do you love god because you dont want to go to hell or do you really love god even if he sends you to hell.
2007-09-21 16:39:08 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-09-21 16:42:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 11⤋
ever had that special uncle you love because he bought you that special toy you was wanting. or you loved your parents completely for the many sacrifices they made on your behalf
like that special toy I sometimes get captivated watching a bird or animals for long periods or just standing next to a stream or staring at the clouds. I have spent much more time in this way than playing with any toy. I have thought about GOD and all that he has done for me more than I have thought of anyone else. In the past whenever someone else did something for me it was out of love, so I guess all of these things I enjoy must be done out of love as well.
So I guess my answer would be, I love GOD because he loves me, and if for a reason I do not know he should send me to hell, then that is his will but I will still love him for he is my father, of which I am very proud.
2007-09-22 00:18:14 · answer #2 · answered by sir wayne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither.
I love God because He suffered the very wrath that I deserve. It is because of the Lord Jesus' great kindness that I would be spared such a fate.
I would not entertain the idea of God sending me to hell only for the reason that he promised otherwise and I need not speculate or pretending for a moment that God would lie about His promises.
But if God allows me to suffer somehow. If He sends me to the worst tortures, or gives me the most horrible disease, or prolongs my life in horrible pain, then I will glory in Him all the more, because of His faithfulness.
I love God because He first loved me, and if you ever realize His true love for you by suffering the wrath of hell upon himself for you, and if you repent and trust in Him, then you too would love Him, not out of fear of Hell, but out of gratitude to have saved us from such a horrid fate.
When a man meditates on the truths of eternity in a lake of fire, and sees the very sins in his life that send him there, how can he do anything but throw off the sins and fall before God for mercy.
God is merciful and kind. He loves you more than you'll understand and He suffered more than you'll ever understand. Don't spit in the face of your Creator another day. He wants to save you and bring you in to His Kingdom.
Please consider His promises carefully and weigh your eternity with the utmost soberness.
2007-09-21 23:54:56 · answer #3 · answered by dooltaz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those who know God knows that God is LOVE.
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LOVE is, because God is. If there were no love, there would be no God. The existence of love is proof that God is. Love could come only from God. The materialistic way that modern-day scientists try to explain all creation is absolutely loveless and can never explain how that heart-warming, motivating quality came to exist. What their theories of creation result in is just a cold universe, without love, without a purpose. Hard, matter-of-fact, physical science is their god, their idol of worship, which has no appeal to the heart. No less void of love are the gods of the pagans. They are gods of passion, but their passion even for sex is not true love. One feature about these gods that makes them unloving is the fiendish, sadistic delight they are said to take in horribly torturing creatures in an afterlife for not pleasing these gods during life now in this wicked world. Which one of such gods sets forth the principle of love as the one living and true God does in his Word, the sacred Bible? Among all the religions built around such gods which one gives examples of love like that of Jehovah God through his Son Jesus Christ? Not one! No, not one of such religions and its literature has the spirit of true Godship working through it as the Holy Bible has. Therefore the Bible must be God’s Book, because it teaches and is pervaded with divine love.
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2007-09-21 23:46:19 · answer #4 · answered by EBONY 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
either I love God or not, God will still love me. And God does not send me to hell, I choose to go to hell by committing sins.
2007-09-21 23:46:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
If I were to go to hell then I would remember all of the negative feelings I have ever had and they would be intensified to the point that I would be completely unable to find an ounce of love or goodness or anything else holy within my soul.
The love that I have for him comes from what he did for me, by changing me, making me whole, cleansing me of sin and giving me new life. It doesn't come from any good thing in my own nature.
Salvation is all of God and nothing of us.
2007-09-21 23:54:10 · answer #6 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I always love God, and I don't believe in hell.
Even when bad things happen, I do. This is the same thing that happened with Job. And even though Satan took away everything he had, he still stayed faithful and loved God. He doesn't cause the bad things that happen to us.
2007-09-21 23:43:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those who go to hell have no capacity to love God, because they are in Hell by choice. But one ought to love God, not so he won't send you to Hell, but because we are all deserving of Hell, and are recipients of His mercy anyway.
2007-09-21 23:43:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thats a good question.
I love God because he's not going to send me to hell.
2007-09-21 23:42:36 · answer #9 · answered by Tripper 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I read a book a while back, by Philip Nancy I think, and one theory to our creation was to see if someone/thing could love God on their own free will, afterall, angels were created to love God. To love God so you don't go to hell is called fear of the Lord. If you really love God, you would trust his decision to send you to hell. If you love him, you know his laws and would follow them. I really don't mean to sound preachy....
There are so many theories to our creation its hard to make a thought of my own,
know what I'm sayin'?
2007-09-21 23:47:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
God won't send us to hell, because we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. If you want to know what love is, read 1 Cor chapter 13 in the Holy Bible. God is love. He loves you too.
2007-09-21 23:46:53 · answer #11 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋