'obey me or I will grill you FOREVER', where is the love from God?

Answer 1

Jesus would agree with you 100%!

The god of the old testament and frequently quoted by christians is an evil god, a god that kills women and children, a god that deliberately manufactures disasters and famine, a god that seems to have a blood lust.

And any person who has actually read the Old Testament knows that any other answer is simply untrue.

+++How could the God of the Universe be so cruel and blood thirsty?+++

So the question then is how could the god of the Old Testament, the "jealous god", the "vengeful god" YHWH be so cruel and so petty?

How could a deity capable of creating all galaxies, all planets and all life seem at once to have such character faults?

+++What did Jesus think?+++

Jesus asked exactly the same questions and in fact provided specific answers.

Jesus founded the Nazarenes, also known as the gnostics.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/nazarenes/nazarenes_0010.htm

Jesus believed the god of the old testament was not god, but satan, the ultimate deceiver pretending to be god.

This of course makes perfect sense, for any god that commands its followers to kill, has to be twisted and evil.

However, the Sadducee High Priests with Paul of Tarsus created the parasite religion called christianity to deceive even those who thought they follow Jesus.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/founders_christianity/founders_christianity_0000.htm

So which god do you think the Vatican worships? The universe, or the "jealous god" of the Old Testament??

Answer 2

This is another misconception that has gotten way too much publicity! The whole idea of "burning forever" is so bogus.
The Bible does not support this view...what it says is, those who reject the loving advances of God and not appropriate the forgiveness provided, will experience everlasting punishMENT not punishING. PunishMENT means the EFFECTS are eternal without the ACT being eternal.

The Bible also says that "the wages of sin are DEATH, but the gift of God is eternal LIFE." Now, if a person burns forever with the knowledge it is going on, this is eternal life...not a pleasant eternal life, but eternal life all the same.

God's love has provided a "fire escape plan" in the Person of Jesus. When God became a man, this death was sufficient to fulfill the demands of a broken law/relationship.

Peace.

Answer 3

The statement might be slightly heavy, but i do get your point. First, God has set out certain values and principles in the Biblical Texts. These are the Ten Commandments that were originally given to Moses for the Hebrew Peoples coming into Canaan. God himself spoke on many issues in the New Testiment on living a good life that is pleasing to him.

What needs to be emphasised is the fact that the principles that God has laid down are not negociable. Im sorry. Its not an open ended option. You have the choice of either accepting it or leaving it. The important thing to remember is this that God himself wants every human being to have a knowledge and understanding of him. He wants us to come closer to him by spending time reading the Bible and attending church. He wants us to do good to others and to attend to the poor, give of what we have for others, etc.

Gods love was demonstrated when Christ died on the cross and this bridged the gap that seperated us from God due to the potential of mans evil and bad ways. Everyone is born into this world this way, but when we accept Christ (GOD) its then that our life has a spiritual begining with him. There is no bargaining with God, because God himself has set his principles in the way he wants it. Thats the nature of God, and he has done this for own good. The Ten Commandments being one example teaches us to not steal, lie, or murder and many more. They are there for own good. Not for Gods.

So the real question is do you want to accept God into your heart or do you want to continue not believing him. There is no better way to put it and i would encourage you to pick up a Bible and to start understanding the very nature of who God is.

Answer 4

Hello and lets get this forever word out of the way, in Revelation 20:6 and 21:8 we understand it speaking of The Second "DEATH" you see the "EFFECTS" of Hell are forever NOT the Fire itself in Jude 7 it says eternal fire describing Sodom and Gomorrha but its not burning today but the "effects"are forever in Jonah 2:6 Jonah said he was there "Forever" but it was only three days but it must have seamed forever now God in John 3:16 "IS" love and in John14:15 "IF" you love me [then] keep my commandments [not suggestions] now God is the God of Love but of Justice if we do not accpept the conditions upon which life is offered then God's Justice is all thats left, find out more free bible lessons www.amazingfacts.org talk to me email NOT messanger [e-mail] God bless

Answer 5

If I said same thing to my children

"Obey me or I will grill you forever"

they know how to call Police.

Answer 6

Actually it's more like, if you love God then you can come and spend eternity with him in heaven but if you don't then you wouldn't want to spend eternity with God so you can spend eternity without him. But without God there is no good, only evilness, pain and suffering aka hell. And you say where is the love from God, well he died for us, i think that shows that he loves us.

Answer 7

Here are a couple of quotes about God as Love from C. S. Lewis that I really like:

"He [God] has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. .... Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved; ... mere "kindness" which tolerates anything except suffering in its object is, in that respect, at the opposite pole from Love."

"You ask for a loving God; you have one ... not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, not the cold philanthropy of a conscientious magistrate, not the care of a host who feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the CONSUMING FIRE HIMSELF, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes..."

"The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."

I like to think of it this way. The only way a person will go to hell is if they want to.

God in His (or Her) unlimited love has given us free will to choose. Our most important choice is to freely decide to accept or reject God's constant offer of spending eternity with Him in heaven. God will respect the choice to reject Him.

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

Choose the right lady and have a family and you shall see the love the Lord has for you.

Answer 9

If that is the basis upon which YOUR God wishes to deal with you, you may wish to come to know MY God.
He deals on the basis of love.
There is no hell-fire in His system.
He doesn't even force obedience.
He simply invites ....on the basis of love

Answer 10

The only biblical reference to hell is "eternal separation from God". All of the rest is just fantasy.