... something you can't possibly comprehend or conceive, and it could possibly involve eternal torment in Hell.. ... is this quality (being all-loving i mean) a good quality for a god?
Is it still a quality your want for your god to have?
People keep saying that God is "all-loving", but our conception of that term is misguided or mistaken. He's all-loving from His own point of view, which is maybe something that involves eternal suffering, opression, slavery, torture, etc...
2007-08-11 23:22:37 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If God exists, He made us and must have put the idea inside of us that love and compassion and honesty and mercy and justice are good and that we should do all those things because they are right. If the God who created us that way exists, I cannot possibly see how He could be other than loving in the same way we see the ideal of love.
The "reward" for seeking God is to find God. The reward is not heaven. Heaven is just a place to be with God. Similarly, hell is just a place for those who reject Him and don't want Him near them. I think that those who desire God see hell as torture but for those who reject God, they bar the doors of hell themselves.
2007-08-13 00:37:39 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you are right
Have you ever seen someone tortured?Hopefully not. Deliberate torture is sickening and abhorrent. What, though, of torture inflicted by God?Can you imagine such a thing? Yet this is exactly what is implied by the teaching of hellfire, an official doctrine of many religions.
Imagine for a moment, the following horrific scene: A person is being roasted on a hot iron plate. In his agony he screams for mercy, but nobody listens. The torture goes on and on, hour after hour, day after day without any pause!
Whatever crime the victim may have committed, would not your heart go out to him? What of the one who ordered the torture? Could he be a loving person? In no way!
Love is merciful and shows pity. A loving father may punish his children, but he would never tortyure them!
Nevertheless, many religions teach that God tortures sinners in an eternal hellfire. This it is claimed is divine justice. If that is true, who created that terrible place of eternal torment? And whoi is responsible for the excruciating agonies inflicted there? The answers would seem obvious. If such a place really exists, then God would have to be the creator of it, and he would be responsible for what happens there.
Can you accept that?The Bible says :"God is love"(1John4:8) Would a God of love inflict torture that even humans with any measure of decency find revolting? Surely not!
Still many believe that the wicked will go to a fiery hell and be tortured forever. Is this teaching logical? The human lkifespan is limited to 70 or 80 years. Even if someone perpetrated extreme wickedness for his whole lifetime, would everlasting torment be a just punishment?No. It would be grossly unjust to torment a man forever for the limited number of sins that he can commit in a lifetime.
Who knows the truth about what happens after we die? Only God can reveal this information, and he has done so in his written word the Bible. Here is what the Bible says:"As the [beast dies. so the [man] dies; and they all have but one spirit...All are going to one place. They have all come from the dust, and they atre all returning to the dust."(Ecclesiastes3:19,20) There is no mention here of a fiery hell. Humans return to dust-to non-existence when they die.
In order to be tortured, an individual would have to be conscious. Are the dead conscious?No."The living are consciuous that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the rememberance of them has been forgotten."(Ecclesiastes9:5) It is impossible for the dead,"conscious of nothing at all,"to experience the agonies of hellfire.
2007-08-12 07:01:52 · answer #2 · answered by I speak Truth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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The point of the references above is to prove that the phrase and attribute you assigned to God is not in the Bible. God Hates sin and will destroy it.
2007-08-12 06:34:02 · answer #3 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This one of the many good reasons to reject religion it's gods and especially their leaders.
It makes me sick to think that people [mainly children] do really belief stuff like that and have nightmares about it. Mean mean mean.
2007-08-12 06:33:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe IT'S can be said as : ALL LOVING TO ALL HATREDSS ?.
2007-08-12 06:59:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋