Would you be happy to spend eternity in heaven, if others are spending eternity suffering in hell?

Question

Could you live with that..... for ever?

Answer 1

...i would say yes but i consider other so much-so no

Answer 2

It's not about happy. It's joy... which is deeper. And it is rest in knowing that God is a just God. It is all according to His perfect standard. Perhaps you ask, would I be content spending eternity in heaven knowing others are doing the opposite? Discontent is for >now<. Now is when we must be discontent to know people will go to hell...because this is our calling: to storm Hell's gates and bring people back. When we die, we have the purpose of worshipping God eternally - which everyone will do anyway.

Let's see... A place where no ounce of evil can enter? Yup. I can take it.

Answer 3

They think they won't remember any of their family and friends and that people actually deserve such an eternal fate.

Personally, I couldn't do it. I'd despise the guy who created such a place because even if I didn't know who I used to love that isn't there with me, I'd be suspicious that many of my loved ones actually were suffering eternally by the hand of this being that could easily have made things different. If I could, I'd lead the rebellion against such a being, because obviously it does not deserve to have such power and needs to be contained and restrained.

Answer 4

It's hell for alot of people on earth - many of us are more than happy and delighted to stuff ourselves and live in luxury and would even have wars to live that way while many starve to death.. so I really don't think these people would have a problem enjoying heaven while others suffer in hell..after all non is more Forgiving, Merciful and Just than God.. if you want to question this from Him you can but question yourself first maybe.

Answer 5

I will definitely be happy in Heaven. Everyone has a chance, and while I'd love to see everyone there, it was their choice not to give their heart to Jesus. Believe me though, I will try until I die, to help save people. It's not because I want to shove my beliefs down anyones throat, it's because I truly care about people, and I know what God can do for people who simply trust and believe in Him. I'm basically the only believer in my family, and yes it does make me sad to think that they'll go to Hell, but it doesn't have to be that way. If I know that I did my best and did all I could do, then how could it bother me? Maybe it will bother me if they die and I'm still alive, thinking that they may be in Hell is of course upsetting, but once I go to Heaven, everything changes. You can't be sad in Heaven.

Answer 6

No, never. Come on!!! I think a lot of people that I know will go to hell and I care about them It's really cruel to think that I will get my memory erased and forget about my friends or the rest of the people... I think is selfish. Yes, of course going to hell is the other person's fault, but what makes a person good is that, the lack of self interest and charity, which means that I care about the rest of the people

Answer 7

I can be happy that God gave them every chance to repent, yet they refused His gift of salvation. They wanted to spend eternity apart from God's grace and God has graciously granted them their wish. I believe that on the day of judgment, God will reveal to all the justness of His actions in such an undeniable manner that those who thought they had the moral authority to accuse Him will be forced to acknowledge in a Job-like fashion that they spoke of things beyond their understanding.

Answer 8

well when you consider people like hitler and Pat Robinson, then I suppose that is God's the Father's vengeance. God the Father is a vengefull God and God the Son is a merciful one. I'm sure anyone who asks God the Son for mercy will be shown mercy. I don't like the thought of someone spending eternity in hell, but I would never question God. He is all knowing and I'm just a spec in His universe.

Answer 9

Your question explains why Christians try to 'convert' non-Christians.

What is Hell? Demons with pitch-forks and horns and tails? Nonsense. That’s a literary Hell according to John Milton and William Blake.

Hell according to Christ is an eternal absence from the presence of God. Which is similar to Hell in other cultures around the world. Hell is living in the darkness, rather than living in the light.

Most people are walking around in a living Hell and don’t even realize it. (Sort of like how people can walk around with bad breath or bad body odor, and not realize it. You think everything is normal and fine, because you don’t know any better). So, for people who are absent from the presence of God (including some people who think they are religious or spiritual) they are in Hell, and don’t know it.

Of course it’s nearly impossible to explain to someone they are already in a living Hell, just as it’s difficult to explain to someone they have body odor. They can’t tell, so they assume you’re wrong.

Have you seen the movie Field of Dreams? Ray and his wife and daughter and Terrance Mann can all see the baseball players. But her brother and other strangers CAN’T see them.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world, for thousands and thousands of years have all been in contact with the same God. We can all see the baseball players. Just because you can’t see them, doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

People are living in Hell, and they don't even know it.

Answer 10

If there was such a place as Hell and the people sent there deserved to be because of suffering to others, then i wouldn't give a damn.

Answer 11

Hellfire isn't a Bible teaching.

The words often translated Hell are Sheol (Hebrew) and Hades (Greek). They simply mean the grave, where there is no suffering. Jesus even compared death to sleep.