If it's true that there are only two possibilities, that also means that there is some singular point on the good-bad continuum out there... in which on one side you go to hell & eternal suffering and the other side you go to heaven & eternal glory.
One point, infinitely small so you can't land on top of it.
That would mean that just ONE tiny good act or ONE insignficant bad act could mean the difference between heaven or hell, if you were on the edge.
Imagine going to heaven & St. Peter says "oooh.... you just missed the cut. If only you didn't think about looking down Patty Jones' shirt in the 5th grade, you would have made it. Sorry, but you roast in hell for eternity. It all came down to that."
That doesn't sound fair, just, or even realistic to me.
2006-09-28 10:19:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The fact that there is no hell means that the degrees don't matter. I like the Patty Jones story, the bible does say that just thinking about committing a sin is the same as actually committing it. Now that really sucks in my opinion.
2006-09-28 10:27:05 · answer #1 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, there would have to be a whole spectrum with heaven one end and hell the other and we take our own place somewhere on that spectrum...just as we do with our sexuality and intelligence and height etc when alive. But I really don't think there is anything beyond this life for any of us so why fret over the details?
2006-09-28 17:26:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fairness means giving a person what is rightfully theirs. Since there is nothing that is rightfully ours, and everything we have, including salvation, is a free gift from God, the issue of "fairness" doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on how God relates to us. If I walk down an alley and hand some poor homeless man living there five dollars, and then hand another homeless man ten dollars, was I "unfair" to the first man?? Of course not! Because I didn't owe anything to either of them. It was a free gift. And God doesn't owe anything to us.
2006-09-28 17:40:29 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 Corinthians 12: 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
There are different kingdoms of glory: Celestial (Highest), Terrestrial, Telestial
For more details: www.lds.org (scriptures - Doctrine and Covenants - Sec. 76 - verses 50 to end of ch.)
2006-09-28 19:35:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And who says that is even close? For all we know the men sitting around in the committee could have said.. "How do we keep the masses in line?" "Oh I know.. Heaven and Hell great concept.. fear of not being in grace will do it".
I think I'll just concentrate on reality.
2006-09-28 17:45:25 · answer #5 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no on the edge. You are either choose Christ and his kingdom or choose the devil and his. God will honor your freedom to choose.
Hell was created to punish the devil for eternity. He is mad because he knows he will go there one day.
The only way to get even with God as best as he can is to go after his children. (us)
God is just in all his ways. It is hard for our feeble minds to comprehend. Satan will push whatever question it takes into our hearts to get us to doubt the Word of God that does not change!
2006-09-28 17:25:51 · answer #6 · answered by digdugs 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not fair, it's not just, and it's certainly not realistic.
Heaven or hell are not based on behavior. It's more like choosing Life or choosing Death, and you can't really be just a little bit alive or partially dead.
Life and Death don't have degrees - you either are or you aren't.
2006-09-28 17:33:48 · answer #7 · answered by jewel_flower 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For real. That's why I choose to believe in karma and future/past lives. The whole duality thing makes more sense that way.
2006-09-28 17:22:29 · answer #8 · answered by Ana 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No doubt...I couldn't imagine basing my life around this fear of whats going to happen to me after I die
2006-09-28 17:25:07 · answer #9 · answered by nicole 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is just. You're either saved, or you're not. Your actions aren't what you'll be judged by; it's whether you have faith that Jesus died for your sins. Your actions are just a symptom of your faith, not the diagnosis.
2006-09-28 17:24:04 · answer #10 · answered by p2of9 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋