Christians: Does it really surprise you to find someone who wants to jump in the lake of fire ................

Question

... rather than worship a god whose holy book claims he drowned all humanity, including new borns, infants, toddlers and little kids?

Just visualize the torment of thousands of little kids trying to avoid drowning, and then drowning.

I really don't care what you -think- happened to them -after- they drowned. The act of drowning, and the panic that one feels before drowning is sufficiently cruel and undeserved within this group of humanity that -no- claim to godhood can be recognized as valid.

So if it turns out he's the 'guy' who rules at the end, watch for me. I'll be the one making the perfect swan dive into that lake of yours.

Should you be surprised that anyone with integrity would prefer it so?

No, I reject their religion because -they- claim it is true. Regardless of whether taken literally or metaphorically, it does not describe anything close to what I would be willing to worship.

Answer 1

I'll bring the sunscreen, you bring the sanwiches, oh, and I'll also bring the band-aids!!

See you there!!

Answer 2

Well, even before I became a Christian, that thought wouldn't have been too appealing.

Do you think anyone has suffered more that the Son of God Himself? And for the evil all mankind has done, nothing He did Himself.

To simplify: God created Adam and Eve perfect and sinless. They rebelled and listened to the serpent, thereby sinning--and bringing the curse of sin, including death, to the whole world and also basically handing the world over to satan. Now satan has control. So now-everyone who would ever be born (except Jesus) would be born with that sin curse.
So what does God do? He sends His own Son to redeem every person ever born, from that curse of sin. And when He was tortured and then hung on that cross, He bore the sins of the world on it, and those sins separated Him from His Father. (ie-"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?)
Now the only thing He asks of us is to accept His Son and what He did on the cross for us. (As indivuals, not as a whole.)
So the choice becomes: reject Jesus and remain in sin. Or accept Him, and be freed from the sin of the curse and death. It's so simple, but people make it so hard, and they blame God when it is not God's fault.

Answer 3

He did not. There is no record of what you claim. Take Noah's great grandfather for example....

Genesis 5
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Hebrews 11
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Others were saved in the same way if they were not wicked.

Answer 4

Hello So drowning with fire around and then eternal torment is better?! Where's the intergrity in that? I would rather worship a God of Love than a liar who is going to torment you forever and it will be forever. Your choice but I pray you pick the right one-God. There is alot that I don't understand or agree with also but God is still my first choice. You say you are not concerned with the "after" but you should be because thats when your choices are gone. Be blessed

Answer 5

Yeah, God flooded the world (or at least a large portion of it) and killed thousands. He burned the cities of Soddam and Gammorea to ash. He ordered his chosen people, the Hebrew, to slaughter and butcher thousands more in the Holy Land following the Exodus. Why?

And most of all, he spared NOTHING and NO ONE. Women and Children weren't spared. LIVESTOCK weren't spared. Every last spec of these instances were completely and entirely destroyed. Why?

God's Wrath and Justice is like his Forgiveness. ABSOLUTE. When you have instances of pure evil,of pure unbridalded sin, does God give it a slap on the wrist and let it die down for a while, or does he entirely obliterate it for all eternity? Is a lifetime of Sin punished with another lifetime of repentance, or is it punished with eternal damnation in Hell?

Remember: these societies who were erased were lost only after countless generations of total debauchery and hedonism and of sin of the highest calibur.

Why was God so devoid of mercy to everyone and thing involved?

Same reason God was so merciful as to give them so much time and opportunity to change their ways.

Answer 6

Orion, I am surprised. Yes! Especially when people who get burned in house fires always seem to be trying to escape getting burned, I find it very difficult that one would choose to burn in Eternal Flames. God Bless You and Heal your pain and anger! May peace and Solace find a path to your heart.

Answer 7

Oh brother.

The Flood story did not happen. It was a story with a special lesson, and was never included in the book of Genesis as history.

What's funny about you is that you don't believe in the story, and yet you base your beliefs on the fact that it was historically true.

Answer 8

You act as if life is without pain and suffering all of the time, and we know you know better. The world is not going to be perfect until Christ comes back, and the reason for that isn't because of God... it is because of men. You judge God's actions, and who are you to do that?

Answer 9

nicely in the journey that your like the fig tree that provided Jesus no fruit your going to burn. the thought in the journey that your not on His area your on the different area, there is no center floor. you are able to continuously tell a tree by making use of it rather is fruit a good tree produces good fruit on an identical time as a rotten tree produces rotten fruit. purely like human beings people who attempt to stay good ethical lives produce good fruit on an identical time as people who stay immoral lives produce rotten fruit. The believers are people who obey the regulation of God (His Gospel), the unbelievers are people who disobey the regulation of God (reject His Gospel). there's a distinction between believing in God and believing in the life of God. i think in God.

Answer 10

I'm not reading your *____*____*. I am just answering your remark. People that do want to jump into a Lake of Fire.....surprise me.?......I would never know it by their Actions. God Pity Them.

Answer 11

You are a very sad person. How did you get this angry at God? Your anger drips from a broken heart. I feel your pain. :hugs: