I mean, he is all-powerful and ultimately he is the only one who decides whether or not you go to hell, so really, if God is kind and all loving, there is no excuse for him to send people to burn for eternity?!?!
2006-09-24 17:57:34 · 32 answers · asked by Acerus 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Okay okay okay...
According to most of you, it's not God's responsibility.
Two More questions.
1) Why did God make hell then?
2) Why, according to most Christians, do Buddhists, who are probably the nicest poeple on the whole damn planet, go to hell???
God is not very fair...
2006-09-24 18:12:15 · update #1
I agree with you completely. That's why I don't believe in hell. I think people made up the idea of hell to control other people.
I also wonder if maybe He isn't completely all powerful. If he can't stop hurricanes, for example, that would explain why God allows human suffering. Maybe He can't help it.
2006-09-24 18:01:18 · answer #1 · answered by mollyneville 5 · 2⤊ 6⤋
Yes, God is a good and loving God but he is also a just God. He is a God of Justice who will not allow sin to go unpunished. All the times on earth that we see little children starving because of corrupt governments etc will be avenged. The scales will be balanced. Justice will be served.
I guess its easier with an analogy of a Judge in a Court. Just say someone was brutally murdered and the Judge let them off because he thought he would go easy on them. He felt kind of soft and loving and easy going that day This would be outrageous to everyone involved especially the family of the victim etc and he would no longer be viewed as a good judge. It would be an injustice. The murderer should have gone to jail. Gods jail is called Hell.
In the same way God has given us his laws (the 10 Commandments) and because he loves us so much and knows we are not perfect and cannot keep them perfectly our whole life he offerred His Son Jesus to take the punishment for our sins if we accept his offer of forgiveness.
2006-09-24 18:25:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Think of god as if he making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You might be part of the peanut butter, the jelly, or the bread. Now if he should put too much jelly on such that when finished and put togethor some of the jelly spills out onto the countertop he isn't going to think twice about mopping it up. Likewise, if in assembling it, the bread jumps to one side and doesn't line up like a sandwich should he'll be cross.
What does all that mean?
You are as insignifigant as the tiniest portion of that sandwich to God. Does he care that it might make a mess - sure. Would he prefer the bread not to jump and be problematic - sure. He'd like it to be a good little sandwich. But in the end, did it really matter? He still got lunch.
2006-09-24 18:08:41 · answer #3 · answered by special-chemical-x 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't deside whether you go to Heaven or Hell. You do.
We are all born sinners because of Adam and Eve's disobedience to God. This sinful nature, that we all have, causes us to be separated from God.
There is nothing that we can do to fix this.
That is why Jesus came to the earth. He had no sin. Therefore He qualified to be the ultimate sacrifice that was needed to take away our sin.
Acceptance of Jesus as our Lord and Savior, belief that Jesus is God's Son, that he came to the earth, died, was burried, and rose from the dead. Is what God requires for salvation.
Hell was prepaired by God for Satan and his angels and those who do not choose Jesus and therefore do not want to go to Heaven. God doesn't wan't anyone to choose Hell.
2006-09-24 18:14:04 · answer #4 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ok, let's just say you were to rob a bank and you were caught and sent to prison. Although it was the judicial system who actually sent you to prison, you were ultimately responsible for making a bad decision and had to suffer the consequences. God is just.
-There is no excuse for you to reject His free gift of salvation He offers everyone. Seize the opportunity while there is still time.
2006-09-24 18:08:56 · answer #5 · answered by resilience 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but through Him the world might be saved. John 3:16, 17. We chose if we go to hell or not because God gave us a way out.
2006-09-24 18:05:29 · answer #6 · answered by snowwwplowerrr 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
People decide themselves to go to hell by breaking laws. If God were to let those people into heaven, it would not remain heaven for long would it??? It truly is the person themselves who makes the choice to live that way, as God gives us free will, we are free to choose hell.
Those who are not fully honest with themselves blame others ( including God ) of the things that are their own fault. Full self evaluation of your conscious would prevent the delusion that others are to blame for what you have brought onto yourself.
2006-09-24 18:04:06 · answer #7 · answered by inzaratha 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The ideology of hell is simply a scare tactic to get butts in the pews, money in the offering plate and complete submission from people. Religion is the ultimate multi level marketing scam and it is the only one where the consumers blame themselves for product failure.
2006-09-24 18:08:58 · answer #8 · answered by Medusa 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What would you say about a judge who lets off a criminal just because the criminal was a 'good person' ? God is ALSO a judge. Unrepentant sinners have to be and will be punished. That is why God gives them their whole lives to turn to Him. Once you die, it is too late to ask for forgiveness and accept Jesus as your personal savior. Get it right while you still have a chance. Jesus loves you!
2006-09-24 18:02:07 · answer #9 · answered by Monique 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
God doesn't send people to hell... people choose to go there themselves by rejecting God... if someone doesn't believe in God how can a God that they don't believe in stop them???
God doesn't want anyone to go to hell but he has given us free will to choose where we go... if he didn't we would all just be robots
2006-09-24 18:01:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
People keep asking this question. I don't claim to fully understand the mind of God (only God can do that), but here is one way to look at it, I think.
For starters, how do we know that God is loving? Because the Bible says so? The same Bible also says that God sends people to Hell. So, God's concept of love must be somewhat different that ours. Otherwise, how can you decide what parts of the Bible to believe, and what parts not to believe? How do we know that all that stuff about Heaven is not all made up?
Try to look at it from God's point of view. Why should God allow someone to continue feel pleasure if that person hates God and wants God to leave him alone? God created pleasure, so for God to allow you to continue to feel good means that God is somehow still interfering with your life, even though you told him that you wanted nothing to do with him anymore. If you were God, and had created a person who came to hate you and was ungrateful for everything that you did, wouldn't life with that person be unbearable? Wouldn't you eventually have to push that person out of your life forever?
If someone didn't like God and his rules, or want to be with him, then wouldn't an eternity of being stuck in Heaven with a god that you hate be just another form of hell? It seems that a person who does not like his creator will eventually be unhappy anywhere God puts him.
Thirdly, why should someone who may have committed grave injustice against other people be allowed to simply disappear into nothingness? How would it serve justice if someone like Hitler was allowed to simply disappear instead of paying God back for all of the suffering that he caused? Of course, none of us thinks that we are all that bad, or that we have ever hurt any one else, but I wonder if other people would agree?
Additionally, do you believe that God with give you eternal happiness in Heaven based on just a few good deeds done over just one lifetime? I noticed that no-one ever complains that the concept of eternal Heaven is unfair.
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Hell is God reluctantly granting non-Christians their wish.
Ultimately, life and every desirable thing comes from the God who created every molecule that we see, feel, enjoy and misuse. Even sin’s fickle pleasure, that elusive shadow of the real thing seized while defying him, is possible only because the Son of God lovingly created his haters with the ability to experience pleasure.
Non-Christians push Jesus aside, yet in his extravagant love Jesus keeps giving and giving. They don’t want him meddling in their lives, but he keeps forcing himself upon them, showering them with gifts of life and pleasure. In hell they finally get their way. To be granted separation from the Source of every good and beautiful thing, however, is a terrifying prospect.
A different view: In the western world the concept of a God of love pops up so often that we forget the source of this notion. The only way of truly knowing that God is love is through the revelation of Jesus and the Bible, both of which lovingly and emphatically warn of hell’s grim reality.
2006-09-24 18:49:14 · answer #11 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋