2006-12-30 13:18:15 · 42 answers · asked by Psichore 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So far you are all missing the point of my question... Stop looking at it from a human point of view, i know it's difficult for some of you narrowminded religious types, but at least try... what does it really matter to 'God' if people goto 'Hell' or not? Why even bother having one?
2006-12-30 13:22:53 · update #1
Furthermore, i'd like to add for those of you mentioning Jesus being sent as 'God's only child'... For so called believers you seem to have missed a huge point about what Jesus was trying to teach people...that we are ALL gods children. Jesus was not LITERALLY God's son, he was a holy man preaching that all people are equal... Something you all seem too eager to forget... why is that??
2006-12-30 13:32:25 · update #2
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2006-12-30 13:19:19 · answer #1 · answered by Robert K 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Very good question.
The obvious answer is that any God worth the name - with an inhumanly vast intellect, incredible powerful - wouldn't!
Its like grew an ant farm - would you feel a need to give the ants eternal life and keep them with you just because you made their colony? There seems to be a severe limit imposed on the thinking of religious types that they can't understand these arguments or don't want to. I don't know if religion weakens the ability for rational thought or just if people less rational (and less comfortable with thinking for themselves) are more likely to be attracted to religion.
Don't forget there are very likely billions of inhabited worlds in the Universe - if we're the best God's made I feel very sorry for him. Besides if when we die there's an infinitesimal pause between us dying and appearing in the afterlife then why bother? We wouldn't know the difference! The very notion of us having a soul is a bit naive and should have been disproved with over a century of neurobiology but as I said at the beginning, fuzzy headed theological types are immune to reason.
OH - and I love all you Christians who say God will burn you in hell forever if you go against him - but he loves you. You do so make me laugh.
2006-12-31 01:02:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're looking at this all wrong because you are imposing the way you are with the way God is. Just because you wouldn't care if other people went to hell doesn't mean that God feels that way.
We are created in the image of God, which in essence makes us "little gods"; His children.
There are 2 kingdoms. The Kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan. The kingdom of Satan consists of those who have rebelled against God, mainly the angels who rebelled with Lucifer.
There are 2 places in this universe, a place where those who have rebelled against God will be that was prepared for these angels, and a place for those who are innocent or who follow God. We as humans were never intended to go to the place that was prepared for the rebellious angels, but when we rebel against the way God has for us it is the only place we can go, for God and rebellion cannot be in the same place.
And, whatever you might think or say, God does truly love you.
2006-12-30 13:50:35 · answer #3 · answered by akoloutheo2 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to your comment you will condemn me for saying this, but that is ok- God does care, that is why He sent Jesus. It makes a lot of difference to God because He desires to fellowship with His creation. No we are not ALL God's children. We were created by Him, but until we accept His Son dying on the cross for our sins we go to hell, plan and simple and we not His child. If God did not care why would He want to send His Son to suffer. He loves you that much that He wants you to live eternally with Him, You will live eternally, it just depends where.
2006-12-30 15:00:50 · answer #4 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(2Peter 3:9-10) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
(2Pe 3:10) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Thanks, RR
2006-12-30 13:22:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can see that God loves us greatly. For the Almighty God to announce " For God so love the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting live" is the proof.
Given freedom of choice we chose death through disobedience.
Other false Gods would just leave us in this lost state eternally,
but the loving God came to our rescue by dying on the cross
Himself to save the human race from eternal death.
All we need is to trust Him and obey Him to be saved.
2006-12-30 13:32:17 · answer #6 · answered by Charles H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't make a difference to "a God" as you have put it. He created us and then told us we are responsible for choosing the right path. The reason why there is a heaven and a hell is because God wishes to create rewards and consequences, respectively, for our actions. He is merely the supervisor who decides, at the end of our lives, which of the two we end up in (when talking in terms of the afterlife).
2007-01-01 06:20:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was concieved of the Holy Spirit, in the virgin Mary, it says so in the Bible. The Holy Spirit is the third part of God. And i know its hard for you narrowminded athiests to understand, but yes, God is three in one. So Jesus is God's son. And, he is the second part of the trinity. Now that you are thoroughly confused, i will tell you this. God created us, and adopts us as his children. We are not equal to Jesus, since he is part of God, but we are equal to other humans. And it pains him very much when his creation chooses not to serve him and is cast into hellfire
Why do athiests ask things like this. They don't believe what we tell them anyway.
2006-12-30 13:55:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Think about this for a second:
If you were to have a child (create a living, breathing, human soul) would you want your child, whom you undoubtedly would love very much, to face such a horror as Hell?
Through examples in the Bible, we know that God has emotions (i.e. Jesus wept at Lazarus' death, God was angery with Moses when he disobeyed him, etc.). Knowing that God has emotions just as much as we humans do, how could he bear to lose a child to Hell?
2006-12-30 13:26:27 · answer #9 · answered by starsk8r8190 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You answered your question by stating-"...that we are ALL gods children". Therefore the merciful & ever caring God cares about His children going to hell or heaven. He wouldn't be a good Father otherwise.
2007-01-03 09:22:37 · answer #10 · answered by Oblivion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I keep saying in answer to various questions, heaven and hell are states of being.
Heaven is nearness to God. Hell is remoteness from God. They exist in this world and the afterlife.
It's not like God is throwing people in a big fire. Hell is the condition of not being near to God. If I am far from God in this life, I am in hell.
God wants us to be in heaven because He loves us. He doesn't want anyone to be in a state of remoteness from Him, but He gives us free will to choose.
2006-12-30 13:24:10 · answer #11 · answered by darth_maul_8065 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋