Many people stated that they would be willing to give up heaven in order to comfort a loved one in hell (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmRuPmNv9wYaVl6pVPGP3Sfd7BR.?qid=20070527175732AAoPVPH&r=w&cp=2&tp=2&tnu=44#all-answers ).
Same hypothetical situation, different hypothetical question: God cannot allow you to go to hell to be with your spouse since you have not commited sin and God is all about balance. Besides, it wouldn't help anyway because your spouse would still be alone and tortured, as that is the nature of hell.
HOWEVER, God is all about trades - Jesus was able to take our sin upon him and God is willing to make a similar trade in this situation. SOMEONE has to go to hell - but it doesn't have to be your spouse.
Would you trade places with your spouse, giving up heaven and taking on hell, even knowing that you will be alone and tortured for eternity?
There are no other choices, no "both" or "neither". One of you gets hell. Which one?
2007-05-27 14:47:38 · 23 answers · asked by Aeryn Whitley 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How am I baiting? I find these mental experiences stimulating. If you don't like them, you don't have to answer them.
And, yeah, it doesn't "work that way". I realize that - that's why it's a hypothetical question. If it DID work that way, it'd just be a question.
2007-05-27 14:53:49 · update #1
These questions are getting to the point that I would look God directly in the eye and tell him to go to hell. If someone just *has* to be there, better it should be the one who created it. Don't you agree?
2007-05-27 14:51:14 · answer #1 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 6⤊ 3⤋
And this is why you won't ever get to be God. It doesn't work that way. And since God is God, He can pretty much change the rules when He chooses.
But the answer is simple: if you truly love your spouse, you go to hell. That is the nature of unselfish love.
That's the whole point of my answer Smart Girl, since He can do as He chooses there is no point in posing hypotheticals. But you asked for answers and that's kinda what we're all doing at YA.
2007-05-27 14:54:17 · answer #2 · answered by maisie 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You obviously have never seen my girlfriend's amazingly beautiful smile.
This is an easy choice. An eternity of horrible torture is an easy price to pay to see the beauty my girlfriend's smile. Of course I'd pick hell. Anything to see her happy.
The only problem is, I know she feels the same. So, then I'm going to hell, she'll start a huge fight with this God dude, because she wants to join me.
This could possibly be the start of the Revolution against God. Finally, it's really needed that we, as humanity, start to stand up against this Holy Dude with His immoral useless rules.
2007-05-27 14:57:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I would not trade places with my wife, I love her but
the choice between Heaven and Hell are hers to make
not mine.
Fortunately my wife has a better shot that I do of making it
to Heaven, I always worry if I am good enough to get there,
hopefully I am.
2007-05-27 16:02:20 · answer #4 · answered by justgetitright 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suddenly, I'm laughing at all this. Here we are in this revolving door. Paradise or Eternal damnation arguing about who's going where.
Here's what I'm getting from this line of questions. Heaven really has just been proven alittle less than paradise,...unless your knocked unconcious and don't remember anything about your life....
So, life and heaven don't mix?
2007-05-27 16:10:26 · answer #5 · answered by shakalahar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are asking the wrong question.
Your spouse would have chosen hell.
Hell is separation from God. God gives a person every chance to accept Him. He desires that none should perish. But you have to choose to be with Him. If your spouse goes to hell, it's because it was their choice to be separated from God and not acknowledge Him for who He is.
(and, God is not all about trades like you said. Jesus came to atone because no one else was worthy to atone for us but God Himself. It's finished and done and that's the end of it - we can't add to it.)
2007-05-27 14:54:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You need to read one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, "JOB: A Comedy of Justice." It's Heinlein's retelling of the Book of Job and it's a sidesplitter. I think it's still available in paperback.
2007-05-27 14:54:47 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'd still choose to keep my place in heaven, as I hope my husband would choose to do. Although the prospect can be saddening, we are both accountable for the choices we make, and we are both bound to our own accountability, even it it keeps us apart in the afterlife.
2007-05-27 15:37:28 · answer #8 · answered by jenn_in_spokane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your spouse would stay in hell because he did not receive Jesus as his personal savior and I don't practice extreme Mormonism to where he can be saved after death so he would have to stay in hell eternally. That sounds harsh, but he every opportunity to do so when he was alive, so why allow him to take the easy way out?.
2007-05-27 14:58:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Your interpretation of the Scriptures is in error. You say that some have not committed sin. But all have committed sin. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". Romans 3:23. God isn't all about balance. God is all about justice and mercy. People aren't tortured in Hell, they are tormented. God prepared Hell for the devil and his angels. Not humans. But many humans refuse to believe Jesus is the Son of God (making himself equal with God). All people deserve Hell (justice) but those who repent of their sins and trust Jesus to save them (mercy) receive eternal life (Heaven).
So please repent and trust. Amen.
2007-05-27 14:53:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋