Jesus question?

Question

If God is omnipresent, why do we have to accept Jesus in our hearts if he's already there?
Also, Is God present in Hell?

If God was not in hell, God would be considered a self-contradiction.

Answer 1

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. {hebrews10:4)
vs:9-12
'then He said, "BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO THY WILL." He takes away the first in order to establish the second. By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
'And every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD..
...And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, "THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM - AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART, AND UPON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM," He then says, "AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin. Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh.."

Psalm 139:8 - "If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there."

Answer 2

God is omnipresent in hell, paradise, everwhere.The extent of hell and heaven both are unlimited and overlapping each other but in a different dimension.Whatever is present in this unverse belongs to him and owes its existance because of his presence.Heven and hell does make a difference for him because He above all the attributes of these places to harm Him or give Him any adnantage or relief.
Jesus son of Mary was a helpless man, he could not rule the hearts of those following him when he travelled to Jerusalium because they all left him. When the Jews and Romans had come arrest him after the lecture on the hill, nobody from his followers mustered the courage to support him against those soldiers.He is dead since long, he cannot be in your hearts except metaphorically.

Answer 3

Who ever said that God was omnipresent? God cannot abide sin, therefore he keeps it at a distance. Hell is merely the absence of God. God's existence transcends time AND space. He is beyond the realm of the physical, but due to His omnipotence, His "hand" may extend anywhere.

As for Jesus, he is seated at the right hand of God in heaven. His presence was replaced at Pentecost by the descent of the Holy Spirit who blesses those who willingly seek God through the perfect cleansing sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

Ther is no burning hell. Hell simply translates in the greek or hebrew as grave or hades. It is simply the grave. Plus god accepted Jesus sacrifice. It is so arrogant of most christians to say OH Yes I accept Jesus. God does the accepting not people. Our part is to belive what God has said. The first sin was unbelief,thats why the only way back to God is by faith. God has accepted Jesus sacrifice for our sins. If we belive that,and if we belive Jesus was raised again from the dead,we are saved.

Answer 5

HILARIOUS. Good points. Thank you for asking. And not staying in a oppressive religious fog of naiveness. There is no god. So no he is not in Hell. For there is no hell either. Hell, God, and the coming of a "son" to claim all good was made up by primitive men in the beginnings of the evolutionary chart. Confused? Ask me for more details. I could go on for weeks. If there was a "Jesus" he was simply a con who used peoples naiveness for his own greater good. How sick huh? Yep. And he's not in our hearts... cuz he's not real. Like I already said.

Answer 6

Hi!

First, let's understand for a second what you mean by heart. You mean your conscious free will to decide your destiny? God isn't there. It isn't a place. It is a choice. That's two different realities.

Secondly, what is hell. Two views on this, the majority believe it is a place that's everlastingly burning. The minority view is it is the lake of fire. This is how Jews and early Christians used to view hell. It is an event going to happen in the future when God comes back. It is an everlasting death, you will be gone forever. God says the wages of sin is death. Meaning you will cease to exist. Hell, taken from Christianity's minority view, is the lake of fire and you are dead eternally. Is God there? Sure. But it hasn't happened yet.

Third, what's the whole point of salvation? I think you might have asked yourself that question. Check this -- God at the beginning of time sets up laws, scientific laws, gravity, etc. He also sets up a basic law of obedience: love God and love your neighbor. Man broke these two laws (the core of the Ten Commandments). All of us break these laws. God has already said if you don't follow these laws you will be put to death. But since He loves His creation, He doesn't want to destroy them. He wants a way to save them. But how? Sacrifice. Executing the consequence but on someone else. But who could be worthy enough to be sacrified for billions of people since the beginning of time? God. So He went to earth, and died for the sins of man.

All He asks now is for you to accept that. That is salvation. He doesn't want you to pull up a list of things so you can be 'Christian'. He just wants you to accept that He died for you and that your sins are forgiven when you ask of it to be.

Fourth, now how about attitudes and following laws and regulations and all this jazz. You have to see God as a friend rather than a cop. Just for an example, if you hang out with friends that smoke all the time, you are influenced to do so yourself and might take up smoking. In the same way, if you hang out with God and people that believe in Him, you will be influenced to live that kind of life. The change is progressive, and to some people instant. But it all starts out with befriending God.

Answer 7

To me the answer is simple. When you ask a question of faith you totally abandon the realm of logic. Therefore, you cannot answer a spiritual question with a logical answer, the two are separate and mutually exclusive. For example, by definition the word "omnipresent" means that one is everywhere at all times and therefore Jesus would be in your heart AND in Hell. However the previous responders mention that you must invite him into your heart and it is NOT in hell; there is an inherent contradiction in that thinking, so they must be kept separate. Mind you, I am not saying that the world of faith is not the proper belief, all I am saying is that if you are going to pose a question of faith in the logical world you CANNOT get an unequivocal answer.

Answer 8

"Accept Jesus in your heart" is a phrase that especially gives Native Americans difficulty because of the literalness of it's sound.

Yes God is everywhere (omnipresent), yet there is also a since in which you and I can reject Him; this is called sin.

Looking at the Hebrew for the 1st commandment, Exodus 20:3, "You shall have no other gods before Me."
This is more literally "no other Gods in my face."

"Jesus in our hearts" is a figure of speech that means that you love him:
Matthew 22:37
And He said to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' "

Second: Is God present in Hell?
Yes.
Matthew 10:28
"Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
This refers not to Satan but to God. Satan cannot destroy the soul, only God can.
Hell was made for Satan:
Matthew 25:41
"Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;' "
God NEVER intended for people to go to Hell, but it is the garbage heap of the universe; what else is He to do with those who have rejected Him and refused His wise council for ever?

Answer 9

1. Yes, God is omnipresent but he has given us freewill. Thus, we must choose to accept him or not. It doesn't mean he isn't there, it simply means we don't want him to be.
2. The greek words used for 'hell' mean 'the grave.' The place of punishment does not exist yet. According to the Bible, that is when the earth is consumed by fire with the wicked. God will be there because he will be the one delivering the fire.

Answer 10

We have to accept Jesus in our hearts because we have a sin nature. God does not have a sin nature and therefore can't look upon sin. He sent Jesus to this earth as a sacrifice for our sins so that if we except Him we will have eternal life in Heaven. At this point in the history of earth Satan has control of the earth and if we don't except Christ we will spend an eternity in hell which Satan is in control of and eventually will spend all of eternity there.