Sometimes I have a problem with the idea of him sending people to hell for not measuring up. I don't mean the vile lowlifes of history but 'average Christians.'
2006-09-17 16:52:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I hear we send ourselves to hell, but we are weak and stupid. Wouldn't that be taken into account
2006-09-17 17:03:27 · update #1
He is lovingly angry! LOL! Seriously, God is loving, and love includes reward and reproof.
You are holding the picture backwards. Here, let me turn it over for you:
NONE of us measure up! We are ALL worthy of damnation! We are not sent to hell for not measuring up. Instead, we are saved from hell for believing. He doesn't push people in the fire to burn, He's the fireman that offers the way out of the fire. He doesn't push people in the water to drown, He is the lifeguard that offers the liferaft.
Here's the BEAUTY of it: Even those vile lowlifes are extended the hand of escape. It is completely up to them to decide to grab hold of it. God won't force them to save themselves. They have to WANT to be saved.
God bless!
2006-09-17 17:04:23 · answer #1 · answered by ConcernedMom 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An imaginary God, just like every other religion.
If the Christian God is so powerful, how come Mohammed is kicking Jesus' butt?
Name one thing in all of history that has caused as much pain, suffering, and death as Christianity and Islam?
Name one when time when either religion had real political power and did not use that power to rape, torture and kill every person they could get their hands on?
If these Gods are so good, why do they spend so much time killing people?
How come the people who claim to love God the most also hate every other person the world the most?
If these Gods are so powerful. how come the best trick they can do is to make an image appear on a grilled-cheese sandwich half-eaten by some illiterate ugly white-trash woman?
Name one miracle in the Bible that Penn & Teller could not to better?
2006-09-17 17:10:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
G-d is Holy, Righteous, and Just
He also is Loving, Merciful, and Compassionate.
He does not send people to hell; at Infinite cost He provided a way of Salvation.
And certainly Christians are not sent to Hell. Perhaps you are getting confused between the finally impenitent being confined to Hell AND Christians who will stand before the Judgement Seat of Christ where they will receive according to their works. That judgement is not as to salvation; but as to works done subsequent to salvation ... for we are saved unto good works.
2006-09-17 17:04:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is angry because He is loving. Just like the father of a teenaged daughter who stayed out too late.
But He doesn't 'send' people to Hell. We all choose for ourselves where we wish to spend eternity, and what we will be doing there.
2006-09-17 16:59:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
U send yourself there , u make the choices
if u go out and kill some1 are u gonna accept responsibility or u gonna blame your parents or the government or the person u killed
in the end u would have noone else to blame but yourself, right?
He doesn't send u to hell u do
2006-09-17 16:56:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD is always merciful. He neither sends any one to heaven or to hell. people simply reap what they sow because that is the law of God.'That is why they said "As you sow so you shall reap"
When aperson does only good deeds he gets good in return and when he does bad deeds he suffers. The physical body alone is time bound not the result of actions. so they follow the doer where ever or which ever form he takes.
2006-09-17 17:57:48 · answer #6 · answered by Brahmanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mate, this is only my opinion, the kind of god that we have all depends on our actions that we do here on earth. we all know the typical stuff that our parents and teachers tell us that we have a god that is loving, kind, merciful and just. and all this are true. he is all those things. but u have to remember, that he also gave us FREE WILL. the freedom to choose. and with that freedom, comes the responsibility of our actions. it's not a matter of him sending the average christian people to hell. it's wat that average christian person did that made him be sent to hell.
2006-09-17 17:07:51 · answer #7 · answered by calil 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have any kind of god you want as most gods are a reflection of the people who worship them.
Some societies have a different god for every occasion, others have to manage with just one god.
It's a matter of personal choice as long as you don't harm anyone.
2006-09-17 18:57:22 · answer #8 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see how it makes any rational sense that an "all loving God" would want to entertain the emotion of anger, much less the absolute rage it would take to annihilate thousands upon thousands.
2006-09-17 16:57:40 · answer #9 · answered by buttercup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is love. he does not get angry in the human sense, He is not petulant or petty, He is not arbitrary, rude or haughty His anger is righteous.
He is slow to anger and rich in love. His anger boils over at those who do evil acts against the innocent.
2006-09-17 16:56:13 · answer #10 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋