Christians, do you actually believe that anyone deserves to be tortured for eternity?

Question

If you believe that anyone deserves this, you are digusting to me. I dont care who they are or what they did, murder rape theft, i dont care, no one deserves eternal suffering.

can you justify why anyone would deserve that?

You guys dont agree with your own God? he certainly thinks under certain circumstances, people do in fact deserve Hell, many cicumstances in fact. Like living a life of sin, which encompasses many things, under those cicumstances, your god believes people deserve to burn in Hell, why dont you agree with him?

Answer 1

That is like a blind man asking, do you really believe people can see? Ooh that is disgusting to me!

If you could see then you would know.

Glorying in ignorance and your own blindness and then being judgmental, that, much rather, is disgusting.

Yet God's love still offers you deliverance. He suffered hell in your place to offer you escape from it and yet you want to spite that?
The only possible way out for you was for Him to suffer in His infinite Nature the infinite suffering that would otherwise come upon you. Such amazing and wonderful love! And then for you to trample on His sufferings of hell and slight it? To condemn Him to the sufferings of hell on your behalf and then treat it so lightly?

What does that make you? What would justice require?
To be treated as you have treated?

Answer 2

I struggled with this question for awhile.

Like.. why not just kill me permanently, you gotta burn me for eternity?

In the same way Death is the ultimate punisment for this life... Eternal damnation is the punisment for he who experiences the fullness of the holy spirit, and then rebels upon it.

It would be a disgrace equal to having Christ Crucified a second time.

I leave the big decisions to G-d. As a matter of fact, I leave any decision to G-d. You ask me what I believe about eternal punishment? I differ that question and give it to G-d almighty. He can decide, for he knows much more than me, or you... and infinite amount more than the smartest genius here on earth.

Answer 3

Yep, I want to see people burn in hell because I am sadistic...Oh now come on NO ONE wants to see people burn in Hell and I doubt anyone really thinks someone deserves to go to hell.....However, you don't have to suffer eternally all you have to do is accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and you have chosen eternal life. Its really not about who deserves to go and who doesn't--if it were based on that I would be going to hell...It is about choosing to go or not to go by accepting Jesus....However, chances are that assuming the nature of this question you don't believe in Heaven or Hell anyway so why ask? Its not up to me to convince you, because now you know the truth and its up to you to choose. Free Will is a beautiful thing.

Answer 4

it not up to Christians, its up to God. i think that is an incredible long time though. and the same goes for heaven. do we deserve eternity in eternal bliss? no not really. but that is all up to God. God has laid down the rules and laws, you choose what you want. God wont force anyone be with him forever that wants nothing to do with him here now.

Answer 5

It is not our place to justify it. It is not our place to question God. Whether or not I disgust you is of no concern to me. It is because we do not wish for anyone to suffer this punishment that we witness to others and try to point them toward repentance. But we are cursed by men, even for this. We are told that we are being judgemental, we think that our way is the only way, etc., etc., etc.
Well, the Bible says that Jesus IS the only way. But the choice belongs to the individual, nevertheless.

Answer 6

okay. don't like me. you're not the first.

personally, I think Hitler deserves it. it's bad enough he hated, but he's responsible for the malicious killing of 11 million people. without repentance, without remorse. he caused the emotional, physical, and psychological torture of 11 million. he had a thirst for innocent blood. there's something just throat-tightening about the shed innocent blood. the children, the many children, who will never laugh, never sleep, never feel the joys of life. who may never get to see the Lord. he ended their lives. that seems like a reason to deserve torture to me.

Answer 7

no one is being tortured by any one in hell. the torture,as you call it, is the result of being separated from God. hell was not created for humans but for the person called satan and his followers who committed the rebellion in heaven. the decision to join forces with these creatures is a clear cut one you choose to make. forgiveness is for all, all, all. the pain and suffering that is in hell exist because of the absence of God. it is the exact opposite of the joy that exist in heaven. when you choose, please choose wisely

Answer 8

No. This belief is UNSCRIPTURAL, MAN-MADE and founded on ancient Babylonian and Assyrian religious doctrines that pictures a "netherworld inhabited and presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness. where the unrighteous is subjected to terrifying and horrible punishments in return for the wrongs they committed while they were yet living." Early aspects of Christendom's hell is found in the religion of ancient Egypt. Depictions of Hell portrayed in Catholic churches in Italy have been traced to Etruscan roots*. Such teachings were incorporated into christian teachings by Roman emperors ( especially by Constantine in the 2nd Century LONG AFTER THE APOSTLES HAVE DIED), the APOSTASY the apostles warned the early christians of. What would you think of a parent who held his child's hand over a fire to punish the child for wrongdoing? Would God do what no right-minded human parent would do? Certainly not, for "God is love" (1 John 4:8)Hellfire is an innovation of the Catholic religion carried over to the Protestant religions in order to reign in dissident followers and to exact devotion from them. Also, it proved to be a lucrative source of income in as much as sinful but wealthy parishioners are given an option to save their souls from hellfire through the purchase of "indulgences" which is supposed to lessen if not completely absolve their stay in purgatory...a place between heaven and hell where bad but not really bad people are to burn for sometime (as a cleansing action) before they are allowed to enter the gates of heaven..
Also, this belief is predicated on the survival of the soul long after the body have died, again UNSCRIPTURAL Eccl 9:5,10 "The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all...All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowldege nor wisdom in the grave , the place to which you are going." Also Ps 146:4 "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish." And finally, Gen 3:19 " In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return."
What happens then to the righteous ones who harbors hope of salvation? After Armageddon, those who have died will be resurrected by Jehovah God through his son Jesus Christ. John 5:28,29 "All those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment." The righteous ones will inherit the earth living forever in a paradise earth. The unrighteous will grow old and die a second death from which there will be no second resurrection....imagine their torment upon seeing a paradise earth that they will soon depart from as they grow old, wither away and die.

Answer 9

so are you saying that people like John Wayne Gacy who rape and murder 31 young men doesn't deserve to rot in hell? Are you saying that Hitler who ordered the deaths of ten million jews, christians, gays, polish, russian, etc, doesnt deserve to be in hell? What are you? An another christian basher

Answer 10

The torture is not designed but created by the choices a person makes. If a person chooses not to believe in God and follow Him, God will honor that choice and that individual will be separated from God. The torture comes because before separation that individual will stand before God and see exactly what he/she rejected. Eternity knowing what you chose and lost is why Jesus called it "outer darkness where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth."