Hello!! :o) I hope you're OK. Yet another question for those of you who believe that God is 'all-knowing'. WHY would God create men [and women] that He KNEW were going to HELL?! Have a great day!! Craig!! :o)
2006-09-30 11:12:40 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I would appreciate it if more of you would actually respond TO the QUESTION!! This isn't yet another opportunity for YOU to grab your soap-box and preach. I am a Christian. I believe very much in God and Jesus. But I have LOTS of questions. And that's OK with GOD. [As for as I am concerned] Craig!! :o)
2006-09-30 11:31:19 · update #1
Hi Craig. I want to start off by telling you I love your questions and the fact your searching for answers. I don't believe God created us knowing we would go to hell. In the bible it says it is His will that none of us perish but have everlasting life with Him. I think He created us to be in heaven it is our free will that decides where we'll spend eternity. Think about it can you see God in heaven lining up each soul he is going to send to earth saying heaven,heaven, hell, etc. I don't think so . We have a loving God but He also has to be just. Alot of people ask how a loving God could send someone to Hell. The answer is He didn't . The bible says the wages of sin is death.We all deserve hell but He made a way so we don't have to go there.
2006-10-03 08:02:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God created people who had the free choice of living by the truth and going to heaven, or rejecting the truth and going to hell. Each of these people was blessed with free will and the ability to make free moral choices. Each of them makes their own free moral decisions. God does not control them in any way. Certainly God knew how each induividual would choose, since God is outside of time and sees the entire continuum of time in total eternally, rather than in linear fashion as we do. So God has observed and continues to eternally observe the choices we will make, and the choices every individual human will make until the end of time. Still, it is their free choice, not His. Observing someone making a choice is very different from controlling or influencing the choices of others. God in His limitless love and mercy has offered every human the incredible gift of eternal life. If some choose to throw the gift away, why should we blame the giver of the gift for their foolishness and their eternal damnation?
2006-09-30 12:48:00 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those who say that are right: their "god" would never create hell, because he couldn’t. He doesn’t exist. He is a figment of their imagination, a god they have created to suit themselves. It’s called "idolatry," and it’s the oldest sin in the Book. Idolaters will not inherit the kingdom of God. The one true God, however, could and did create hell for those who reject His mercy. They will reap His just wrath. (For the reasonableness of hell, see Psalm 55:15 footnote.)
The existence of hell and the surety of the judgment are not the claims of fallible man. The Bible is the source of the claim, and it is utterly infallible. When someone becomes a Christian, he is admitting that he was in the wrong, and that God is justified in His declarations that we have sinned against Him.
However, let’s surmise for a moment that there is no Judgment Day and no hell. That would mean that the Bible is a huge hoax, in which more than forty authors collaborated (over a period of 3,000 years) to produce a document revealing God’s character as "just." They portrayed Him as a just judge, who warned that He would eventually punish murderers, rapists, liars, thieves, adulterers, etc. Each of those writers (who professed to be godly) therefore bore false witness, transgressing the very commandments they claimed to be true.
It would mean that Jesus Christ was a liar, and that all the claims He made about the reality of judgment were there-fore false. It would also mean that He gave His life in vain, as did multitudes of martyrs who have given their lives for the cause of Christ. Add to that the thought that if there is no ultimate justice, it means that the Creator of all things is unjust—that He sees murder and rape and couldn’t care less, making Him worse than a corrupt human judge who refuses to bring criminals to justice.
Here’s the good news, though, if there is no hell: You won’t know a thing after you die. It will be the end. No heaven, no hell. Just nothing. You won’t even realize that it’s good news.
Here’s the bad news if the Bible is right and that there is eternal justice: You will find yourself standing before the judgment throne of a holy God, who has seen every sin you have ever committed. Think of it. A holy and perfect Creator has seen your thought-life and every secret sin you have ever committed. You have a multitude of sins, and God must by nature carry out justice. Ask Him to remind you of the sins of your youth. Ask Him to bring to remembrance your secret sexual sins, the lies, the gossip, and other idle words. You may have forgotten your past sins, but God hasn’t. Hell will be your just desert (exactly what you deserve), and you will have no one to blame but yourself. This is the claim of the Bible. If you don’t believe it, it is still true. It will still happen.
Yet, there is good news—incredibly good news. We deserve judgment, but God offers us mercy through the cross. He paid our fine so that we could leave the courtroom. He destroyed the power of the grave for all who obey Him. Simply obey the gospel, and live. By doing that you will find out for yourself that the gospel is indeed the "gospel truth." Jesus said that if you obey Him, you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free (see John 8:31,32).
Get on your knees today, confess and forsake your sins. Tell God you are truly sorry, then trust the Savior as you would trust yourself to a parachute. Then you will find yourself in a terrible dilemma. You will know for certain that hell is a reality. When you get up the courage to warn people you care about, they will smile passively, and say, "Could you be wrong in your claims about Judgment Day and the existence of hell?"
2006-09-30 11:17:50 · answer #3 · answered by Baby girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it's like this - We are all spirit children of God. We lived with him in the pre-existence. Remember, 1/3 were cast out. You and I and everyone else here were in the remaining 2/3. So now we are born and get physical bodies. We also have agency to choose right over wrong. God hopes we will make the right choices and not go to hell. It's up to us.
2006-09-30 11:19:34 · answer #4 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once again, God knows the end from the beginning. He is "all-knowing". How does that imply that He will alter or take away the will and right to make our own choices. Choose Him or not. How is it that this continues to be confused? Is it that if we, as humans, had the power of God, we would not be able to allow people to make choices... because we could dictate, we would??? Thank God we are not omnipotent as He is...
2006-09-30 11:18:18 · answer #5 · answered by reformed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well first of all he didn't create Hell for men, he created Hell for satan and the 1/3 of the angels that went against him. Just because he knows who is going to Hell and who isn't doesn't mean that it is his fault. Everyone has free-will to choose Him or not to choose Him, just because he knows who will and who won't doesn't mean he is making the desicion.
2006-09-30 11:17:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God created all men equally, i.e., with the ability to make a choice.
So...
now your faulting God for man's poor choices.
Nobody on this earth is useless. They can always be used as bad examples. And THAT, my friend, can motivate many to choose righteousness.
2006-09-30 11:17:54 · answer #7 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is infinitely loving, infinitely merciful, and infinitely compassionate. We may assume then that He wants to find a way to save everyone. But God is also infinitely powerful. Therefore He will be able to save everyone; that is to say, everyone who wants to be saved. At the very least, God will offer His saving grace to everyone. We still have the free will choice to reject Him.
We still have free will, and He still allows us to reject Him. But no good person would do that.We can choose to submit to His will, He gives us all a chance.
2006-09-30 11:59:09 · answer #8 · answered by K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To teach us to rely on God and to test our faith. God did however give us the answers of how not to go to hell and be saved so it is really up to each one to do that. How did he know anyone was going to hell except for not saving ourselves? god is all knowing and he knew you were going toask this question too and here is the answer he gave to you through me. I know we all have the chance to be saved if we choose to by obeying God and his laws and repenting of sins.
2006-09-30 11:18:27 · answer #9 · answered by yeppers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are confusing God's power with the way he chooses to use it. The Bible clearly shows that he hasn't predestined us. Instead, he has given us free will to make our own decision.
And the Bible shows that Hell is just the common grave of mankind and not a place where God torments people eternally. E-mail me if you want to know more.
For more information:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2005/1/15/article_02.htm
2006-09-30 11:31:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋