How many of you Christians get some kind of pleasure or enjoyment from the belief that people who argue with you about religion or disagree with your religious beliefs will someday burn in and and know that you were right?
PLEASE, if you are a Christian and this is not you, I do not care to hear from you this time. I am only interested in hearing from the Christians who get some type of amusement from the idea of people who oppose them burning in hell.
2007-08-09 10:22:16 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
PastorArt1974, get used to it. Life is offensive.
2007-08-09 10:29:09 · update #1
ImJstBob, yes I do have some thoughts. Though you may have good intentions when you witness, there are MANY people (Christians or not) who are more interested in being right and having people admit they are right. Even some Christians who start out with good intentions get caught up in the argument and lose focus on their point(s). They end up hating the person who disagres with them and wishing hell upon them. Why ask such a sadistic question? Well, many people are sadistic. Honestly, it seems to me that the relationship between Christians and their god is very sado-masochistic. If God created hell, and if he is the only one with the power to send people there (Christians say people send themselves, but God made the rules, didn't he?), it seems as though God is quite sadistic himself. It only makes sense to ask a sadistic question to a group of people who worship a sadistic god.
2007-08-09 10:35:30 · update #2
I don't get pleasure from it...but I often think about it. I mean...it's not great knowing some good people who don't accept the word will suffer....but I mean, I don't really feel sorry for those who reject it...they'll get what's coming to them...
(same for bad Christians...they'll get what they deserve)
2007-08-09 10:27:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Peter said "Don't think that the return of the Lord is slow in comming.....for you see it is Gods will that none should perrish, but that all persons should be saved" (my paraphrase)
No one, not even God wants any to parrish (or burn in hell as you say). Why would you as such a sadistic question? I tel lthe story of Christ for the purpose of doin just the opposite of what you say, I want people to see the truth and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Any thoughts?
2007-08-09 17:29:37 · answer #2 · answered by ImJstBob 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm Jewish, but had to jump on this one. Hope it's okay.
Instilling fear of the most horrific living-eternal-death imaginable has always been the christian way. It's a money thing.
They used to torture and murder everyone who wouldn't comply with their demands of conversion or death, but it's not so easy to get away with anymore, so they continue to adhere to the threats in order to brainwash.
They also criticize, demean and hate all who are not christians. They learn it in church.
I always enjoy it when they knock on my door. I let them in and give them food and coffee.
Then I give them lessons about their misconceptions of the actual words of G*d, before the Bible was altered and mistranslated to the point of having to make up their own book.
I know their New Testament better than they do, and it doesn't even mathematically compute, much less their fabrications concerning biology, years, dates, and history.
G*d specifically stated "Thou shalt have "NO OTHER" G*ds before me.
This means "NO OTHER G*ds". What do most religions do? They manufacture man-g*ds, and worship "men", sticks of wood, altars and objects. Pagan idolotry is alive and well, and if you don't accept it, you will forever burn in the firey pit of hell. Yeah. I'm sure that's what the one and only true G*d would want.
Considering that christians worship the "King Of The Jews", doesn't it seem curious that they would abhor the Jewish people in the way they do. Did christians try to convert Jesus? Well, they better get snappin' because the second-coming is coming. Right?
Okay, I'm finished.
Nad
2007-08-09 17:42:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not care if you want to hear this or not- You can not pick and choose who answers you. this is an open forum. Any one who finds it amusing that someone is going to burn in hell for eternity is not a Christian. But, i do tell non believers what will happen to them on judgment day. Not out of amusement, but so they make an informed decision when they laugh and scorn God and his followers. I don't want them to be like, dang she WAS right! I want them to see that I am right NOW, before it is too late.
2007-08-09 17:30:42 · answer #4 · answered by GiGi! 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Think of a lake of fire. One which Jesus himself said that the flames are never quenched, AND THE TORMENT IS ETERNAL !! Have you ever been burned? It is most painful, and the pain just seems to last and last........
Why would anyone wish to think of someone being cast into this lake, and get any pleasure from it? That is truly horrible.
As a striving, growing Christian, it hurts my heart to think of any person having to suffer this torment. That is my reason for witnessing to others as to what God has done for me in my life, in hopes that they will repent, and accept Christ as their Lord and Savior. This is the choice that we are given. Eternal life, or eternal torment. To think of someone suffering eternal torment, and getting some type of perverse pleasure from it is demented. If that is the case, then the person in question is certainly not a Christian, and the love of Christ is surely NOT in them.
2007-08-09 18:43:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of people (a WHOLE lot) who do indeed gain amusement from the pain and suffering of others, real or imagined.
As for some of them being self-professed Christians - a bear can call himself a lion all day long. He's still a bear.
2007-08-09 17:44:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it saddens me.
But I know that being all preachy isn't going to help either, before I found Christ I wouldv'e like nothing better than to choke the next person to talk to me about God and The Word. So I just let anyone I meet know that if they want to talk and learn about Christ that they can always come to me and if not, I won't bother them anymore about it. You can't plant a seed if someone's not willing to receive it. God bless.
2007-08-09 17:32:42 · answer #7 · answered by Rhiannon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a christian who believes that Hell is just a demented fantasy of Dante and the Catholic church in order to obtain power and money through scare tactics. I prefer to believe God, when he says that the ultimate price for sin is in fact death itself, and that ashes return to ashes, and dust to dust. Acts 24:15 states there will be resurrection of the righteous AND the unrighteous. That means they died and paid for their sins in full.
2007-08-09 17:28:15 · answer #8 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry if you've been exposed to people you think get enjoyment on the possibility of anyone going to he!!
I've lived in He!l on this earth and I wouldn't wish it on you or my worse enemy. Don't take it so lightly on the prospects of he!l, it's not a joke, but I am sorry that you have had to deal with anyone that uses that form of judgment so carelessly and with malice.
2007-08-09 17:53:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As Christians we know that we would be heading in the same direction but for the grace of God. This grace is available to anyone.
2007-08-09 17:31:07 · answer #10 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋