I read that in Dante's Inferno---It is very wise in my opinion.
If God is absolute Justice, Righteousness, Holiness, and wisdom. We have no right to argue with His infinitely wise choice. What are your views?
2007-08-26 20:31:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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?
2007-08-26 20:50:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Lord takes no joy in the destruction of the wicked. Who said that God doe not pity those who refuse to get off of the broad path to hell?
"If God is absolute Justice, Righteousness, Holiness, and wisdom. We have no right to argue with His infinitely wise choice"
This sounds like Calvinistic doctrines of grace thinking.
God does pity those who choose hell. But He will not override their free will.
2007-08-26 20:40:01 · answer #2 · answered by ReefLobster 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dante was a impotent storyteller, not a Biblical scholar.
It says in Ezekiel that "The Sovereign Lord takes pleasure in the death of no one". Neither should we. It is a sad thing for people to be condemned.
2007-08-26 21:27:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would an all-loving god decided to condemn someone to hell for eternity for a finite number of sins? Would this god also send Gandhi to hell for not being Christian? Pity all you like for those who have been sent "to hell." God won't care.
2007-08-26 20:38:34 · answer #4 · answered by kwok 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course you have a right to argue and disagree with god, that is the main reason humans have FREE WILL. Remember, right and wrong are perceptions by one person or a whole culture, but it still is only a perception. Right and wrong can not be proven as facts.
2007-08-26 20:37:56 · answer #5 · answered by anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interesting question. you're really out to make us think this morning, aren't you?
i'm unsure of my thoughts/feelings on this. i have a hard time imagining God condemning anyone to hell, even if i thought the person deserves it. i think we choose where we go, heaven or hell. i WANT to live in the place full of love and generosity, safety and peace. i WANT to sing God's praises with the angels. i WANT to be in the presence of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. even if i don't understand it, some don't choose this. Jesus died on the cross to save us all from hell but it's still our choice if we claim that amazing sacrafice of love and forgiveness.
watch out....i'm going to get deep here.... hahaha....i was taught the necessity of forgiving everyone but had great difficulty doing so with the man who raped me in 1981. God's righteousness and justice does prevail. a preson touched by God quoted a bible verse that said something like this......vengence is mine, sayeth the Lord. i will pour hot, firey coals on his head who torments my loved ones. that helped me forgive. the people i've told about this have a hard time understanding that i could forgive him but it was eating me alive inside. hatred and fear destroy. have i gotten sidetracked?
2007-08-27 02:11:45 · answer #6 · answered by susan l 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we have no right to question God. We have no right to pity the sinners for they were condemned base on their own doings.
jtm
2007-08-26 20:40:23 · answer #7 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No right to argue, but not no right to at least pity those that have been sent there. If you could TRULY understand Hell, you would not want ANYONE to go there.
2007-08-26 20:53:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
everybody has their own unfastened will to chosen who they decide to worship. this is the great situation approximately God. devil chosen the existence he leads of lies & deceit. So if one options to circulate that direction, we are able to b difficulty & pray for that man or woman yet basically he can chosen interior the long-term. If u decide to ? God's justice in doing that, it returned is u'r own decision. seek the scriptures to make certain why He chooses that. i've got not got "pity" on those whom r justly condemned... I even have unhappiness b/c returned... they chosen that direction. what's the saying.. "u can lead a horse to water yet u won't have the capacity to make him drink." same w/ ppl.. u can lead them, coach them the certainty, yet u won't have the capacity to cause them to settle for it.
2016-10-17 02:19:55 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What bliss will fill the ransomed souls,
When they in glory dwell,
To see the sinner as he rolls,
In quenchless flames of hell.
2007-08-26 20:35:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋