Ok, I see all of these questions and answers that list Scripture versus. However I wonder if you can actually explain your position with out directly quoting Scripture... Lets be clear this is not an attack. I am a Catholic and I know the bible but I also know that knowing the bible and knowing my faith are two different things... God gave us the bible as a Users manual to tell us what he wants not for us to memorize and recite at a moments notice. Its not the Pledge of allegance. So back to the question Can anyone (using the bible as a guide not quoting it) explain Hell or creation or the forgiveness of sin? Just wondering
I look forward to reading the answers.
2007-01-13 03:03:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I want some thought put into these questions... not one liners...
2007-01-13 03:10:20 · update #1
What is Hell??? How did God create the universe/earth??? What was the forgiveness of sin/ why did we need it???
Come on people... think
2007-01-13 03:13:49 · update #2
Well stated question. It is my belief that God created mankind to be in fellowship with him. Hell to me is being separated from God. God made a way for us to be in eternal fellowship with him as his children by sending his only begotten son to earth, to die for us, so that we may gain spiritual eternal life. God is first and foremost a spiritual entity. Through Jesus resurrection we have the gift offered to us of reconciliation with God our father and creator. All one has to do is realize they are lost and a separated from God because of sin and disbelief; and, accept the gift of salvation through Jesus. Hell is to be eternally separated from God. Hell will be realizing throughout eternity that we chose to reject God and threw away the chance of a lifetime.
2007-01-13 03:20:53 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Di-USA 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, every word written in the Holy Bible is God breathed.
It was written for sinners. That's all us. Quoting from the Holy Bible is very important. Because believers and non believers want to know, or always ask any way... where?, show me!,prove it, and etc. It isn't some ones personal opinion about "what" , it is Gods word. God says not to seek out ungodly council also. So someone telling me their own version of what they think it means without Bible verses backing is questionable, not that they may be wrong or right, just questionable. The Bible says if it brings confusion then leave it be. Confusion is not of God.
2007-01-13 03:26:06 · answer #2 · answered by Melissa M 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Creation occurred when God made the world. People only go to hell for one thing, and that is rejecting Jesus Christ. Think about it. If accepting Christ gets you to heaven then rejecting him must send you to hell. Forgiveness of all the sins you've ever committed up to that point occurs when you accept Christ. After that forgiveness occurs whenever you go to God and say I did this sin and I'm sorry. Those are STRICTLY MY OWN beliefs about all that, in a nut shell.
2007-01-13 03:10:48 · answer #3 · answered by Bethe W 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is a very good reason that people use Scripture to answer questions. First of all, God is the authority. All the questions we need answers to are found in his word, The Bible. There is a tendency to misinterpret God's Word, when left up to us alone. That is very dangerous and misleads many. I am sure you are going to love the following because, here go the Scriptural back-up...
Proverbs 3:5-7: "Trust in Jehovah with all your heart and do not lean upon your own understanding. 6 In all your ways take notice of him, and he himself will make your paths straight.
7 Do not become wise in your own eyes. Fear Jehovah and turn away from bad.
Hebrews 4:12: "For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints and [their] marrow, and [is] able to discern thoughts and intentions of [the] heart."
2 Timothy 4:3 & 4: "For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories."
Matthew 15:9: "It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
When Jesus was teaching, he referred to the Hebrew Scriptures often, quoting from them regularly. Often he said: "It is written".
1 Corinthians 10:11: "Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived."
Therefore it is vital that people know what is written in God's Word, the Bible. There is no other book that can tell us what God's plan for our future is, or how we can survive the coming end of this system. It would be a huge dis-service, not to use the Scriptures.
Proverbs 14:12: " There exists a way that is upright before a man, but the ways of death are the end of it afterward."
What you are asking for is mans opinions and not that of God. Seek your answers from the source. You know what happens when man starts putting their twists on things. Tell something to one person and when it gets back around to you , you can barely recognize that it started with you.
2 Peter 3: 15 & 16: " Furthermore, consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given him also wrote YOU, 16 speaking about these things as he does also in all [his] letters. In them, however, are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unsteady are twisting, as [they do] also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction."
2007-01-13 03:56:08 · answer #4 · answered by wannaknow 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The (plural) Scriptures contain Scripture vs Scripture.
The objective is to "know" which Script-u-are of twain.
It is NOT all (plural) scriptures that are inspired of God.
Rather it's all "scripture" is inspired of God: 2Tim 3:16.
God(Grace) neither tempts, nor can God be tempted.
If tempted, then it is by your own lust for Law: James.
They that observe lying vanites(laws)
forsake their own mercy(grace): Jonah.
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2007-01-13 03:18:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The second death is final.
I explain creation with the genealogy of Jesus and the bible math of time to him.
All possible will be saved and any not saved has self to blame.
2007-01-13 03:12:42 · answer #6 · answered by jeni 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Unrepentant sin/rebellion
God's Earth and all that inhabit it including all that He has willed us to have...which excludes entitlement, haste, etc
His Mercy and Grace
2007-01-13 03:14:30 · answer #7 · answered by GoodQuestion 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God will forgive anyone that honestly with their heart ask for it.
2007-01-13 03:08:06 · answer #8 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋