2007-08-21 03:44:40 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Seek4truth: Letting him go is just a little bit different from eternal torture don't you think?
2007-08-21 03:58:05 · update #1
Not if you gave him free will. That wouldn't make sense to do that, and then punish him.
2007-08-21 03:47:55 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you ask ridiculously silly questions that don't make any kind of sense, would I torture you for eternity?
No. I would only torture you for 51 billion years ~
2007-08-21 03:54:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't be my choice to torture him, it would be his own choice to be tortured. God allows us to make the choice. He doesn't give us 51 billion chances, just a few. If we continue to reject him, He will let us go on our on way. The line in the sand is drawn, once we cross that line there's no hope.
Today is the day, now is the hour to come to Jesus.
2007-08-21 03:53:46 · answer #3 · answered by Gummy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. In the end, it's his beliefs that are his own not yours. He may come from your bones and blood, but in the end he is on his own. The only thing that you can share with him is time, thoughts, feelings,location, memories, and moments.
Torturing a loved one to acknowledge and believe you is more selfish and disrespectful not to him, but to you as a parent. Have your son decide. I trust that you have confidence in your practice as a parent, and that you've done all your best to nuture and be there for him. He his human and have the mental capacity and capability to believe all what he wants. If he must take the hard road, let him.
2007-08-21 04:05:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your son refused to have anything to do with you, would you force him to live with you forever or would you eventually let him go, even though you know if means cutting himself off from your necessary support.
God is the source of good, light and love. But some people don't want God in their life. God reaches out to them anyways, demonstrates His extreme love for them, tries to win their hearts. But if they refuse, He does not force them against their will, they are given their wish. After they die, they get to spend eternity without God. Is it any surprise that this is a dark, evil, lonely place? Since God is the source of light, then by withdrawing there will only be darkness left. When good is withdrawn because it is rejected, only evil is left. When love is withdrawn, there is only loneliness left. These are the unintended but logically necessary consequences of not wanting God in your life that become permanent in the after-life.
Here is a story that illustrates the concept of evil being the absence of good:
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/professor.html
2007-08-21 03:55:08 · answer #5 · answered by Seek4Truth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What I do, and What God does and has the right to do, are not in the same category. Another way to look at it is like this, Would you want to be forced by God to go through eternity doing what you hated here on Earth, things like Praise and Worship, Fellowship with other believers, Loving and serving God himself? No you would not, so all he is doing is allowing you to continue to serve the god you serve here on earth forever.
2007-08-21 03:56:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sweet Pea no I wouldn't. That is why God gives you a chance to repent and get it right. It is your choice, were you want to spend eternity, he did this for a reason. If you chose to sin the wages of it is death and hell, if you chose to be a good doer than the wages of this is a very happy afterlife with God our Father. God bless!
2007-08-21 03:54:23 · answer #7 · answered by b n real 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. I will give him another 51 billion and 1 chance more if I have to.
2007-08-21 03:50:15 · answer #8 · answered by The Boy Next Door 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't torture anybody, I would hope my son given all the facts would come to the right conclusion. He would be aware of the consequences of his actions.
2007-08-21 03:48:11 · answer #9 · answered by Scott B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course! I love him so much that I have to torture him. For eternity.
2007-08-21 03:51:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
After awhile it isn't chances given him.It is he rejecting evidence.Once he starts rejecting the conscience gets seared shut,then,for the most part ,it is too late.He rejected rather than I gave up.
I love that Avitar.I had a guy in my neighborhood who looked like that.His name was "Chiego" means "one eye",one eye was all gray. He was the local "Wino" when I was a kid.
2007-08-21 03:51:57 · answer #11 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋