ask for (insert name)'s forgiveness.
what kind of a dork of a christian have YOU been watching? this person is known as a hypocrite. this person has ignored the voice. "ok, God, i apologize." "what about apologizing to (insert name)?" "oh forget it, i already apologized to God, who cares about (insert name)." and there you have it. a deadened Christian, worse than not being Christian at all..

Answer 5

Yep, that's how it works. Jeffery Dhamer can murder and eat his victims and as long as he "accepts the lord jesus christ as his savior" he will spend eternity in paradise.

I, on the other hand, who do not believe in or worship a god, will burn in hell for eternity even though this god "loves me."

God must have one hell of an ego!

Answer 6

ROFLMAO
God is a God of the Law! You break the least of the law and you will enter hell!

Christ if you accept him will remove your sins from you, if you do not accept him you own your sins, and will enter hell!

But God is a God of the law and will NOT change!

Now apologize, Why?

Answer 7

I'M A CHRISTIAN AND U HAVE TO ACCEPT JESUS TO GET THE FORGIVENESS PART. I DON'T ASK GOD FOR FORGIVENESS WHEN I SIN. I MEAN MAYBE THAT'S JUST ME. I ASK JESUS BECAUSE THE SINS WERE ON HIS BACK. SO WHEN I SIN IT'S ON HIS BACK.I LOVE JESUS HE'S MY FRIEND SO I TELL HIM I'M SORRY FOR HURTING HIM.

MY GOD'S NOT CONVENIENT. IF HE WERE CONVENIENT THEN HE WOULDN'T GO AGAINST SOME OF THE THINGS MY FLESH WANTS. AND HE DOES. HOWEVER I AM LEARNING TO OVERCOME MY FLESH I MEAN MY FLESH IS ONLY SOME 60 ODD YEARS BUT MY SOUL IS FOREVER SO I GOTTA GET MY MIND ON THAT.

Answer 8

To receive forgiveness from the creator of all that is all before.You must live in that forgiveness to be forgiven or your never forgiven

Answer 9

First off, there is no hellfire, sorry, but you were lied too.

When you die, you die, i.e., Jesus Christ died and went to Hell for 3 days and was resurrected, however he was DEAD and knew nothing, he was not burning in eternal fires. Christ Jesus also promised his followers a resurrection, and this is ALSO WHERE everyone who DIED BEFORE CHRIST is resting, waiting for their resurrections. Read below: For one thing, the scriptures speak of 4 hells, plus the “Lake of Fire” in Rev. 20:14.

#1. Hades
#2. Gehenna
#3. Sheol
#4. Tartarus
#5. The Lake of Fire

#1 HADES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades

The unseen world, translated hell in A.V., Matt. 11:23; 16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23; Acts 2:27,31; Rev. 1:18; 6:8; 20:13,14. See Hell. Eventually, came to designate the abode of the dead.

#2 GEHENNA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna

Gehenna' is a word tracing to Greek, ultimately from Hebrew: גי(א)-הינום Gêhinnôm (also Gei ben-Hinnom (Hebrew: גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom. The valley, which forms the southern border of ancient Jerusalem, is first mentioned in Joshua 15:8. Originally it referred to a garbage dump in a deep narrow valley right outside the walls of Jerusalem (in modern-day Israel) where fires were kept burning to consume the refuse and keep down the stench. It is also the location where bodies of executed criminals, or individuals denied a proper burial, would be dumped. Today, "Gehenna" is often used as a synonym for Hell.

#3. SHEOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol

Sheol (שאול) is the Hebrew language word denoting the "abode of the dead"; the "underworld", "the common grave of mankind" or "pit". It is also transliterated Sheh-ole, in Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries and Strong's Concordances. In the Hebrew Bible it is portrayed as a comfortless place beneath the earth, beyond gates, where both the bad and the good, slave and king, pious and wicked must go after death to sleep in silence and oblivion in the dust. In some sources, for example in Deuteronomy 32:22, Sheol seems to be synonymous with the "depths of the earth". Sheol is sometimes compared to the gloomy, twilight afterlife of Hades or Tartarus from Greek mythology. Sheol is the common destination of both the righteous and the unrighteous dead; the righteous Job sees it as his destination (Job 3). In the Book of Job, while Satan is portrayed as tormenting and testing the living, he does not appear to have any particular presidency over Sheol, or to dwell in Sheol.

#4 TARTARUS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus

Christianity's Tartarus: In the Bible, 2 Peter 2:4, Tartarus is designated as a section of Hades that the fallen angels who had produced the Nephilim of Genesis 6 were cast into to await judgment by God. It does not figure promeninently into the doctrines of Christianity; many translations of the Bible insert Hell in the place of Tartarus. No other specific use of the word Tartarus is in the Bible, however, Jude 6 describes the abode of the same fallen angels mentioned in 2 Peter as 'total darkness'.

#5 THE LAKE OF FIRE (which means the 2nd death, the lake of fire)

See (The Book of Revelation 20:14) and also Acts Ch. 5, the story of Ananias & Sapphira sinning against the Holy Spirit.

Here we see in The Book of Revelation Ch. 20:14 where "Death & Hades" or both DEATH AND HELL are thrown into the Lake of Fire, THE 2ND DEATH, to be destroyed eternally it says HERE! So, we see that the Lake of Fire is Symbolic for ETERNAL DESTRUCTION. Much the same way Gehenna was for the destruction it caused! Nothing that goes in comes out. Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 are both eternally destroyed for sinning against the "holy ghost/spirit" for lying to it. So, much like before they were born, they are now, neither knowing anything nor suffering.

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There IS NO ETERNAL BURNING HELL. This is YET ANOTHER (OF MANY, MANY) apostasies brought INTO THE EARLY Christian church from pagan origins. As many have wondered, God is NOT so unkind to make someone suffer eternally for "simply" not accepting him or his son's sacrifice. Sooner or later anyone's sins would have been paid in that kind of hell according to a "righteous" God.

Answer 10

I find most Christians I know are "Preforgiven". At least they act that way...