Just wondering. Apparently, "the smoke of their torment" rises forever and ever, and you'll get to smell it, whenever you want. Does this sit right with you? If I were up in heaven, and say, one of my kids were tossed in hell, I'd leave heaven and go to hell to comfort my child. How about you?
2007-08-22 07:02:21 · 11 answers · asked by Meow 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry but every answer so far, is totally stupid.
2007-08-22 07:15:22 · update #1
Why wait that long to experience the feeling?.. My friend's brother was molested in his childhood by a priest ( he was also a family member ). Some 30 years later, the bastard is a bishop. The boy in question had a terrible life full of sadness and pain, completely unable to trust anyone. Last month he decided to file a lawsuit against the church: to get some kind of a closure after all these years.Now, his entire family is embracing him, but his parents have a problem excepting his choices... After coming home from morning mass one day, his mother was sobbing her pain of being treated badly at the church ( she was blamed for her son's lawsuit ). Her reaction was: why did he have to bring it up now, after all these years? I would be blaming myself for not saving my baby from all the pain, but she was worried about what the people will say... To some people their selfish faith is much more important than the well being of their children.
2007-08-22 20:09:45 · answer #1 · answered by ms.sophisticate 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would guess the unimaginable joy in Heaven will so far surpass 'the smoke of their torment' that we won't be able to focus on it. Kind of like when anything really good happens. For a moment, all the bad that has happened in your life isn't even remembered...for a moment. Well, in heaven, we'll have that 'moment' for eternity. I appreciate your sentiment about your child but I would suppose the idea of Hell is that you are in so much torment yourself that you cannot be of any comfort to anybody.
2007-08-22 07:20:46 · answer #2 · answered by starfishltd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a christian (though I was raised in a christian household) and this is one of the reasons. Without a second thought, I would leave a so called heaven and enter hell for my children. Even if comfort were impossible, I would go just so they wouldn't suffer alone.
2007-08-22 08:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by Recreant- father of fairies 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"If I were up in heaven, and say, one of my kids were tossed in hell, I'd leave heaven and go to hell to comfort my child."
If your child really wanted comfort, why doesn't he or she simply accept God's love, a love that God wants to give freely? The only thing that is torturing them is their conscience (and perhaps their subconscious), which finally recognizes how wrong they were for (mis)judging God and how much fuller their lives could have been if they hadn't. What tortures them isn't God, but the realization of how much they lost.
2007-08-22 13:54:15 · answer #4 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God will wipe every tear away, and it will include the memory's of those who are not with us in heaven. As for now it honestly pains me to know this fact that some of my loved ones refuse God.
Revelation 21:4
4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away."
Revelation 7:16-17
16"They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat;
17for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."
2007-08-22 07:19:31 · answer #5 · answered by Kathy H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, no loving god could enable that! they're brainwashed into thinking that is a decision so all us non christians "choose for" to pass to "hell" so hence why could they be upset at our very own determination? *rolls eyes* The Christians that I honestly have asked approximately this many circumstances honestly have faith eternal punishment in hell is justice! that is obvious those human beings do no longer even know the which means of the be conscious justice. the inability of humility in a number of those solutions is stunning and in basic terms shows how sadistic human beings may well be!
2016-10-16 11:52:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There will come a time when Christ will wipe away every tear. So evidently for a while, I believe we will be upset.
And sorry, but you couldn't leave heaven and go to hell, there is a great gulf that seperates it.
This is why, you shouldn't wait to witness to your children.
2007-08-22 07:57:09 · answer #7 · answered by grandmotherx41979 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Jesus will be there to wipe away our tears. Also, in heaven we will be able to understand the justice of God.
2007-08-22 07:13:07 · answer #8 · answered by Gui 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't exactly "enjoy" it...
But I wouldn't let ruin a perfectly good day in Heaven, either...
(Bastards get what they deserve...)
2007-08-22 07:09:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God made his covenant with continued generations. This is probably why.
2007-08-22 07:14:25 · answer #10 · answered by morris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋