real love or compassion?
2007-01-13 05:23:06 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is the creator;we are the creation
Does not the Creator have authority to do what He wants with His creation?
2007-01-13 05:26:09 · answer #1 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 1⤊ 6⤋
The Lord is always neutral in the material activities of the created world. The example can be given of a high-court judge. By his order so many things are happening—someone is being hanged, someone is being put into jail, someone is awarded a huge amount of wealth—but still he is neutral. He has nothing to do with all that. You can not say that he is cruel for sending a serial killer to be hanged.
We are not going to hell forever, we go just for some time to cool us down our sinful activities. Just like a loving father punish his son to be corrected, he punish his son out of love so the son do not deviate.
2007-01-13 14:06:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't "send" anybody to hell. Hell is just what being apart from Him is like. It's misery and despair, and eternal torment. But He's not going to force you to love Him, if you refuse to do so. Hell is the result of that choice, and He told you that fact to try to save you from it, so it isn't His fault if you reject Him anyway. If you won't accept the only happiness that exists, then you'll have to be always in despair. If you won't eat the only food in the universe, then you'll have to starve. That's just the way things are. Asking God to let you have happiness apart from Him is asking for something that doesn't exist, like asking Him to let you come back to Him without coming back to Him. It's self-contradictory, and therefore impossible.
2007-01-13 13:37:14 · answer #3 · answered by Billy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God loves the WHOLE WORLD, that is why He gave them a way to heaven. He is holy and He created us to have a loving relationship with Him, we chose through sin to separate ourselves from Him, God loves us so much so He had to do something in order for us to be with Him for eternity, and have a loving personal relationship with Him- the sacrifice of His Son on the Cross. It is not His choice if we go
to hell, it is ours. The choice is up to us, He wants all the world to come to know Him, but because we are sinners we cannot be in His presence, except through the shed blood of Christ.
2007-01-13 18:36:33 · answer #4 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are in error, God sends no one to hell. He gives us a choice.
We make the decision where we will spend eternity.
God chooses not to force us to make the right decision. For this reason He gave us a mind and a free will to choose. That is why we are called "Followers" of Christ Jesus. We made a deliberate decision to Follow His ways. People send themselves into hell by their own selfish or sinful decisions they made while they lived on this earth. This is why God makes is so easy to be saved, so that no one will have an excuse standing before Him. God will not judge us based on what others did, He will judge us based on what we did. We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God, we all, myself included, deserve eternal damnation for our sinful acts. Thank God that His plan for our salvation is very simple.
Accept Jesus Christ as Lord of your life, repent of our sinful behavior and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is God Almighty. Sin brings upon us, evil and every kind of wickedness that we are facing today. Sin is rebellion towards Gods Holy Word. God brings His blessings to those who truly seek Him.
He is a loving and merciful God. Peace.
2007-01-13 14:02:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God must punish sin. Otherwise He wouldn't be good. Would you like your mansion in Heaven next to Adolf Hitler and have Saddam Hussein live across the street from you? Doesn't sound like Heaven to me. Remember, Heaven and Hell are eternal. Heaven is where God is, Hell is where the unrepentant sinners go. God must separate the righteous (not the self-righteous) from the unbelieving unrepentant.
We are all sinners. God became a man to pay for our sins on the cross. We, who repent of our sins and trust Jesus to save us from God's wrath pass from death to life and will see the kingdom of heaven. This is done by faith and faith alone. Nobody is good enough to go to Heaven. God's acceptable sacrifice on the cross allows us to enter into Heaven only through repentance and faith. Not works, so no man can boast.
2007-01-13 13:40:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is loving and there is no such thing as hell if he loved us do you think he would put something he created there. And people that say that have no love or compassion! If they made something so valuable and precious would they burn it? No they'd give it a 2nd chance at life
2007-01-21 04:22:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is loving, but he is not the one who sends people to hell. God gave man free choice, meaning they can serve him or evil. Those who choose evil go to hell. Yet God is loving, Jesus Christ was the ultimate sacrifice, so that imperfect people can surpass death. This is loving, is it not.
It is the choice of the people, not of God.
2007-01-13 15:03:24 · answer #8 · answered by Sam L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He does not send anyone to hell or heaven but we choose. Hell was made for Satan and his angels at first but opened up to us too. He has made a way for everyone to escape hell through believing in his son Jesus. If he was not loving he would not have made a way for us to escape that place.
2007-01-13 15:01:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good, young Padawan... The force is strong with this one!!
Yes... if you've read the Bible and applied some common sense to it, the only logical concluson is that the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible/Torrah/Koran is a sadistic bastard. Hardly worthy of anyone's worship, in my humble opinion.
Obviously, I don't believe in any god, but if some creator of the world ripped the sky open and jumped out and proved himself to be the God of the Bible and the creator of all things, I still would not worship him.... It takes more than a bully to gain my loyalty and I don't want to be anybody's plaything.
2007-01-13 13:33:02 · answer #10 · answered by hyperhealer3 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well if I believed in God, which I don't, I would tell you that God doesn't send people to hell but Satan just brings them in. I know because I've asked this question too many times. Doesn't make much sense but that's the answer.
2007-01-13 13:31:09 · answer #11 · answered by Dido 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋