How do you reconcile the idea of an a merciful, loving, forgiving God with the idea of Hell?

Question

Trick question! You can't! No merciful, loving, forgiving parent would allow one of his children to suffer forever, no matter how bad. The Christian God is an abuser and a criminal. He is inferior to the lowest and meanest human being on Earth.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You are right, No merciful God, would allow any of his Children to suffer torment forever, And the true God does not, have, that type of sadistic thought or idea in his heart!!! But then that idea is not God's in the first place, it isn't even in the Bible, BUT there is one sadistic person who is confusing people into believing that lie of a hell of torment forever and many other lies, he is promoting that idea and many more to,blacken God and to get people away from the truth, he therefore is teaching lies , and poses as god and has made himself the god of this system of things(2Corinthians4:4),He is Satan the devil that was his intention in the beginning when he deceived Eve into thinking bad against the true God, to take the worship that rightly belongs to the true God for himself. And his sceems he is still sceeming against God, but his time now is very short, and therefore he is working much harder now to try and prove his argument, And again Yes you are rightSatan is inferior to the lowest and meanest human on earth, He is the most dangerous enemy of Mankind, as well as the cause of all the suffering on this planet. There is no wonder then that this world is in such a mess, and sad state,but it is because people fall into satan's trap and instead of listening to the true God they listen to the false god,he is the cunning saddistic person who is interested only in himself and his mission of trying to undermine the true God. and take away the free gift that our loving God of ther Bible wants us to have, If you look at the state of the earth what do you see? Is it not a huge amount of Chaos and unorganization amongst people on our planet, and all the things that people have been asking on here the religious differences the fighting of wars and the things going on earth wide today, that is not what God wanted for us,
but God's purpose to cleanse this world and planet has not been thwarted, only an adjustment has been caused to be necessary, His purpose of a world of a beautiful parklike paradise on earth with people living in harmony and peace in it, forever in happines, has not changed, and he will bring it into action very soon now, fulfilling his promise in Revelation21:4 into effect and wiping away every tear from peoples eyes and doing away with death forever as well as sickness and sorrow will be no more. Now that is a Loving God wouldn't you agree?

Answer 3

individually, i detect the assumption of a 'loving god' perplexing to reconcile with an overwhelmingly antagonistic universe. The 'liveable earth' quantities to basically a million in 10^-sixty 5 of the universe; it quite is a a million divided via 10 accompanied via sixty 5 zeros; an excellent determination so small that we haven't any call for it. an extremely staggeringly tiny huge type. And in that liveable earth, basically some hundred of the billions of species created are in any respect secure for us, something being reason on killling us in numerous interesting procedures. And as any scientist enable you understand, even for the 'actuality' we see, an astonishing super share of that may no longer something better than empty area. If a god did create all this and us, out of love, he left us with basically the main infinitesimal share of powerful stuff, something being antagonistic previous all mind's eye. Please do tell me that there is a 'he' and that he *does* love; because of fact all *I* see is a void wherein we are specks properly below the point of thought.

Answer 4

Have you read the Word of God and been given the free gift of understanding and wisdom? Don't think so, as your question is full of falsehoods and lies.

The idea of Hell you say.
Hell is a place that is made for Satan and his angels. If a person in this life chooses not to accept Jesus Christ as God's Saviour then it is also a place for them to go as well. They make the choice themselves. God has nothing to do with your choice.

At the final judgment there exist a place called the Lake of Fire.
This is a place that God has set aside to destroy all that offends and is evil. It is Satan's judgment place of destruction.

When he enters the lake followed by his angels and all that refused to accept the Lord it will be like fat dripping into the fire. The fat will hit the fire and instantly turn to smoke and that entity will no longer exist. Not in the minds of anyone. They are as if they never were created.

There is no continued suffering into eternity. Its in and they are gone.

Please spend time reading the Word each day. A little bit goes a long way.><>

Answer 5

Miss Ann, You have uncovered a pagan belief that his infiltrated into many Christian denominations of today, but not all of them. You are correct it would be illogical and counter to the teachings of the Bible to have people being tortured for all eternity in a continually burning Hell fire. In fact the Bible clearly states that the people in hell are burned up and die. John 3:16. Since they never live again the death is eternal, but the fire goes out and shown in the New Testament book of Jude. If you want more details go to amazingfacts.org.

If a supposed Christian belief is not logical it must be wrong. If you are searching for truth you can use logic to find it. Truth is logical even to humans.

Answer 6

So all fair and just judges in courts are cruel and miserable people? Look at it this way: YOu kill someone. The evidence is overwhelming that you did it and the jury convicts you beyond the shadow of a doubt....if the judge didn't convict and sentence you, he would be a really crappy judge, right? Well, God's Law is perfect and holy, just as He is. We have ALL broken His law, and all must suffer the legal ramifications. God sent Jesus to die to pay the penalty of us breaking the Law. It's the equivalent of someone stepping into the courtroom we discussed earlier and as you were being taken to jail, stopping you and telling the judge that he would go to jail for you and pay ALL your fines. God paid a debt for you that HE didn't owe.

Next time you say something is "unfair"...think about the fairness God has shown all mankind...

Answer 7

And that lowest meanest human on earth is....? who? you? God is just? whats your excuse for being so critical....and He gives us a choice to go to hell or not....I think that is each persons decision....God doesn't send us to hell we do that all on our own with the choices we make...He didn't put his hand over Adam and Eve's mouth when they brought sin into the world through their disobedience...when they ate from the forbidden fruit..He gave the command...they disobeyed it by their own choice....I think you are missing the whole point of the Bible....It is not about us...It's about God and His Glory...and God is not a crimnal He is our creator! But He is also Just...Sin was never supposed to be a part of the deal...But with one man sin entered into the world )Adam) and with one man Sin was taken out of the world (Christ)....but that last part is your choice? God will make all the steps that separate us from Him...except the last one...that one we have to make on our own...I think you are hurting from something personal that happened to you that makes you believe that and right now I ask God to bring peace and healing to your heart...I lost my oldest son in a terrible car accident and for months I blamed God for that too...But after I read Isaiah 57 : 1 that made a drastic difference in how I viewed our Gracious Heavenly Father...

Answer 8

God is not just a merciful, loving, and forgiving God, but He is also a jealous, wrathful, and even an angry God. How can a person with sin get into Heaven????? Sin and God cannot coexist together in the same room. Sin cannot be in the presence of God and God cannot be in the presence of sin. SO how could God let someone who rejected HIM, His will, His plan for there life, allow that person into Heaven?

Hell was NOT INTENDED FOR MANKIND. Since mankind was sinning and dying with their sins, they would end up in Hell. God didn't send them their, the choices they made on Earth determined their final resting place.

Hell was intended for Satan and his demons, evil spirits as well. Earth is apart of Hell, since Hell is in the center of the Earth. Satan is the prince of this world, this is his kingdom. MANKIND IS NOT WELCOMED HERE THAT IS WHY SATAN HATES US SO MUCH. SATAN WANTS EARTH FOR HIMSELF AND HIMSELF ONLY.

Answer 9

I think you have it wrong. God has given us free will and it is our choice not his ,on whether we go to Hell.Besides the Bible says the wages for sin is death not suffering. Hell was meant to mean the grave and even Jesus spent 3 days in hell or otherwise the grave before he rose from the grave. God was showing us another choice. He was the first member of the Pro-Life movement.

Answer 10

You might try actually reading the Bible.

Well, maybe not, you sound like you prefer your prejudice.

All sins can be forgiven, according to Jesus. Being separate from God is "like" the fires of Hell. It's not a place or a punishment for most normal people.

Take a piece of scripture out of the entire context of the Bible and you can twist it anyway you like to feed your intolerance of people's faith.

Answer 11

So there should be no principles and no right and wrong? Yes we know how liberals feel about morality and punishment; there should be neither. The problem is you are not God and you cant change God either. Your only options are to accept the principles he has laid out for humanity to know and understand or flat out deny it and be punished.

Justice never negates love, far from it.