2006-12-12 12:59:41 · 4 answers · asked by littlecwoman 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a Christian, certainly better after.
2006-12-12 13:04:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think most would answer after. Which calls into question God's supposed morality. Because he didn't send Jesus until well into humanity's history, millions of people will be sent to eternal torment without having had any way to get out of it. Is that fair or just? The only people from before the time of Jesus who are supposedly going to heaven are the Jews, meaning that it's really just a happenstance of birth that you don't spend eternity being tortured. How is that possibly fair or just? Or even moral?
Christians often like to analogize God's sending people to hell as the discipline a parent gives a child. In this scenario, the child has a choice between doing right and doing wrong. To follow the analogy, accepting Jesus would be the same as choosing. Now, would you still discipline your child if you didn't give the child a choice between right and wrong and forcing the child to be wrong? The child doesn't even grasp the concept of right and you're punishing him for being wrong. Is that moral or is it just child abuse?
2006-12-12 21:12:12 · answer #2 · answered by abulafia24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know which took more faith.
But I'm happy to be here now and have the New Testament telling of me Jesus and not just the Old Testament......though both have the promises of salvation through the Annointed One (Hebrew: Messiah, Greek: Christ)
2006-12-12 21:50:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite happy living now thank you.Although it would be interesting to be able to come back in a hundred years to see how things have changed
2006-12-12 21:08:08 · answer #4 · answered by rosbif 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋