It's an amazing and peculiar thing about you non-believers. When the possibilty of your eternity in the lake of fire enters your mind, all of a sudden God should be a "loving" God to you no matter how much you despise Him now. Any other time He's nothing but a punch-line for you to throw around with your friends at some party. If I were God and you treated me like that and then died, I'd take great pleasure in throwing your sorry, worthless *** into the lake of fire as fas as I could.
2007-04-22 03:28:15
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answer #1
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answered by vox populi 3
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First off it was us (early Christians) who wrote the bible and so what you read is what a human interprets what will happen. The best they could come up for somewhere so horrible was a description about a lake of brimstone. It's really only a symbol of a place where God does not exist.
The way I see it is **you** have to make a decision, accept a higher power ask for forgiveness and follow the Christian ideals. As for what will happen when you are brought to judgment, the ultimate destination is really two places, "God" and "UnGod" and it's what you do with your life that makes the difference.
2007-04-22 03:38:46
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answered by erg322 4
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2016-10-13 04:39:10
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answered by ? 4
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God does not torment people forever in hell. Revelation 21:8 is not talking about hell. Compare with Revelation 20:14: "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death."
The lake of fire is not hell if hell is "cast into" the lake of fire. And "death" is not something that can be literally cast anywhere. Revelation is a book of signs and symbols. Much of it was not meant to be understood literally.
Note that the lake of fire is called "the second DEATH." It is a symbol of complete extinction, as if being totally burned up by fire. It is not a symbol of eternal torment, for what is completely burned up cannot be tormented.
The lake of fire is a symbol of eternal death from which there is no resurrection. It is a symbol of complete annihilation, but it is not about the eternal torment of conscious souls in Hell.
God is just. God is love. God is not a monster.
2007-04-22 03:41:44
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answered by בַר אֱנָשׁ (bar_enosh) 6
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God's not going to send any one to hell just yet.*** Hence, people do not go to heaven or hell upon death. They lay in the grave and wait for the resurrection. This is the whole purpose of the resurrection***. After Christ's return there will be a 1,000 year period in which all people, who have not fully understood (or who were taught incorrectly) the ways of God, will have a chance to learn from Christ himself the ways of true Christianity.
After learning his ways and how he intended the world to work out (without the devil's evil sway) then we will be given the choice if we want to live under his ruling government or the old way (how the world is today--under the devil's rule)
2007-04-22 03:31:16
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answered by Me 6
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1) No one is going to end up in Hell and say, I never had a chance not to be here.
2) If the human spirit is already immortal, where will you place it after the person says, I don't want anything to do with God? ...Or are you saying I like your universe and your life sustaining powers, but I don't like you? Maybe you just take too much for granted; the universe and your healthy body and sane mind.
3) Isn't it similar to other things in life like, work or starve, study or fail, exercise or get weak, live healthy or die young, spend wisely or live poor, respect the law or go to jail, etc. You can see these LAWS can't you and you do what is necessary or you pay the consequences.
2007-04-22 03:38:59
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answered by ignoramus_the_great 7
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He didn't write that rule. God’s desire is that all be saved and He has made this possible for all men, God cannot bear the blame for people going to hell. People go to hell because they knowingly choose to reject His love. To quote C. S. Lewis, “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ ”
Romans 1 states that all have had an opportunity to respond to God’s invitation and are therefore without excuse. Human beings are created in God’s image and are creatures of incredible value. God does not annihilate beings of value even though they rejected His love. Instead He respects their decision, honors their dignity, and allows them to dwell eternally apart from Him as they have chosen.
I would say that I don't insist that hell is a lake of fire. The opening verses of Revelation 21 suggest another image of final judgment.
"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Verses 3-4 tells what will truly make it new. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
Would it not be hell to know that the dwelling of God is with men and to know that you can't have it? Hell may or may not be a lake of fire, but being excluded from the presence of God forever expresses very well the torment of losing permanently life's greatest prize.
2007-04-22 03:36:32
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answered by thundercatt9 7
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This is how I see it. God did not write the way to hell. It is us writing our destiny to hell by doing wicked and foolish things. Now God sees this and said thru his messengers, hey if you continue doing what you do you'll go to hell. Then foolish people started saying, you see? This God is driving us to hell. Supposing God wrote an unbreakable law. The same foolish people would say, you see? This God is a dictator.
2007-04-22 03:33:28
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answered by PabloSolutin 4
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but this is all human logic that doesnt apply to the god_0, trust me he wont throw people in burning waters, if god_0 writes a rule he knows thie rule is temporary , rules are there for being broken , cause what other purpose could a rule have than that ? god_0 could havbe make you in such a way that you never could break some rule, that was easier for him, but no he didnt do that, he choose the difficult way , he made fences, the rules, that you are allowed to pass, why putting a fence for a dog if you can also chain the dog ? right ? fences rules are there for making the human curious
2007-04-22 03:31:15
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answered by gjmb1960 7
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In any organization, there is what you call the rules and regulation and code of ethics, so with the government there is a law that must be followed and imposes punishment of not obeying it, do you agree?
In the creation of God, he have enacted a law to be followed or supposed to obey by Adam and Eve and there is punishment in not obeying him, yet Adam and Eve disobeyed him, so there was punishment.. He then let the mankind to spread the whole earth, but mankind have forgotten God and did what they wanted to do without obeying God, so punishment was done at the time of Noah. Again mankind were spread by God throughout the earth, they have forgotten again God, so he made Moses as God of Israel to give his commandments for the sinners but the same . Mankind do not love God and have forgotten him, so he have destroyed Israel, Jerusalem and everything.
He let the mankind spread again all over the earth but mankind insist to continue in not respecting and obeying God. He sent Jesus to earth to be born as man, to grow as man and to teach as man but mankind did not believe him instead nailed him to the cross which caused his death, however, because He is the Son of God, He rose from the dead and ascended to Heaven with God but mankind still continue to commit sin against God, so that he have decided to end the world or earth so that mankind will stop in disobeying him but the more mankind do not believe him (the atheist) and even cursing him and that is his decision now , to end the earth. He will send back Jesus to earth to judge mankind when judgment will come. Sinners will be brought to hell as punishment to suffer in the lake of fire eternally while non sinners will go to heaven with God to enjoy life eternally with God. and you knoiw who will to go hell for punishment.
Why do you teach God on imposing punishment to his people. Do you think you are more intelligent than God?
who are you to question our God. You will die soon and return to the dust but God is eternal and no beginning.
Can you not understand punishment.?Why don't you accept punishment? and be rebelious on it. Ssubject yur self to obey role of law., either law of mankind or law of God.
jtm
2007-04-22 03:52:11
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answered by Jesus M 7
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