If you believe in the Judeo-Christian theology, then how can you be happy in heaven knowing that your "un-saved" loved ones are eternally rejected or even burning in hell-fire for all eternity.
Doesn't that mean you have to learn indifference and non-love in order to be part of the Kingdom of heaven or is there still depression in heaven?
Does God erase your memory?
2007-01-18 14:38:33 · 5 answers · asked by Zeek 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not challenging it, I'm just confused.
2007-01-18 14:39:13 · update #1
Actually, the belief you described above is not found in the Bible; it is a hand-me-down from pagan Greece and Rome, who handed it down to the Roman Catholic Church, who handed it down to the Protestants.
The Bible tells us that Hellfire will not exist until the end of the Millennium, and then it will only be temporary - it will burn only long enough to completely consume all sinners and all trace of sin from the planet (it will be on the surface of this planet, not in some "netherworld".) Your lost loved ones will not suffer for eternity. Such a doctrine is not consistent with a loving, just God. God loves lost sinners just as much as the saved ones, so he will just "put them down" like a bad dog. Those with few sins will be consumed quickly, while the Hitlers of the world will suffer a little longer, but they will all be extinguished. To believe that sin and sinners go on forever is to believe that sin is stronger than God! The Bible says that "the wages of sin is DEATH"...not "eternal life" in Hellfire.
The Bible also says that once sin and sinners have been completely consumed, God will "wipe away every tear from [our] eyes". We will have had a chance to see why each and every person who was lost did not get to Heaven, and we will see and understand that God's judgment was just and fair.
2007-01-18 14:50:03 · answer #1 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You say that you "really believe in God". If you do, then these things are altogether possible. He is creator of Heaven and Earth and everything in them. He has no beginning and no end. We are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. When by faith we get to Heaven, we shall be like Him. No more sin, sickness, etc. I think that when we get to Heaven (and our loved ones don't) our memories will be blotted out so that we remember that person no more. Maybe that's wrong, but when we fall before the feet of Jesus--the one who suffered and died for our sins--nothing else will matter--we will be surrounded by a love that we never could have imagined in this life. I think that a lot of our problem is that our mind's eye is centered on the only thing we know--this life. There is so much more that we can never have even imagined that is waiting for us. Praise the Lord--I love Him so.
2016-05-24 05:37:39 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ teaching the Pharisees in Luke 16:19-31 shows us a separation from God is truly what hell is. The “water” is symbolic for God’s Spirit and love. The word “tormented” means distressed in the Greek, not torture. The “fire” is symbolic for the shame and desire not to be separated from God.
So all who die the first death of the flesh return to God Ecc.12:6-7, but on which side of the gulf do they end up?
Hell is not eternal but is done away with in Rev.20:14-15, called both the second death and lake of fire. This second death is non-existence, for death and hell and those not written in the book of life. This second death or lake of fire is like fat drippings that fall into the fire. Just a poof of smoke into non-existence.
Psa.37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
In my mind what’s worse yet is no memory of you, no tears will be shed for you like you never existed.
Rev.21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
So hell is a separation from God and is not eternal torture or burning. Eventually hell will be done away with or passed away and also some souls. Like fat drippings in the fire, a poof of smoke into non-existence, the second death.
2007-01-18 14:42:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the Bible says that he "wipes away every tear"...I have always thought that this was what he was talking about. What else would make you cry in heaven?
I do think you will feel a loss but God will comfort that loss. It makes me sad even now.
2007-01-18 14:43:30 · answer #4 · answered by Jennifer D 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont know..you tell me...
2007-01-18 14:41:44 · answer #5 · answered by Isuck,Usuck,Weallsuck 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋