Just curious. Whats the consensus here? Will I burn in eternal torment for these words? Any entity that has any part in an eternal torment of me, let me say in advance, "you suck you pathetic prick, who cruel are you?".
Dont tell me, "its complicated" or "i know its hard to fathom, but God knows, and we dont, we willl learn in his time". Ok, now look up circular reasoning.
2006-10-02 10:43:13 · 20 answers · asked by WWND 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My score on the Intelligence Quotient Test is high. I also know many Christians who are more intelligent than I am in many areas, but I have not asked them their IQ score, thinking it to be what it is: an item of trivia that shows me how an independent body measured their aptitude with regard to such things as deductive reasoning, pattern recognition and prediction, mathematics, logic, and analytical capabilties prompted by language descriptions and symbolic representations of quantities inside space...and whatnot.
My score on the Intelligence Quotient Test neither enabled me to seek nor prevented me from seeking God.
I believe in Hell. For the record.
2006-10-02 10:54:12 · answer #1 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
before everything, each and every thing in existence replaced into no longer created by using people: the universe is one ingredient. Secondly, there are a number of variations of God and there are better than one holy e book. Now that we are sparkling on those factors, confident, i've got faith that each and every thing IS GOD (Pantheism) and the Bible is a gaggle of hogwash, that "godist" religions, for the main area, recommend nicely yet somewhat have not had numerous a effective impression on the human race, that there is not any such place as heaven or hell - those are states of being, no longer somewhat "places", and evil for sure does it exist, so there is not any longer something to disbelieve there.
2016-10-18 09:14:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My IQ is around 130. Not sure if that's high, but it's higher than 50, anyway.
Intelligence and religious belief are not related. You can argue against our beliefs till you're blue in the face. It's not doing anyone any good, is it? There are intelligent people all over the place. It seems you're just closed-minded, and don't want to believe that we have reasons for believing what we believe. You don't have to be stupid to believe in God. You just have to open-minded about spiritual things.
And no, I won't look up circular reasoning, becuase I don't care what you call people's ways of reasoning. When they give you those answers, those answers are honestly what they believe. You can call it what you want. but it's faith - meaning belief without seeing.
2006-10-02 10:49:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why so angry? It`s a good question that i don`t think has really a good answer....but read the case for christianity..it is a book by C.S. Lewis. He logically and academically argues why God/heaven must exist and therefore why Hell must also exist. Everyone will get the chance to repent...the question is will you still be full of anger and hatred that you will reject the offer and therefore suffer the consequences.
2006-10-02 10:51:20 · answer #4 · answered by Therapist King 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
IQ actually doesn't really mean much. It's an arbitrary figure. It's what you do with your intelligence that is important. And then some people with hi IQ's have absolutely no common sense! You know the old saying,"He's too smart for his own good!"
2006-10-02 10:52:43 · answer #5 · answered by SeraMcKay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not one word in the Bible suggests that hell is a pleasant place, or a place where anyone would ever want to go. Jesus called hell a place of "outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 25:30, KJV). In one of His parables, Jesus told of a man who was in hell, begging for someone to come and "cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire" (Luke 16:24). The only companions anyone will have in hell will be "the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25:41).
There is much we don't know about hell—but we know all we need to know. And the most important thing we know about hell is that we don't have to go there! Yes, we have sinned, and we deserve only God's judgment. But God loves us, and Christ came to deliver us from hell and welcome us into heaven forever.
Don't take hell lightly—but don't take Christ lightly, either. Instead, by a simple prayer of faith ask Him to forgive your sins and come into your life today. The Bible's promise is true: "There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1).
2006-10-02 10:45:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Read Luke 16:19-31
Romans 10
2006-10-02 10:46:41 · answer #7 · answered by robert p 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
People often have a difficult time reconciling the concept of a God of Love who later condemns those who choose not to follow His plan by havng them burn in Hell forever. The truth is that such a God would not be loving. Sometimes popular religious misunderstandings can mislead many. Let us turn to God's holy book, the bible, and learn how it uses the term 'for ever'. In 1 Samuel 1:22 it states "But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, i will not go up until the child be weaned, and then i will bring him that he may appear before the Lored, and there abide for ever." Did She Mean For Eternity? NO,. A couple of verses later we are told what Hannah meant. ":For this child i prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which i asked of hi: Therefore also i have lent to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord" So, "forever" in verse 22 means 'as long as he liveth'
We don't have trouble understanding this. We use the term 'forever' the same way ourselves in common speech. We tell our husband or wife, "I will love you forever." And our husband or wife knows that what we mean is , "i will love you as long as i live" --not "i will love you eternally, for time without end."
Let's look at another example from the bible. In giving regulations about servants who did nnot want to go free when their time of servitude was completed, Moses said, "Then his master shall bring him unto the judges ; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever"
( Exodus 21:6). We can be sure that this ervant is not still serving his master today. In this case, "forever' obviously could not mean for eternity . Clearly it means "for as long as the servant lives."
So when the bible speaks about the lost being burned "forever and ever' in the fires of Hell, we have to place those verses alongside the many clear statements in the bible that the wicked are burned up, consumed and destroyed totally and completely. It's clear that "forever" dosn't always mean "eternally".
Remember, that there is a God in heaven, who loves you so much that he gave His only son, Jesus to pay the debt for your sin. Whether we are burnt up in the fires of Hell depends upon how we choose to live our lives, for God gave each of us the gift of freewill. Choose today to follow the lord & keep His commandments. May God Bless you & lead you to a body of believers that love God & keep ALL of HIs commandments.
2006-10-02 11:30:18 · answer #8 · answered by garlicfresh 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is clearly possible. I have seen the hell concept asserted many times on Y!A and it takes an IQ above 50 to answer in the largely coherent fashion of many of these answerers. So, those individuals show it is possible.
2006-10-02 10:47:07 · answer #9 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
is it possible to believe in jesus with an I Q of 50 or below or above? YES IT IS! and if it is then you could have any I Q and still believe in hell.
2006-10-02 10:50:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋