Whoever says "you send yourself to hell" has to paint my deck.
2007-07-24 04:47:01 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
exactly, is god is so caring, and understanding, and forgiving, why even create such a place? shouldn't all people, regardless of the past "sins" be allowed in "heaven"? isn't that what absolution is all about? you can drown kittens your whole life and all you have to do is say you're sorry, and PRESTO....you are through the pearly gates...
2007-07-24 04:54:06 · answer #1 · answered by Ryan P 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
How come other people ARE NOT going to hell. They are not smarter than you are or favoured more...they had the same choices you have. God desires ALL Men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the Truth. SO i guess i need to go get those brushes and paint and meet you at your deck then...
maybe while i paint you can sit back and i'll share the Gospel of God's complete salvation with you. Who knows.. maybe you'd really love the sharing from the Word.
take care
sandy
2007-07-24 12:02:08 · answer #2 · answered by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would you like to know what hell really is, based on the Bible? Seriously, if I believed in half of what most Christians teach about hell, I wouldn't want to serve God either. A God who would send someone to burn forever and ever is cruel, but, thankfully, that is not what the Bible teaches us about hell, or the nature of God! Check out the link I have to a website in my sources. It is very insightful!
God bless!
2007-07-24 11:55:22 · answer #3 · answered by musicalchik 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question is a bit caustic, but you do have a logical point. Why would God create hell for those who do not choose him, unless this were all a game to him, or we are praying to a schizophrenic?
The answer can only lie in your view of man himself, and whether he has the capability to look to God for salvation. If you say yes, then we're right back to your question. If the answer is no, this makes Man the guilty party, and places him out of fellowship with God, deserving of hell through the original sin of Adam, federally represented by him in our guilt, and fully deserving of condemnation and eternal punishment. Any choice we make now leads us away from God rather than toward him, and so God would be RIGHTEOUS in leaving all of us in our sins. And he would be glorified in his punishment of those who have long since lost fellowship with him. And that's everyone.
So where is the love? Love is choosing some, not all, from before the foundations of the world, and sending His own son to die for those he has chosen. The glory thus goes to him in his selection of us, not ourselves in the selection of him. We are the guilty ones, and God is in charge -- he does not need to beg us to come to him.
2007-07-24 12:14:58 · answer #4 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell is translated from (hebrew) sheol, and (greek) hades. Niether word means a place that only wicked people go, or that people who go there are conscious. The soul is you, and not something that survives death. The dead are spoken of as dead souls.The dead in the Bible are spoken of as being asleep, or unconscious, and these words simply refer to the common grave of mankind. That Hell is a hot place where wicked are tormented for eternity is a teaching of the pagan Greeks.
Jesus also mentioned gehenna, but this is simply death without hope of a resurrection.
If you actually have Bible open it to Romans chapter 6 , there you will find that "the wages of sin is death" not eternal torment. and "those who have died have been aquitted of their sin".
2007-07-25 00:02:48 · answer #5 · answered by a_measured_brush 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell's principal punishment consists of eternal separation from God in whom alone man can have the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.
God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of her faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God, who does not want "any to perish, but all to come to repentance":
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2007-07-24 11:59:01 · answer #6 · answered by Gods child 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did you read the part in the Bible that says WE choose by our lives if we go to HELL or not... .....Locate a Bible study on "Heaven and Hell." series..There is also a good book called "To Hell and Back".... You can also get many of these book with stories about HELL at Amazon.com if you cannot get out to the book stores or libraries....There is also a book out there about a " previous atheist " Doctor who became a believer after going in HELL himself ...Even though he did not believe in ANY of it .... He also experienced first hand patients in the Emergency room go to HELL and come back to life talking all about it.........His book is called "Beyond Deaths Door"Good luck with your research of this subject....
2007-07-24 12:00:44 · answer #7 · answered by Dog Rescuer 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So you mean that Hitler, Stalin, Ted Bundy, the Taliban, pedophiles, serial rapists, murderers and their like get off scott free? That's not (Insert atheist buzzword here) "logical!"
2007-07-24 12:04:54 · answer #8 · answered by Sir Offenzalot 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I can name loads of people who should be in hell...
......hell most of them come out of the USA, there are loads of sicko serial killers there.
2007-07-24 11:55:12 · answer #9 · answered by ~~∞§arah T∞©~~ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if an entity/non-existent creation wishes to send people to a place such as hell, which doesn't exist either, then he/she is welcome to it!
some believe what they see.
others see what they believe.
i dont believe in hell heaven or god, so i i fear none of them.
but in regard to the 'concept', then i agree with you.
blessed be
2007-07-24 11:54:22 · answer #10 · answered by hedgewitch 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋