create a hell???
is it god a bit unsecure about how marvelous is to believe in him and accept him, that he needs a hell as punishment for those who fail to accept him?
if he was so superb why would he need a hell?
think of a place where people feel really great, where they were happy and they enjoyed their time ...for a place like this would it be necessary to create a rule that said: "if you dont come you will be punished"? if the place was so great why would people not go to?
the punishment would be not going there...
so if god needs to create a hell for me since i dont accept him in my heart that must be because accepting him is not really so marvelous
2007-08-15 13:37:32 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
but for those who denied him, that would have to be the punishment if he is so marvelous and everything
2007-08-15 13:45:12 · update #1
johny if i had children who ignored me i dont think i would throw them to a lake of fire
2007-08-15 13:49:31 · update #2
God is our Creator. That's how we begin to define God. He is proposing that we become joined with Him in a supernatural fellowship/communion. God Himself is the only objective. Heaven is just a place where this communion occurs.
But while God is a loving father, He is also an authority. We love the idea of a loving father but hate the idea of an authority over us. Hell is just a place for those who reject the authority of God. To us who want God, hell looks terrible but perhaps it is just what the God rejectors want and need. I think the gates of hell are barred from the inside and I don't think that anyone goes there by accident or mistake.
I think you are looking to the concept of hell as a reason to reject God but from your words, haven't you already rejected God?
2007-08-17 00:18:25 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God made you
He wants a relationship with you
He is your only Source
Why turn your back on your ONLY SOURCE?
Hell is NOT punishment. Hell is an alternative for those who reject their only source.
If you ever have children and they grwo up ignoring you completely, then you will have a vague idea of how God feels when YOU ignore HIM!
Eze 33:11 Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
2007-08-15 20:48:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people cannot stand the presence of God. So in His mercy He has an alternative. But trillions and trillions of years in the lake of fire is not for me. Straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life and few there be that find it. Matt ch5
2007-08-15 20:49:37 · answer #3 · answered by copperhead89 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell was not created for man but for the angels that left their first estate, but humanity that does not desire God's mercy will go there also.
God is able and willing to save all who come to him through the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross of Calvary, but for the one who will not come to him to be saved from sin and judgment, he will be judged.
2007-08-15 21:05:37 · answer #4 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not about insecurity. It is about sinfulness. For those who ask for His forgiveness and live for Him, there is a place reserved in heaven. For those who do not accept that or Him, as you say you do not, why should God let you in?
All of us are sinners, but there are two kinds of sinners. One kind has asked God for forgiveness and offered their lives to Him out of gratitude. The other kind rejects God and lives for themselves. Heaven is not offered to them. Does He owe that to you? He does not owe it to me; I am a sinner who has broken His laws more times than I can count. Yet He does promise a place in heaven to me because I am a sinner redeemed by grace.
2007-08-15 20:51:26 · answer #5 · answered by Bob T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since this is a very intense topic, allow me these few seconds to give you an insight to the purpose of hell. Mankind was not destined to go to hell. Hell was the creation by God to punish Satan and all his evil angels for misleading mankind. Hell was set up for all those fallen angels who by their own choice elected to rebel against God. It was set up as eternal punishment for them.
Man (as in mankind) have had a free choice as to which path man will take. Choose God or Choose evil, evil as in rebellion against God. So evil do'ers will have not only a physical death, but a spiritual death as well. That spiritual death is eternal separation form God. Knowledge of God is not hidden. One can choose to learn about him or reject him altogether. There will never be any arm twisting from God for you to go to heaven. You and all and any who choose to mock God have your choice. Trust me for all who read this portion. God does not want you in heaven if you choose not to. Its that old free will stuff. "BUT" if you choose God it has to be under his terms, not yours. You are not the creater of the universe, he is, so he sets the rules. Its like you building a house, you move in set it up your way and someone says "can I move in"? You say of course yes, providing you follow my rules.
Some of the evil of mankind will end up in hell along side with satan. As in Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, and any other evil one of mankind.
2007-08-15 21:02:59 · answer #6 · answered by Tinman12 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to God's will, god plans all of our choices and actions before they occur. That being said, god made me an atheist. How smart of him.
2007-08-15 20:44:06 · answer #7 · answered by nckmcgwn 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not all the people believe in God. Some deny His Godhood.
2007-08-15 20:42:55 · answer #8 · answered by rose_ovda_night 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
He's obviously not your choice, so don't worry about it!
2007-08-15 21:06:25 · answer #9 · answered by zytlaly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
exactly why I can never be a Christian. well, one reason.
2007-08-15 20:46:54 · answer #10 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋