Because they don't have the right belief?
2007-02-09 15:56:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nope, my Gods don't condemn people to eternal torment for not worshiping them. Ah but I'm a Heathen, not a Christian.
2007-02-09 16:04:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
God made a way for them to have the right belief, and if they don't take it then it is too bad, but eternal torment is the only option left.
2007-02-10 00:02:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I will say it this way - YES.
He loves those more than enough to allow them to hell if THEY so choose. If they want to live their life on earth without Him, then eternity shouldn't be a problem to them.
1. If people don't believe I existed, than why bother allowing entrance into my house.
2. If people worship other gods, than let those gods enter in their house.
3. Why would anyone allow someone in their house who mocks them?
4. God does not condemn people to hell, those who are going CHOOSE to go on their own free will.
2007-02-10 00:03:00 · answer #3 · answered by n9wff 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dude, man is the problem. It's not that God hates us. He loves us! In the Garden of Eden, one of God's favorite things to do was to just TALK to man! God doesn't hate man. And it's not that God wants man to go to hell, just because "they won't believe what I, the powerful God, say!" God is not on an ego trip. The Bible says that God is love. Not He loves, but He is love: that is His very nature, and all true love comes from Him. (don't say that I'm not making my point, just please keep reading)
God doesn't want people to go to hell. He aches with grief everytime a soul slips from this life into eternity without Him. But because God loves man so much, He gave them a choice. To understand this, picture this.
You know from basic logic that a guy can't love his wife and also hold a gun to her head and say, "Love me, or I'll shoot you." God didn't want to make someone have a loving relationship with Him just because they HAD to love Him, just because they were made that way; it wouldn't be fair to us, and it wouldn't be actual love. So God made it simple: He told man, "I want to have a love relationship with you. Put me first, and I will put you first." This is the greatest relationship, because if two people put each other first, both of their needs are met while they both are creating a loving dependency and thankfulness for one another. But God also said, "If you don't want to love me, I can't make you and say that I love you. So if you don't want to love me, don't put me first." AND THAT'S WHAT MAN DID. It was the equivalent of a man coming home, and his wife was having an affair with another man. She would be saying, "You have done everything good for me, but I don't want you any more. I'd rather put my having a good time above how you feel." If someone murders ruthlessly in cold-blood, I'm sure even some atheists agree that that person must die. If someone commits adultery on their spouse, it only seems fair that the spouse is no longer required to protect and put that person above their own needs like before. So when man cheated on a perfect loving God, the only punishment that would pay for this treachery was eternal seperation from God--hell.
A sentence to hell is the only punishment that is equal to man's treachery; it's not because of God's lack of love.
The reason why other beliefs are not accepted?: other beliefs say that man has to do things to reach God; but man has done the crime and left a crime debt, like a fine, that's too great and treacherous to pay for by any other means--he has to go to hell to receive punishment for it, unless someone else who is able pays that fine for him. Other beliefs don't tell about the only way, the only person that could ever take the punishment and loved you enough to do it: Jesus.
I encourage you, get a New Living Translation or a Message Translation of the Bible (easier wording), or go to biblegateway.com, and read the book of John. I know that some of it is hard to understand, but see if you can see a God laughing at man's miserable state when Jesus is healing the crippled man in John 5, or when he feeds five thousand people just because they're hungry and could possibly faint on the way home. And who knows, maybe you will get to know other important things about God, like how much he loves you and wants to know you personally.
Sorry the answer was so long. But maybe its like complicated mathematics: you can't ask for a two word answer if you want to fully understand the problem.
I don't know what has happened in the past to make you mad about God, but I know it was not because God didn't love you. Maybe you didn't understand, or maybe it was something else, but God loves you more than any man or woman will ever love you. I hope you'll really get to know what my God is like.
2007-02-10 01:31:30 · answer #4 · answered by Chris R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Imperfect pretend to understand and be able to predict the actions of the Perfect. Meanwhile Divinity sits, shaking It's head and smiling wistfully at the confusion it has wrought by giving these little things such brilliant imperfect minds.
2007-02-10 00:09:09 · answer #5 · answered by gimmenamenow 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God only judges people. He doesn't condemn them; their own choices condemn them. We all have the same choice, believe in God, give Him your heart and life and accept salvation, or not. Each of us chooses our own belief system.
Be blessed.
2007-02-10 00:02:22 · answer #6 · answered by Sandy S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope, that's a gnostic myth that "crept in unawares". God, of course is Perfection, which includes all powerful. The only possible end result of this (unavoidable lesson and) journey away from Perfection-Life-God, is the best possible end result.
Nothing but the best possible 'end' result is possible.
2007-02-10 00:03:49 · answer #7 · answered by flowerchilde 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No my God loves the world so much that He gave His only son, that whoever believes in Him will not be condemned. Therefore, the condemnation rests with the one who rejects Jesus....not with God.
2007-02-10 00:00:22 · answer #8 · answered by Esther 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
There is no your God. Because ther is only One God Our God
2007-02-10 02:24:32 · answer #9 · answered by Inessik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People reject God, it is not the other way round. There are a lot of reasons why they do, but I feel everybody makes a decision.
2007-02-10 00:02:12 · answer #10 · answered by Jason 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋