He could have made it anything he wanted....like a place of redemption and learning. Does this desire to inflict never-ending torment, rather than reform, say something about the nature of god?
2007-07-12 04:02:48 · 17 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Apparently god likes to scare and threaten people, as well as stalk them like Santa with a list of every bad thing they've done...
2007-07-12 04:09:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
The Christian God is cruel, ruthless jealous and filled with hate and rage.
Deuteronomy 5:9 For I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. (also Exodus 20:5)
He punishes not only the sinner, but the children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren of the sinner.
Joshua 24:19 "Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins."
God is unforgiving and unloving. Once you piss him off, you are doomed.
Deuteronomy 29:28 "And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day."
2007-07-12 04:09:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
God didn't do that.
People did.
And yes, I think it speaks volumes about the kind of people who would believe in such a place, especially those that drool in gleeful anticipation thinking that they are going to get to watch the torture...
Once again, God never came up with the notion of eternal torture. That is strictly a human idea...and a very nasty one.
2007-07-12 04:16:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Honestly, we know very little about hell. God made us perfect, we turned away. He gave us so many chances to come back to him, yet mankind still spits at his name. He is perfectly holy and perfectly just and can not abide evil. By some uncomprehendable Grace, He saved some, but those that turn away from him can not be let into heaven because being a holy God, and a just God, he can not abide sin. Sinners are turning away from their creator and savior and God. They deserve nothing less. Nobody deserves anything less than complete damnation for all eternity. For some reason, He saved some anyway.
2007-07-12 04:13:57 · answer #4 · answered by Simon 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Reform? Where's the fun in that? God wants some gnashing of teeth and eternal screams of agony.
2007-07-12 04:10:03 · answer #5 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That's why us Christians are such a pain in the butt when it comes to preaching the Gospel. It's important. We are trying to keep people from going there. We know what is at stake.
2007-07-12 05:02:08 · answer #6 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Man lives for how many years on earth? 70-80 years? If he can't get it in that amount of time, why would it be assumed that he would get it in an eternity of "reform school"? Unless your assumption is that somehow man can never make sense of God, in which case the fire is probably where such goofy idiots need to be.
2007-07-12 04:09:23 · answer #7 · answered by RIFF 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Hell was a creation of the church in the middle ages to scare people into doing what they wanted and paying the church so they wouldn't go there.
2007-07-12 04:13:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
In the bible hell is just referred to as a place without God. It's our imaginations that have made it full of hellfire and brimstone.
2007-07-12 04:07:20 · answer #9 · answered by tabby90 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
God didnt create it the christians did
2007-07-12 04:07:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋