Is It God or the Devil?
2007-03-22 16:06:30 · 21 answers · asked by sokrates 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Izen
Someone still has to administer punishment, even if bad people stored it up during their individual lifetimes.
2007-03-22 20:26:01 · update #1
No one is ever alone and there is no such place as hell, there is a state of being i suppose that could be likened to the descriptions given, but no place and no torture. Where is punishment in the natural world. Nowhere but in human endeavors, we have created a god in our image, sadly.
2007-03-22 18:36:19 · answer #1 · answered by darkstar 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nobody punishes them. Being in hell is the punishment and even that isn't really a punishment. It's a choice made by the person to deny God a relationship with that person. Dying and not living forever with God is the punishment.
2007-03-22 16:13:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who told you they get punished in hell? Hell is just like Heaven, only it caters to what the bad guys want. They're probably breathing alcohol and smoking weed in front of the tv all eternity long down there. There's gotta be some fairness even in the world of the divine...
2007-03-22 16:35:00 · answer #3 · answered by Mafia Agent 4207 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Devil rules over Hell,and the choices you make in life put you there. God doesn't punish anyone...He gives you enough rope to hang yourself. So therefore, you punish yourself.
2007-03-22 16:17:40 · answer #4 · answered by buckskinbabydoll♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell is the ultimate separation of the soul from peace. love and God. If Hell were about fire and brimstone, that would only go as far as torturing the physical, but Hell is the torment of the soul. What could be more torturous than to never know love; to never experience peace and to separated from God. It is an absolute void. You are alone for eternity.
2007-03-22 16:54:23 · answer #5 · answered by Stephanie D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people don't want to believe that God sentences people to "eternal fire" for rejecting him. But this is clearly taught in Scripture (The Bible). Sinners who don't seek forgiveness from God will face eternal separation from him (and that is being thrown into Hell). In Jude 1:7, he gave this warning to all who rebel against, ignore and reject God. (NIV commentary on Jude 1:7)
Hell is a place of eternal death, a place of eternal punishment.
"But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows. " Luke 12:5-7
2007-03-22 17:27:53 · answer #6 · answered by StarbucksAficionado 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in my view, human beings deliver themselves to a state of hell. people who reject God and refuse to love Him actively distance themselves from Him. Rejection of God for sure begets torment as God is existence and Love. Sin is that distancing. If God replaced into to make each physique persist with Him and Love Him, that love might haven't any meaning. Love demands selection. human beings could be robots. Quoted from the question: "shouldn't 'He' admire all the strategies we make and our comments instead of punishing us for doing some thing we necessary to?" There are 2 replies to this: He does admire all the strategies we make. He helps us to lead them to, in spite of the implications. -additionally- this concept is reminiscent of ethical relativism, which basically negates the opportunity of absolute certainty. If all (which for that reason includes many contradictory recommendations and movements) issues are taken as the two valid, not something is properly real and valid. 2 is under 3; there won't be able to be 3 is under 2 on the comparable time on an identical time as nevertheless having the two mean something. God is absolute certainty; as a result, this concept is fake. one extra ingredient: Ascribing to this concept might mean that one might desire to admire God's alternatives, ultimate? shouldn't we do admire God's alternatives via living the way He made us to stay? i wish you come across a solid answer for this concern. +God Bless
2016-10-19 09:38:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe Hell is the absence of God ~~~ therefore their own life punished them.
2007-03-22 16:16:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither one. Any punishment due or given is stored up during our lives, we each create it ourselves throughout our life.
2007-03-22 19:28:39 · answer #9 · answered by Izen G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Devil does, with his bull whip - Ftshhhhhh!
All the while God sits up there in his lounge cloud polishing his rings and picking lint off his linens.
2007-03-22 18:44:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋