After all, do you think that most of the people who are supposedly destined for hell deserve to burn for all eternity in fire and brimstone. Sure, certain people, such as Hitler or Jack the Ripper, for example, might deserve this, but do you think that atheists and other non-Christians deserve to burn? Also, why should God care if anyone believes in Him or worships Him? After all, He IS God, so He knows he exists. Also, He is supposed to be the one perfect being, but do you think that a perfect being would be so narcissistic as to condemn anyone who doesn't supplicate to Him?
2006-12-26 06:18:10 · 12 answers · asked by tangerine 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christendom's ideas about hellfire work primarily to betray God and the bible.
http://watchtower.org/e/pr/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
Jehovah's Witnesses preach the BIBLE's "good news", and leave all judging for Jehovah and Jesus to perform "on the last day".
(Acts 10:36,42) Declare to them the good news of peace through Jesus Christ: this One is Lord of all others. ...this is the One decreed by God to be judge of the living and the dead
(John 11:23-25) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” 24 Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life.
(John 12:48-49) The word that I [Jesus] have spoken is what will judge [a person] in the last day; 49 because I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment
(John 8:16) if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me
(Matthew 12:36) They will render an account concerning it on Judgment Day
(John 5:22,27-30) [The Father] has committed all the judging to the Son... 27 And he has given him authority to do judging, because Son of man he is. 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out... I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
(Acts 17:30-31) God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. 31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man [Jesus] whom he has appointed
In addition, Jehovah's Witnesses are quite famous for teaching that "hell" does not exist as Christendom has taught it; God has *NOT* arranged for any such place of fiery torment for sinners in some netherworld. The original Hebrew and Greek words most commonly translated as "hell" actually refer to the common grave of mankind; the Scriptures point forward to a time after Armageddon when humans will live forever and death and "hell" are themselves destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20000622/article_03.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20041201/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm
2006-12-26 08:03:24 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dear tangerine,
You have asked an excellent question! Most people in Y/A Religion think that God loves everyone but this is not true. Isaac and Rebecah had two sons that were twins. One, the elder, was named Esau, and the younger was named Jacob. God tells us that before they were even born, "Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated." You can read this in Romans 9:10-13.
The Bible tells us in Ephesians 1:3-5 that those whom God has chosen to save (the elect) were chosen before the Lord even created the world. We do not know who these "elect" are but God does the whole work of salvation through the hearing of His word-the Bible. That is why those who have been saved, want to get the Bible into all the world. The sheep (His people wil hear His word) but the goats (will not hear).
2006-12-26 06:38:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question isn't "Does God love eveyone?", but, "Do you love God?"
Our creation was an act of love. God lacks nothing and needs nothing, therefore, He did not have to create us, but He did - out of love. However, we are not forced to accept this. If we do not want to love God we do not have to. Consequently, realizing that we are His creation and our ultimate destination is a supernatual existence, not physical, then we must take into account where we will end up as a result of our choice to love or not love.
You gave examples of Jack the Ripper and Hitler and have no problem seeing them in hell; why then is it difficult to see others going to the same place? I can understand that people are different and went through different things in their lives, but on this we rely on God's mercy and forgiveness, as long as we accept His mercy, and on His final judgement.
God bless.
2006-12-26 06:46:20 · answer #3 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As Christians we are particularly obligated to forgive others who sin against us whether or no longer they're repentant or no longer. (Matthew 6:14-15, 18:23-35; Mark 11:25, Luke 17:3-4, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13). This holds authentic whether somebody sins against us repeatedly (Matthew 18:21-22). however, this would not provide us license to withhold forgiveness interior the comparable way. the substantial to undergo in suggestions is this: God can choose someone’s intentions by using fact He knows what’s in someone’s coronary heart (a million Samuel sixteen:7; Hebrews 4:12-13), while we don’t. we are no longer God. we are no longer the choose. For us to play God via refusing to furnish forgiveness is an act of judgment on our section. Why does hell even exist, and why does God deliver some people there? The Bible tells us that God “arranged” hell for the devil and the fallen angels as quickly as they rebelled against Him (Matthew 25:40-one). people who refuse God’s furnish of forgiveness will go through the comparable eternal way forward for the devil and the fallen angels. Why is hell needed? All sin is finally against God (Psalm fifty one:4), and because God is an limitless and eternal being, in basic terms an limitless and eternal penalty is sufficient. Hell is the placement the place God’s holy and righteous demands of justice are achieved. Hell is the place God condemns sin and all people who reject Him. The Bible makes it sparkling that we've all sinned (Ecclesiastes 7:20; Romans 3:10-23), so, as a effect, all of us should bypass to hell. So, how do we no longer bypass to hell? considering in basic terms an limitless and eternal penalty is sufficient, an limitless and eternal cost could be paid. God grew to grow to be someone interior the guy of Jesus Christ (John a million:a million, 14). In Jesus Christ, God lived between us, taught us, and healed us—yet those issues weren't His suited challenge. God grew to grow to be someone so as that He ought to die for us. Jesus, God in human style, died on the bypass. As God, His dying replaced into limitless and eternal in cost, paying the great cost for sin (a million John 2:2). God invites us to acquire Jesus Christ as Savior, accepting His dying by using fact the great and in basic terms cost for our sins. God can provide that totally everyone who believes in Jesus (John 3:sixteen), trusting Him on my own by using fact the Savior (John 14:6), would be stored/ bypass to heaven.
2016-10-19 00:17:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, this is one of the main reasons I left Christianity. God is all loving - but only so long as you obey his laws and worship him, give him thanks and acknowledge that everything good or bad in your life has come from him, because you have no ability to bring anything into your life on your own.
You can't say "all loving" and then say, "provided that". It goes against the definition of the word "all".
)O(
2006-12-26 06:24:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
People Hell is real and it's for those that are bad for punishment. This isn't a scare tactic to believe in Christ or all it's a place where all the evils goes.
2006-12-26 06:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you had a son wouldn't you want him to listen to you, to love you?
The hell isn't a biblical teaching.
Pagan religions are noted for teaching red-hot hells. The ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Persians, Grecians and Hindus taught flaming hells. The Buddhists teach a hell wherein people cook and sizzle in blazing kettles. Is the Bible hell as hot as the pagans paint theirs?
Turning to the book of Genesis, we read about the creation of the earth, seas, fish, animals and even the sun and the moon. Yet nowhere do we read about God’s creating a special underworld compartment for the broiling torment of man. It seems strange that, if he made one, God did not have recorded in the Bible the creation of such an important place as a burning hell. Yet suppose he did make one. Would not Jehovah’s love and justice have moved him to warn Adam of the full penalty of sin? Jehovah told Adam the consequence of sin was death. Are we really to think that, after Adam sinned, Jehovah changed his mind about the death sentence and decided to give Adam the torture treatment? The Bible answers: “I, Jehovah, change not.”—Mal. 3:6, AS.
Job was a faithful servant of God. Trying to break Job’s integrity, the Devil placed Job in a miserable state of affairs. So the suffering Job prayed to God: “Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell [Sheol, AS], and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?” (Job 14:13, Dy) Since Job was already being tormented by the Devil, would he pray to be “protected” in, of all places, a Devil-managed compartment of red-hot coals? Hardly! Job would not pray to go from the frying pan into the fire! Job understood hell to be the common grave of mankind where he would rest until the resurrection.
How does Almighty God look upon the idea of roasting men and women in fire? Well, man is made in the image of God. Yet we would not torture a man or a woman, even for one day! Why, the man who would torture a cat is, we say, a fiend. This is natural, since man does not love fiends; he detests them. Fiendishness repels. It is repugnant to God. For when the Israelites religiously burned their children in fire, Jehovah said: “They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.” (Jer. 7:31, AS) Fiendishness does not even enter the mind of the Creator. And no wonder, for “God is love.”—1 John 4:8.
Turning now to the Christian Greek Scriptures, we find that the word translated “hell” and that corresponds to Sheol is the Greek Hades. Does the literal meaning of Hades carry the thought of glowing fire? No, it simply means “the unseen state.” As with Sheol, there are no live people in Hades. “Death and Hades [hell, AV; Dy] gave up those dead in them.” (Rev. 20:13, NW) Since at the resurrection Hades gives up its contents of “dead” people, it is not eternal.
Thus far we have learned four things: (1) God detests fiendishness, (2) the good as well as the bad go to hell, (3) hell is not eternal, and (4) the Hebrews viewed hell or Sheol, not as a place of red-hot fire, but as the cold, silent grave.
2006-12-26 06:25:50 · answer #7 · answered by Alex 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God loves all people. God hates sin. God wants all people to turn from sin and accept Jesus as Savior. All people will be given the opportunity to choose God's ways or Satan's ways. So God doesn't put people in Hell. People put themselves there by the choice they make.
2006-12-26 06:27:02 · answer #8 · answered by djm749 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What exactly makes you think there IS a hell?
2006-12-26 06:23:44 · answer #9 · answered by Haven17 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell is not for good people sorry.
2006-12-26 06:26:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋