Does this really make sense to you? To me, it just doesn't add up. A God of love would not send people to eternal damnation. Could it be possible that hell was invented by some religions as a way of controlling the masses?
2006-11-27 22:29:56 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it is funny that a place for people to suffer for eternity was never mentioned until the Inquisition. One would think they would have mentioned something like that much earlier.
2006-11-27 22:32:52 · answer #1 · answered by Stephen 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
God would not, I believe that we are like children (even Hitler gets a pass on this one). Would a loving father condemn a 4 year old with a chemical imbalance to death or damnation? Of course to come out and say there is no punishment would result in everyone going nuts, so there is the fear. I believe real hell would be to stand before The Perfection Of God and have to replay all you sins, The embarassment and shame would be perfect hell, then God's forgiveness would be pure grace!
2006-11-27 22:36:41 · answer #2 · answered by SweetDeath! 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is organic and suited without sin. He represents each and every thing it particularly is powerful and respectable. people who do unlike morals, policies, holiness will insurrection against god, such as you're doing now the place else do you anticipate God to place you in case you reject him. The soul is eternal, and there is only 2 places it could bypass after dying, with God or to hell. in case you do unlike God and what he represents ,why could he help you into heaven? the only reason you're alive is through his mercy, he can kill you as a non believer so which you will bypass to hell, rather he facilitates you to spit on his face until eventually sooner or later you awaken and say " i'm a sinner". and guess what, he will forgive you. does not look merely like this variety of God you describe him to be now does it.
2016-10-04 11:20:31 · answer #3 · answered by wiemer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've often wondered the same thing. If God truly loves us all, and wishes that none of us should perish, why would he create a place such as Hell in the first place? Logically, I would have to assume that it has more to do with fear than anything. In virtually all societies, there has to be some sort of a punishment process for all crimes. Jail, for instance, is initially supposed to be a deterrent for all potential criminals and lawbreakers.
However, I would question the REASON that people are cast into Hell. If we all exist now, in God's certainty that we will all fall short of his expectations, the prime determinant in whether or not we'll go to Hell is more in what we believe in; not what we do. Why is God so willing to cast a good person into Hell for simply not believing in His existence when there is clearly insufficient evidence to do so? Is that just? Is that sadistic? Is there any merit in what could be easily construed as such a narcisistic thought process? You tell me.
2006-11-27 22:47:54 · answer #4 · answered by sevaspeto 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no.God said in Jeremiah 7: 31 And they have built the high places of To′pheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hin′nom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart. ------God detests it so why would he create it?
Ecclesiastes 9: 5 says the dead are conscious of nothing at all. Since the dead have no conscious existence, hell cannot be a fiery place of torment where the wicked suffer after death. What, then, is hell? Examining what happened to Jesus after he died helps to answer that question. The Bible writer Luke recounts: “Neither was [Jesus] forsaken in Hades [hell, King James Version] nor did his flesh see corruption.” (Acts 2:31) Where was the hell to which even Jesus went? The apostle Paul wrote: “I handed on to you . . . that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, yes, that he has been raised up the third day according to the Scriptures.” (1 Corinthians 15:3, 4) So Jesus was in hell, the grave, but he was not abandoned there, for he was raised up, or resurrected.
Yet someone may object, saying: ‘The Bible does talk about hellfire and the lake of fire. Does this not prove that hell is a place of torment?’
True, some Bible translations, such as the King James Version, speak of “hell fire” and of being “cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched.” (Matthew 5:22; Mark 9:45) All together there are 12 verses in the Christian Greek Scriptures where the King James Version uses “hell” to translate the Greek word Gehenna. Is Gehenna really a place of fiery torment, whereas when Hades is translated “hell” it simply means the grave?
The Teaching of hell torment comes from False religion...so if your religion teaches that you better think, are they just teaching us this so we may be afraid and follow them?
Wouldnt it be better to follow God out of love and not fear? After all God is love....
2006-11-27 22:33:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
God is also just.
Hell is certainly a reality.
My boyfriend who is a born again Christian, once asked the Lord why He never saved him at 13 and not 23. The Lord recently responded by saying He HAD called him THREE times at the age of 13, and my boyfriend remembered in that instance, those exact three times.
And so it is with all of us. He gives us ALL a fair chance to enter the Kingdom of God and it is our choice if we dont.
God is just and fair.
2006-11-27 22:36:50 · answer #6 · answered by ccc4jesus 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hell is not created for people but for the Satan and the fallen angels, but when men disobayed God who is "Love" and selected Satan who loves to torment and let people suffer. the reward is by your choice you will enter in the place where your master is.
thats why the loving God compells you to avoid his tacticks and tricks to live as you like and his influence in your life to reject God.
Loving God tells you to repent and come to Him, but if you select to be with Satan who can help
2006-11-27 22:40:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hello Sam D.. :)
God did not create Hell (Lake of Fire) for man..it was intended for satan and his angels..
When man committed sin, and turned away from God, they have made their own choice..for it is God's desire that none shall perish..but for all to come to the Love and Saving Knowledge of Him.. :)
Example..if you lie to someone..can you blame someone else for you lies..No of course not..then why do people blame God for their own actions, for we all have our own free will..you can not have it both ways, it is one or the other..
Choose this day whom thou shall serve.. :)
Please listen to this video..here within is the answer you so seek.. :)
http://fathersloveletter.com/fllnarration.html
In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With Love..In Christ.. :)
2006-11-27 22:41:48 · answer #8 · answered by EyeLovesJesus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a question that keeps coming up here on YA..The answer is NO! In spite of all the controversy, I'll give you the truth, according to the Bible...altho it is NOT a popular belief. Seems that people are comfortable condemning others to death in Hell, altho they cannnot prove it.
The word HELL in the Bible, means the grave. We are all going to the grave when we die, therefore we are going to hell....BUT HELL is NOT an everburning torture for anyone, regardless of how they lived their life. God is a loving and forgiving God, and doesn't want anyone to perish. Therefore God's plan for all peoples who didn't live according to how He instructed us to,
( the 10 Commandments) is to be resurrected at some point in the future, after Jesus takes the true Christians with Him. There will be multitudes of peoples, who haven't accepted Christ in this lifetime...(and that is according to God's plan ) They will NOT go to HELL,..they already went to the grave, or are still alive, but they have not accepted Christ. Jesus will then teach them how to obey God, how to follow Him, and live as He showed us how to, when He lived on Earth. These people, like yourself, will then be given their first chance to know what being a Christian really is. After that, they either chose to follow Christ, or they choose death! Death at that point, to those who chose to turn their back on Christ, (Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit...the unpardonable sin) is punishable by being consumed by fire, burned up completely, turned to ashes...as if they never existed.
I realize how upsetting this Biblical truth is, to many...but...you can study it in the Bible,,,give yourself a challenge, even just to prove that it is not true!
So don't listen to those who falsely tell you that you are going to HELL!!! People believe this, and they use scare tactics to turn others to Christ. This is NOT the way Christ would want us to worship HIM!!!! Jesus wants each and every one of us to accept His sacrifice, His dying for us, by our free will, and our Love for Him. There is no other way.
So, Biblically speaking, "Are all non-Christians going to hell?'..The answer is NO!
Just think how many people would be burning in Hell, according to this false belief that most people have of HELL. What kind of loving God would create so many souls, and then have them burn for all eternity in Hell????
It's not the God I worship, and God wants us to worship in Spirit and in TRUTH!!!
I sincerely pray that this helps you.
God bless you...
2006-11-27 22:36:32 · answer #9 · answered by JoJoCieCie 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
there is no such hell but the pace where souls or spirit of
sinners will be punished by means of suffering by fire
2006-11-27 22:47:17 · answer #10 · answered by gameboy christian 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋