According to the bible...?

Question

Let me see if I have this straight:

1. god creates the Universe.

2. god creates heaven (a very good place) and hell (a very bad
place).

3. god creates mankind and gives us souls (parts of us that live on after our physical body dies)

4. god demands reverence, respect and worship from all of mankind while we are alive on Earth.

5. god casts the souls of those who do not have reverence, respect and worship for it into hell (a place that it has created just for this purpose) for all eternity.

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IN CONCLUSION:

Your "god" either (a) has serious self-esteem issues (b) suffers from an inferiority complex or (c) is just plain f*cked in the head.

Which one is it?

Answer 1

God is worst than Stalin on a vodka bender.

Answer 2

This is a straw man argument, because the last 4 points you used are incorrect according to Scripture. #2 is partially wrong because Hell does not yet exist. It will not exist until the end of the Millennium. #3 is wrong because the Bible says that "God alone hath immortality", and "The soul that sinneth, it shall DIE". The soul does not live on after death. Eternal life is a gift from God given only when Christ returns to this Earth, and not before. Before that time, the dead, both the wicked and the righteous, are "asleep" (in a kind of unconscious state) until Christ returns. Only then will they receive new, eternal physical bodies. They will never be "ghosts".
#4 is partially wrong because although we are to worship God and God alone, it is because He is the Creator of the Universe and the Creator of our bodies, and He is due reverence anyway. NOT to revere God is basically saying that you are better than God, which is the same mistake that Satan made. The reverence we give to God is similar to that which we would give to a king.
#5 is not correct because, as I said before, Hell will not exist until the end of the Millennium, at which time the wicked dead will be resurrected to their final punishment, which is eternal death. "The wages of sin is DEATH" ....not "eternal life in Hellfire". They will be completely consumed and will never again exist. They will not be tortured forever. It is the only way to completely cleanse all sin and sinners from the universe.
The doctrines of the "immortal soul" and "eternally burning Hell" do not come from Scripture, but from ancient pagan Greece and Rome, who passed it down to the Catholic Church, who passed it down to the Protestants. These doctrines have done more to drive people away from Christ than anything else.

Answer 3

Hello,

1) Correct...Genesis 1:1-In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2)Correct/False...Again God created the heaven, there is no hell.
3)Correct.False...Genesis 1:26..God created man to his image according to his likeness./We do not have a soul, we are a soul Ezekiel 18:4-All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.
4) Correct-Revelation 4:11-You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created
5)False...There is no hell, but according to 1 Peter 4:5-But these people will render an account to the one ready to judge those living and those dead...


I hope this helps!

~browneyes~

Answer 4

I am in no way religious, but thought I'd answer this anyway. If there really was a God, unless you were wicked (like John Wayne Gacy wicked I mean) then you wouldn't go to hell anyway. He loves us, or rather supposed to, therefore why would he cast us into hell. That to me is just wrong. Besides, if I was to become religious I'd go Catholic. There you can sin all week long, repent once a week, and TAAA DAAAA - you are back into heaven.

Answer 5

heaven isn't a "very good place" its where we can see God, and live with God for all eternity. hell is complete separation from God, not a "very bad place". actually God created man and gave us spirits, and souls. Souls are our conscience and our inner desires and spirits are our desire to do good. God doesn't "demand" anything from us, God gave us a choice to either accept him and have all of your sins forgiven our reject him and not have your sins forgiven. God doesn't base whether you go to heaven or hell based on whether you ahve "revernce, respect and worship" for him, he bases it on whether you have chosen to accept him or not. You have to be perfect in Gods eyes to enter heaven, thus accepting the blood of Jesus, who was one human who was perfect, to take all of your sins away thus making you perfect in God's eyes. It's not like God enjoys sending those to hell. you've got it all wrong, the Bible isn't about what God wants, its what God wants for you.

Answer 6

Actually you a little off. Man gave reverence and respect because God is worthy. Man inherited death by disobedience to the law. God paid the penalty of death for those who accept it. Proving again that he is worthy of worship. God does not kill people for not worshiping him. Man has caused his own distruction and Christ paid with his flesh the penalty of death for us.

Answer 7

God is a reflection of man. a, b, and c are all correct. God has those human traits because God was created by man.

Answer 8

None of the above.
God can only create perfect souls. We all end up in heaven.
Regards
DL

Answer 9

You forgot.

Your God is made up.

love and blessings Don

Answer 10

That concept of God is a bad one. That's why our country is so messed up.