Lets assume for a minute that the following two premises are true.
1. God is omnibenevolent, this would mean that it is his up most will to eliminate suffering and harm other people are bearing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibenevolence
2. God is all powerful. Omnipotent in other words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibenevolence
He therefor has the ability(#2) to stop people from suffering (in Hell), and he wants them to not be suffering (#1).
According Christians, people are in Hell, quite a lot of people in fact, so regardless of free-will * , either #1 or #2 is wrong, if not both, so which is it?
* If you were burning in hell after you "freely choose" to send your self to it, would you be all that upset if god yanked you out?
2007-07-09 20:13:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because His Son gave His life for them, and they denied and rejected Him and His sacrifice. (They called lies truth, and truth lies. Rebellion. Pride.)
Why would God "yank them out?" He doesn't exist for them. So He couldn't have sent them to hell. They sent themselves.
2007-07-09 22:01:51 · answer #1 · answered by beano™ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe in god and i think that we have enough proof to say Jesus was the Messiah. But i don't believe in heaven or hell. I think when your died your just dead. And i don't know if i would want to live for an eternity. But if I'm wrong and there is a heaven and there is a hell. I think the people in hell get a second chance after spending some time there, and basically reincarnate and get a second chance. They wont remember what happened in hell, they will just be a better person. I know that sounded pretty stupid. But simply put, if there is a hell then i dont think those people are going to be there forever. And i'm not from India.
2007-07-10 03:26:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think that the Bible teaches that God is omnibenevolent as you have defined it. God wills that all would be saved by the free gift of grace offered to us by faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, but it appears that He is unwilling to force this upon anyone.
I do not think that the Bible teaches that God is omnipotent in the way that you have defined it either. It teaches that He is completely able to bring about His purposes, not what we think His purposes ought to be.
There are differences between the actual God of the Bible and our hypothetical & humanistic notions of what God ought to be according to the wisdom of our minds. I think that you have defined the terms the way that you see fit, which, from a human point of view, is understandable, but that is not the way that God defines these terms for Himself.
2007-07-10 03:27:56 · answer #3 · answered by Scott 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point is, God does not force anyone to spend eternity in his presence. Those who choose to reject God will not have God forced on them in the afterlife.
Read CS Lewis's book "The Great Divorce" for a very interesting perspective on hell and heaven and people's choices and perspectives on where they are and what they choose.
2007-07-10 03:19:40 · answer #4 · answered by sharky 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is also just. People are suffering in Hell because they did not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Jesus is the only way to God. God made Heaven for Satan and his angels...not for us, but we must chose Jesus in order to be spared from Hell. Where did you get the term omnibenevolent anyway? I don't ever remember hearing or seeing that in the Bible. People really try to twist things around to deceive Christians. There is no way anyone in Hell would be upset to get out...read "23 minutes in Hell".
Satan really hates people like you, but he loves your work.
2007-07-10 03:23:51 · answer #5 · answered by druman2b4u 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God isn't all powerful and all good in a way, those are just terms to express that God is something beyond us. God cannot do absolutely anything, because God cannot make something greater then Him.
God is just, and God is graceful.
2007-07-10 03:19:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ppl go to hell becaus ethey choose to go there...GOD gives the choice of Salvation thru belief in Him which will lead to eternity of peace....ppl who go to hell reject God's offer meaningt hey don't want to be with God....so they Go somehwre that God isn't....its a perfect picture of free will...besides there is a common misconception that hell involves physical pain and burning in a lake of fire....howver looking at the bible in context...the suffering comes from the conscience where all the wrongs that ppl have commited that haven't been covered by God's grace because they chose not to let HIm, will begin to condemn them..in heaven no such thing will happen because all believers in the true God will have their Wrongs covered and neither God nor they will rememebr them...
2007-07-10 03:23:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The fact that no one can answer that question without bringing up the flawed argument of free will is one of the reasons I'm now a Humanist.
2007-07-10 03:31:16 · answer #8 · answered by The Doctor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, since we jews don't believe in the whole concept of hell, i find this a moot point. we believe in a set period of time, usually 11 months, in which the soul of the departed is purified, after which they leave, and go to 'heaven' (not the term we use, but this is your equivalent to the concept.)
we don't believe in an unreasonable g-d who punishes beyond what is necessary.
2007-07-10 03:34:02 · answer #9 · answered by tuxey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he gave us free will. I don;t see why you don;t get it. We can do what we want but we have to suffer for it. Just because you are too lazy to pray and do what's rigth deosn't mean you should blame God for the fact you're probly going to hell. He can't take people out of Heaven either but of course that isn;t a factor.
2007-07-10 03:18:28 · answer #10 · answered by addict for dramatic 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋