2006-12-05 03:42:19 · 4 answers · asked by pattie-cake 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If a man is sitting in an airplane at 25,000 feet and is told "here's a parachute, it will improve your flight if you put it on" he will probably put it on but then gradually grow uncomfortable from the pressure on his back and the people making fun of him for wearing a parachute. If instead he's told that the airplane is going to crash in a few minutes and the law of gravity creates the need for a parachute he will joyfully put it on and be ready when he has get out of the plane.
In the same way, all mankind has sinned and because of the law a holy and just God cannot let anyone into heaven unless there has been some sort of justice. God sent his son Jesus to die who lived a perfect life and took our place so that we can be made righteous in God's eyes and enter heaven.
As far as your question goes. Everyone is being offered a parachute because of the grace of God rather than just being allowed to fall. Will you put it on?
2006-12-05 05:02:32 · answer #1 · answered by cropdownunder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a frequently asked question. The answer is that He is does not want anyone to go to hell. "He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." 2 Peter 3:9b He mad a way for us to come to repentance through His Son's death on the cross. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 God made the "way out" through Jesus Christ. However, people go to hell because God also gave us something called free will. To be quite honest, the one mostly responsible for an individual going to hell, is that individual themselves. I hope that helps.
2006-12-05 05:48:45 · answer #2 · answered by spokenfor1922 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Understand the concept, "Who is God" and it would become simpler to understand God Almighty in its entirety.
God Almighty... a cluster of pure energy is but the sum total of all souls (atmans) in the cosmos at a given point of time. The essence of every soul (atman) being the same as God Almighty... every soul is but a minuscule God in its entity.
The moment the big bang occurs... all souls (atmans) existing in the Cosmos spread all over the cosmos with unimaginable speeds. The magnitude and the scale of the big bang are beyond the comprehension of the human beings to visualize. Nothing that exists in the cosmos in energy form can be visualized by the help of the senses and the mind.
This explosion of the big bang results in creation of a new cosmos... a new beginning! After billions of years when some planets become suitable for giving birth to life... the souls start manifesting body after another. And a planet like Mother Earth is born.
Now... what is this big bang theory! The big bang occurs in what! As has been defined above... the definition of God is, "the sum total of all purified souls atmans in the cosmos at a given point of time is what we know as God Almighty".
This cluster of pure energy we know as God accumulates in its absolute pure state only when the dissolution of the Cosmos occurs in its entirety. It is as if a huge cauldron of fire... a massive black hole has reduced the whole of the Cosmos to the size of half a thumb. It is this stage when every single soul atman in the Cosmos in whatever stage of life it may be liberates after gaining enlightenment and salvation. There is just no escape for the collapse of the whole of Cosmos has occurred.
As has been expressed by Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism that souls atmans in whatever stage of life they may be... continue their journey into the next Cosmos exactly from the point where they stood in the earlier manifestation is totally wrong. This is where the teachings of Jainism are flawed.
Bhagavad Gita... the sacred doctrine of Lord Krishna distinctly clarifies this point. And it is logical that when the collapse of the entire cosmos occurs... the question of souls remaining in their position as such and transitioning into the next Cosmos after the big bang occurs is but a flawed parable that defies all reasoning and logic.
The point of difference where Mahavira went wrong in understanding the teachings of Bhagavad Gita! The reason why Jainism branched into a new thinking pattern as advocated and doctored by Bhagwan Mahavira (the 24th and last Tirthankara of Jainism) is evidenced here. More on god here- http://www.godrealized.org/god/who_is_god.html
2006-12-05 05:40:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God wishes that no one is lost and has given us His Son so that by believing in Him we may have eternal happiness in Heaven.
by living the values of the Gospel of Christ all our lives we will not be condemned to Hell it is by rejecting Gods offer, that we actually choose Hell for ourselves.
2006-12-05 04:15:50 · answer #4 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋