How can God be all-powerful, infinitely loving, and still let people burn in Hell? Does He just ignore those people? Why doesn't He zap them out of existence? Why does God incorporate reward and punishment when He is all-powerful? Don't you think the balance between Heaven and Hell is pretty simple-minded? Heaven and Hell can be achieved through brain chemicals...doesn't that cheapen the whole mysticism of it?
2006-10-15 06:51:00 · 15 answers · asked by Xo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you are facing a contractiction, check your premises, you will find one is wrong!
Premises should include: all just.
Assumption: heaven and hell are unknowns. They are people's descriptions of the after-life.
Most of our founders hated religion due to the fire and brimstone rhetoric, when the bible and the faith they had led them in an individualistic direction.
You are beating a dead horse.
2006-10-19 07:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by Cogito Sum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not ignore all people, He has given us free will to do what we want. The evil in this world is in our choices to do evil things. Heaven and Hell is not a state of mind -- it is the afterlife. The balance between going to heaven or being cast into Gehenna depends on your faith in God. I am Catholic, and my faith does not guarantee that I can go to heaven, in fact, I always need to work out my salvation. I could go on about scripture and quote excerpts, but it will not help you because you are probably not even interested in that. Also, obviously, I need not preach about the premise of your questions. You may not be interested, but consult a pastor, or read the bible if you really want to know more.
2006-10-15 14:32:15 · answer #2 · answered by Vino 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The biggest contradiction in the Christian religion is that an ALL-loving father would create hell and send me there FOREVER for being exactly who he knew I was going to be BEFORE I was even born.
2006-10-15 13:58:39 · answer #3 · answered by phaig93 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not asking a believer to agree with any of that are you? If the readers themselves don't have a good answer then it is easy to look up somebody elses good answer on the 'net. They have had about two thousand years to wrap the whole thing up in circular arguments and have been argueing with themselves and killing each other over smaller points than this for most ot that time. When not trying to kill each other they are splitting off and forming their own churches
2006-10-15 14:08:09 · answer #4 · answered by eantaelor 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
GOD Creates Things
GOD Created Man and Gave him,her a Free Will.
We get to chose.
Between what GOD has Created.
2006-10-15 13:55:01 · answer #5 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
simple-minded...I will say...hell hasn't started up yet and then it burns "like a stubble field" hot quick and all gone.........this heaven or hell concept came along by man made means to control the population.
2006-10-15 13:56:49 · answer #6 · answered by zee zee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biggest contradiction? That people consider religion worth something positive and it's not.
2006-10-15 14:06:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He doesnt. This was all made up as a control measure, to keep people in line. Well its not working now.
2006-10-15 14:04:00 · answer #8 · answered by Jibba Jabba 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god is existence absolute,knowledge absolute and bliss absolute,he is that on which everything in and out of existence,the knowable and unknowable are projected he lends light to the intellect, to deny(not understand) the existence of god is to deny your own existence which by definition you cant
2006-10-15 13:59:55 · answer #9 · answered by gasp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can question all you want, and try to rationalize your own opinion. God does not send us to hell. We send ourselves there by our acts and deeds, and even thoughts like yours.
2006-10-15 13:55:11 · answer #10 · answered by stullerrl 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋