Why would God create something bad for people to go through so much pain, if he loves us all, and doesn't want harm for anyone? im confused and it's hurting my faith!
2007-04-05 01:41:59 · 30 answers · asked by oggie 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The idea of hell is based on the idea of sin and the idea of sin is not real.
The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.
If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.
First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.
How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work 100 percent of the time?
It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.
One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.
Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.
If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.
If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.
How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.
Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.
If this is the case and we are perfect creations of a perfect God then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.
How likely is that????
Think about it.
Love and blessings
don
Source --- Course in miracles
2007-04-05 01:45:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God needed to give the good people spirits a good place so he gave them Heaven. The bad ones he had to keep separate so he gave them Hell.
God doesn't care about your choices here on earth.And you have a choice in many aspects of your life. People cause themselves most of the pain and anguish that they go through.Thats life.You do with it what you want. When it's over you will be rewarded by either one of two invitations. Satan's or God's. (my mistake) . God's or Satan's. I guess God gets first pick. Your faith is a personal event / activity. You should question aspects of the faith but that should not detract from you belief in your faith. You just haven't found the answer yet. Everything takes time.
2007-04-05 02:04:27 · answer #2 · answered by reinformer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you see what America went through on 9/11? That was hell. And I assure you, there is no place called hell anywhere in the universes of God. The doctrine of hell has been invented to keep people in line; whenever members of a religion stray, the ministers bring out the heavy artillery called hell.
God never created us to suffer but to learn, by ourselves, through the choices we make. The idea is that eventually we see through our mistakes to make better choices next time. In the process of learning, some of us go through hell.
As for heaven, the world is made of different layers of heavens or planes, each one much better than the one below. As we rise in our spiritual education, we earn the right to live in a higher heaven. However, you can learn to visit other heavens while you are still living on earth.
2007-04-05 02:06:25 · answer #3 · answered by RAFIU 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He doesn't send people there. They go there when they reject Him so it's their choice because they don't want anything to do with Him.
The scriptures show hell was not created for them, but God won't force them to be with him: "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;(notice the last phrase)
Your thoughts indicate the reason why some say nobody will go to hell because God loves everyone. But just because He loves doesn't mean they will be with Him- because they have to love Him too. He won't force them to.
2007-04-05 01:49:03 · answer #4 · answered by get_unlost 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know, being an atheist, it always hurts me so much when I see people who are struggling with "right and wrong" and supposedly punishments and rewards that god is said to give to people. This is all just a myth from the stone-age. Hell and heaven are made up by humans and are used to mass control the people though fear. Please don't let yourself being made into a paranoid by all kinds of Jesus freaks. I think, that if you don't do the things you don't want other to do to you, and you do things to others that you would like them to do to you, your (after-) life will be fine.
2007-04-05 01:54:56 · answer #5 · answered by Caveman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are humans created with a free will. With that privilege come love and hate, good and evil and so on. That's why there is a hell. God lets us chose where we want to spent eternity. He isn't a puppeteer who controls robots. When you go to a restaurant you pick what you want to eat. Wouldn't be much fun if we were told what to eat. Same here. Yes, hell sounds scary and it is. Heaven is beautiful and it is. Chose.
2007-04-05 01:48:16 · answer #6 · answered by VW 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody truly knows anything until after they die. It doesn't matter what the bible says, it's a book written by man.
Find what feels true to YOUR heart and stick with that....if you want to live life with fear, guilt, sin, fire, hell and damnation then read, memorize, study and believe in the bible.
Again, what seems to be your problem is you are putting to much emphasis on what the Bible says and only the Bible. Spirituality is a lifelong search if you choose for it to be, which in no way can be defined by one book.
I suggest not to try and sum up your beliefs from one book or by receiving answers off of yahoo.
2007-04-05 02:14:12 · answer #7 · answered by Little Britches 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is real, but it was not created for us. It was created for the devil and his agels. Whether or not we go there is our choice. The way has been made for us to go to heave and spend an eternity of joyful bliss with our Creator through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. Accept his payment for our wrong doing and go to heaven. Reject Him and choose hell by default.
Notice that when we receive Jesus it makes a radical difference in the way we live our lives. (See the passage surrounding the reference in Matt.)
2007-04-05 02:44:25 · answer #8 · answered by Rickster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My hunch is that by creating something God chooses to take up residence in such created realm. Hell can be there where God is not present (and we get previews of it every single day. Hell!)
2007-04-05 01:46:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't forget that religions are a man-made construct. If you were creating a religion, what would your penalty be for not believing or acting in a certain way. At the time this particular god was created, the writers didn't have a behavioral concept of a masochist.
2007-04-05 01:44:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋