2006-10-01 03:57:31 · 15 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If either place existed, sure. I'd do anything for my kids.
2006-10-01 03:58:32 · answer #1 · answered by . 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Heaven and Hell are imaginary places invented to control the peasants. Heaven is the promised reward if you do what the men in power want you to do, and Hell is the scare tactic threat. That people would take these concepts literally here in the 20th century just makes me sad for humanity.
2006-10-01 11:01:17 · answer #2 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having a handicapped son he has already been to hell and Heaven is where he is going.I would give up all eternity for him to go there.
2006-10-01 11:03:03 · answer #3 · answered by mom52 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't work like that. You can't buy your way or someone else's way out of their destiny. This is self evident, otherwise all Protesants are wrong and Luther was wrong, for he was outraged that the Catholic church was allowiing people to buy their way out of sins. Luther said you cannot buy your way out of sins. If Calvin is correct, that it was all predesinted upon birth. Some will go (to heaven) and some will not. Hence the Methodists would be wrong. If you cannot buy YOUR OWN way out of sins, you can't buy someone else's way out of their sins. No Government lets you take your child's place in prison because they walked into a school and shot everyone up.
All you can do is give up heaven to live with them in hell.
With the Bible as a template, we must first ask if God can do all then God had the power to "cure" Adam and Eve of their ills. God could have taken back the knowledge of Good and Evil and set them free with a wave of his mighty hand! For whatever reason, God didn't do that. Instead God set them on their own in the world to wrestle with Good and Evil, right and wrong.
God sent his only begotten (of human) son to bring salvation and everlasting life to those who believe. But the Bible doesn't firmly say where this ever lasting life will occur, for in the Bible it says.
There is a book of life and those (including JEws, the chosen people and Christians, the believers in Jesus--unclear and not difinative) whose names are not in the book go back to the scorched Earth and lake of fire.
The possiblity exists that even Christians and Jews may not find their name in the book of life, for everyone with the MArk of the Beast shall not be in that book.
That's why Christians are trying to figure out what that means, for if they make a mistake, they can lose their place in heaven.
No where in the Revelations does it indicate that anyone not in the book, can get back into the book by doing something. Therefore we must conclude God's word is final, and as with Adam and Eve God will not wave a magic wand to create an exception.
God wants to see who does right and who doesn't.
You're wife don't do right, your kids don't do right, you mother don't do right then they may not be in the book, but you might. Your only option is to pass on the ticket into heaven.
Final word from Jesus: You MUST put GOD above your mother and father, your son and daughter.
Christians may have eternal life, but there is no warranty it will be in heaven.
There is no reward for self-sacrifice. All passing on the trip to heaven says to God, is that he was right to put your name in that book to begin with!
You don't question God and God doesn't question you. Your ways, your words and your actions are self evident.
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Shall we do this again as a real world example.
The button gets pushed and the A-bombs are launched and explode and food and people become contaiminated.
You seek shelter. You find shelter. Maybe a US bunker, that is lead lined, underground. Dr. Strangelove, if you will.
Upon entry and examination the doctors say YOU are fine and can go inside, but your children have too much exposure and are sick from radiation and dying and will be dead in 60 days and are so seriously contaiminated that they can make others sick, therefore they cannot go inside.
You agreeing to go back out will NOT buy their way inside, because they are contaminated and sick.
Your only options are to say goodbye, which you would have to do in 60 days anyway, and go inside or go back out with them, watch them die, maybe die yourself or survive through all with the memories of watching them die from radiation sickness.
This scenario has strong possiblities. Go ask the survivors of Hiroshima if what I say is true or not.
God does not wave a magic wand!
There IS NO get out of jail free card.
You cannot escape your desity and your desinty is what you make it.
2006-10-01 11:13:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a hard one.
I`m not a great believer,
but my sub-conscience
always wanted to believe
in heaven,
so my conscience denied hell.
so as we speak hypothetically,
I certainly would,
not just for my kids, but for my sister`s too.
maybe even for yours.
2006-10-01 11:13:57 · answer #5 · answered by sandolina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in hell! but to answer your question yes I would.
2006-10-01 11:29:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I would. My children are everything to me, and I am nothing without them!
2006-10-01 11:07:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I go to hell I'm gonna take them with me, In fact I'm sharpening the axe right now
2006-10-01 11:00:35 · answer #8 · answered by Apeman 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I told you 2 change the avatar.
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2006-10-01 11:04:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus already went to hell and suffered so neither you nor your kids will ever have to .
2006-10-01 11:03:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋