Can a god actually punish me even if they are all powerful? Let us assume that there is beyond a shadow of a doubt a god and that he/she/it is very angry and will punish me. Can that god truly punish me? The purpose of the punishment (i.e., hell.) is to make me miserable for angering the god. However, if I find enjoyment in the punishment, don’t I win?
2007-09-21 09:30:25 · 25 answers · asked by Gavin 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Enjoying a punishment does not necessarily mean you get off to being beaten. Look at Sisyphus. He was punished by being forced to push and rock up the side of a mountain only to have it fall back down again for all eternity. See? A punishment without being hit.
2007-09-21 09:39:32 · update #1
you are a bit of a wuss
2007-09-21 09:34:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hell is the final stop for those who have disobeyed God's commandments and chose a life of sin. It is equivalent to eternal death. Not for enjoyment or torture. This is the creation of sinful man's imagination. The Father will ABOLISH sin. Get rid of it. Eradicate it with those who are committed to it.
Those who are well on their way are already dying though. They just don't realize it. They're like those people laughing at everyone else while they themselves have unknowingly caught fire. Damnation is the full culmination of death. It is final. So that they may parish with the dying sinful world they've made and loved so much.
You don't have to be committed to a digging your own hole. If you seek the Father he will keep you and guide you so that you may live. I pray that you will.
2007-09-21 09:53:49 · answer #2 · answered by F'sho 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He can literally take your "breath" away.... lol. Remember how the most powerful man on Earth at one point was gasping for breath and was close to death, even though there was air all around him, because a pretzel he himself put in his mouth got lodged in the wrong part of his own anatomy.
Do not under estimate the Mighty One. Pharoah did and left the grand symbols of tombs of a dead culture for everyone to see, and Moses is accepted by more than half of the World population as a Grand Prophet of the Holy One!!
If you do not see the writing on the wall, is because you have your back to it.... turn around, slowly and gently!! The truth is right in front of your nose, but you must not insist on groping with your eyes firmly closed.
You may fall into a pit!!
May the Lord guide you if you so deserve. Amen.
I hope this makes sense!!
2007-09-21 09:40:21 · answer #3 · answered by NQV 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
U should believe in ur conscious, which decides which act is good or bad for u. It is not God, who is watching u, but it is ur conscious. There is no heaven or hell elsewhere other than on this planet Earth. As u might have experienced, pleasure in heaven and torture in hell exist around yourself and nowhere else. The reaction of the surroundings, to ur acts, is your reward or punishment. Enjoyment or feeling of sorrow is ur personal view. Gee Waman
2007-09-21 09:53:35 · answer #4 · answered by Gee Waman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He doesn't have to beat you. Satan already has. Still there is hope as long as you draw breath into your lungs. After that, if you haven't repented and followed God's ways instead of your own, then lies the promise of:
7 He who overcomes shall inherit all things,[d] and I will be his God and he shall be My son. 8 But the cowardly, unbelieving,[e] abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (Revelation 21: 7-8)
2007-09-21 09:46:13 · answer #5 · answered by manddkeller 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In order for "the god" to be a god, he/she/it would be more powerful than you, so what makes you think that any punishment he/she/it dishes out would be enjoyable if he/she/it doesn't intend it to be?
2007-09-21 09:37:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the end, he can give you over to another who will punish you, torture you, and put you into anguish, pain and suffering for a million x a million years + eternity.
2007-09-21 09:33:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't understand. Hell is the absence of God, who is the source of ALL comforts and pleasures. In hell you couldn't feel happy if you tried. Happiness doesn't exist there. Only the absence of God exists there. Evil.
2007-09-21 09:40:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Only if you buy your God Megaphone through Catholic Industries Inc. for 10% of your incoe for life. It's worth it, trust me! God dun hearz my prayers ever day!
Edit: I thought you asked, "can God hear me?" Okay I am an idiot. LoL. But that was fun still, wasn't it? =P
2007-09-21 09:38:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is simply eternal separation from the God that YOU have no real desire to know. So, yes, if you go to hell, you win the reward that you wanted.
2007-09-21 09:37:32 · answer #10 · answered by A Voice 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ya see > Hell isn`t all about burning. What really occurs is individual. So, YOUR version of Hell (different from others) is what you will get. Cause ya see God acts according to YOUR faith.. So what YOU expect hell would be, to YOU, Is EXACTLY what you get.
It breaks his heart when YOU win....
Peace & God bless from Texas <><
2007-09-21 09:39:42 · answer #11 · answered by jaantoo1 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋