I wouldn't.
Would you?
If you thinkt his question is too hypothetical then don't answer the question. Thank you.
2007-09-10 18:47:05 · 21 answers · asked by Someone 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Give me a break people, sending a serial killer to hell doesn't make a difference. They don't have free will, there is a biological/psychological basis for the way they behave. You fix them or trash them, you don't sit around torturing them because they were helpless in the first place.
2007-09-10 19:01:39 · update #1
What a fascinating question! No I wouldn't, and I don't think any moral person would.
"RABS" wrote a very interesting response, and a common Christian answer, to this question. He wrote: "What else would one expect when he rejects God's love and offer of salvation?" Sounds like good Christian logic, doesn't it?
So suppose my own child (we're said to be God's children) rejected my love and my offer of guidance and an education so that he could acheive "salvation" from immorality, poverty, and the evils of this world. It happens all the time. And suppose for doing so I placed him in a dungeon, tortured him with fire, and caused him such mental and physical anguish that he wept, wailed, and gnashed his teeth for the rest of his life.
According to RABS' logic, and generally accepted Christian doctrine, that would not only be okay, it would be fair and just. "What else would one expect when he rejects [my] love and offer of salvation?"
Either the doctrine of hell means that God Himself is immoral and unthinkably evil, which I cannot accept, or it is just plain wrong. Perhaps the Biblical teachings on Hell were misinterpreted, or perhaps the concept of Hell was fabricated (and is still being used) to control the Christian masses. Whichever it is, the doctrine of eternal damnation in a lake of fire is inhuman, unthinkable, abhorrent, and immoral, as is the teaching and use of it to control others through fear.
2007-09-10 19:15:07 · answer #1 · answered by Don P 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It appears that the doctrine of hell is there because there has to be a place to put all the evil souls. If souls live forever, then the evil ones apparently go to hell. It makes sense to me. I don't want to be in heaven and be exposed to the same rotten people as I have encountered on earth. So, if I don't keep God's commandments, then hell is something that I can expect. A man is what he does. If he hasn't the works, then he hasn't the faith. This "faith" only nonsense without the works is just another lie of false christianity, which isn't Christian at all because it is still important to keep His commandments. If more people kept them we would have a lot fewer problems.
2016-05-17 04:37:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO.
Acts 2:27-31; Jesus was placed in a cave, John 19:38-42; His soul was not left in hell [ the cave, tomb, sepulchre or grave ].
It is not what God calls it but the term used by people and it is the burial of a dead body.
There is death and burial in fire for many reasons or by people and some did sacrifice humans in the fire Jer.7:30,31; 19:2-5; Josiah made it the city dump Mark 9:42-48; As it was in the time of Jesus.
Rev.20:12,13; 1Cor.15:22-28; The dead come forth even from death. Rev.21:8; Then is the second death and no one is to blame but self.
2007-09-10 18:57:56 · answer #3 · answered by jeni 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People put themselves in hell. It's not like they aren't warned about it ahead of time.
Most of the people who are probably there (serial killers, mass murderers, etc.) did a lot to earn the trip there, and got what they deserve, IMO.
Edit:
I don't share your view of serial killers. They aren't "helpless people" who don't have free will. Investigations into the matter have shown that most of these guys know and realize that what they are doing is wrong and evil. They just don't care. Your assessment of them is essentially the defense attorney's argument for these guys, which I don't buy. God's ultimate justice is perfect. In the end, we all get what we deserve - no exceptions.
God is far more patient and forgiving than I am. That's one reason why God is God, and I'm not.
2007-09-10 18:56:40 · answer #4 · answered by the phantom 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I wouldn't create a hell to put people in, but a place of solitude for them to realise what they have done and until they realise their mistakes and evolve they would stay there and not see anyone or speak, just be in a white place, warm, but all alone.
2007-09-10 19:04:02 · answer #5 · answered by Sarina77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is One God, it is nice, if there were many among us perhaps we would have been in the hell by some hateful people long before we can put them. I thank God you should thank him also.
2007-09-10 19:21:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Awesome question! If I were God, there would be no hell. The bad people would just cease to exist when they died. If I loved my people and considered them my children, why would I condemn so many to pain, agony, despair and torture? Especially if they are good people and just didn't believe in me or go to church.
2007-09-10 19:00:07 · answer #7 · answered by stardust23716 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am told that God loves me no matter what. Why would he want to burn me in hell. Just becaue I like taking ladies to bed and cursing to emphasize something. Would i burn in hell for this? My God will not do this. He would show me how to avoid this behaviour if its important.
2007-09-10 19:16:54 · answer #8 · answered by 1st Liberal 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I would just 'erase' them. As if they never existed. Especially the pedophiles, and really wicked, hateful, people who take pleasure in hurting others.
2007-09-10 18:56:07 · answer #9 · answered by God's Fountain Pen 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't put us in Hell. We choose where we want to go by the way we live...
2007-09-10 19:00:50 · answer #10 · answered by mij 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋