2007-01-26 19:05:52 · 18 answers · asked by a sock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, the Bible does that.
2007-01-26 19:11:00 · answer #1 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No. It's still your choice. If you don't believe in God, I doubt you believe in eternal damnation so that's not a threat to anyone that doesn't live & breathe the bible or the idea of God. If God forced us to do anything, don't you think he'd force people to believe in Him? No love is better than fake love.
2007-01-26 19:11:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Eternal Damnation is the natural consequence of not choosing to love God.
It always your choice. And you may ask, "Well what kind of choice is that?
I have wondered to same thing. Yet so many people, oh so many people have died and are facing such a fate. Lord, use me to bring as many people to you as you possibly can!!!
2007-01-26 19:15:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
What about the promise of eternal bliss in heaven? Why do you look at the empty half of the glass? You do not force someone to love you; you force them to obey you, to fear you, etc. But love does not come out of threat.
I choose to love Allah and obey Him because I love Him.
Peace
2007-01-26 20:11:21 · answer #4 · answered by daliaadel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a man-made concept in my opinion.
The Higher Power has no interest in forcing us to do anything.
Love is the truth.
Eternal damnation is the lie.
2007-01-26 19:19:58 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes I wonder if people ever consider what they are saying when thay ask a question. Could anyone be forced to love anyone else? Is God so foolish that he would attemept such foolishness? No of course not. We are damned by our own sin and a loving God provided salvation by paying with his innocence the penalty of death for uhat we could be with him forever.
2007-01-26 19:15:45 · answer #6 · answered by djmantx 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Odin is as actual as Zeus or Jupiter. in my opinion, i think of all of the mythological deities are rather devolved personifications of the actual God, Father individuals all. In different phrases, as people fell removed from the authentic God, they created those different mythical deities to serve interior the region of the authentic God. They embodied their mythological Deity with those features that they enjoyed from their previous traditions and discarded those features that they did no longer settle for.
2016-11-01 09:51:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love G-d, yet i don't believe in eternal damnation.
2007-01-26 19:19:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You make Him sound tyrannical, but nothing could be further from the truth! He isn't threatening us; He's telling us how to avoid the thin ice!
2007-01-26 19:20:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no---God gives us a choice. eternal life with Him or eternal separation from Him. its our choice! stop whining.
and Shawn---get a life. that's NOT the position of the Catholic Church. try talking to a Catholic instead of spouting all that protestant nonsense.
i've chosen eternal life with Him. to me, there wasn't really a choice!
2007-01-26 19:18:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Thats the catholic church. Jesus preaches salvation for all peoples.
39One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"
40But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence? 41We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong."
42Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.[f]"
43Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."
2007-01-26 19:10:42 · answer #11 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋