God is love... and yet He can bear to send His naughty children to hell?

Answer 1

This is just religious nonsense.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 2

True, God is love as it says in 1 John 4:8. But Ezekiel 18:4 says - "...The soul that is sinning—it itself will die". So if the soul dies then there is nothing to send to hell. So there must not be a hell.

Answer 3

People that go to hell are NOT children of God.

John 1:11-12

Answer 4

People are not sent to hell because they are "naughty" -- works have nothing to do with salvation. If they did, there would be nobody in heaven because everybody sins -- for ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Christians are those who believe that God did something about man's sin, because man could not. We believe that Jesus came and lived among us for 33 years, living a sinless life. He then died to pay for OUR sins, since He had not sinned. And since He did not do the crime, He did not have to do the time -- He, Jesus the Man, lived again (Jesus, God, didn't die). He lives to pray for us; He lives to live through us, so that we have HIS power over sin.

That is not to say that we "work" our way into heaven. People can behave well, but have rotten attitudes. Jesus said in Matthew 5-7 that to be angry with somebody is to commit murder -- because the heart feels the same exact thing in both instances. God does not want our good works, He wants us to have good hearts -- the one thing we have no control over. We can't "feel" the right things just because we want to "feel" the right things. But we CAN believe that Jesus can feel those things in us, and act on His love. We can love Him for what He did for us. It is hard for me, as weak as I am to sustain the right feelings, I drift a lot, so for me to sustain this, I must stay close, read His word, talk to Him, praise Him when I see things He does through me that I tried doing over 45 years and never could.

A person who trusts Jesus death and life on their behalf, who loves God -- this is the one going to heaven.

As for unbelievers, God gives us all consciences, and Intelligent Design is easily seen in creation. Most of us have heard the gospel -- to believe in Jesus' death and resurrection. Many on this web-site who are against this gospel, have at least heard it. So, why should God be condemned for a decision made by unbelievers against Him, when the unbeliever is the one who made the decision to begin with. We must all live by the consequences of the decisions we make. How can God be blamed for them?

Answer 5

God loves each physique. After guy sinned interior the backyard of Eden, God presented a manner for guy to cleanse himself of sins by utilising sacrificing animals in accordance to the sin. right this is the surprising information. God loves guy plenty, he despatched his son to die on the visit liberate us from the punishment we deserve. God is protecting up our end of the best purchase by utilising sacrificing His own son. wager what we would desire to do? settle for Christ as our own savior. it particularly is it. straightforward suitable? he's given us probability and we don't take it. Hell is the effect. he's heartbroken that He has to do this, notwithstanding it particularly is ultimately guy's decision. As for you doubting, do no longer issue approximately it. by using doubt comes greater advantageous faith. If we don't question, learn and learn, how do we boost? I even have doubts for all time! Everytime I doubt or question, i discover solutions and new remarkable issues approximately my own Savior. he isn't indignant which you're doubting. Even the main efficient Christians do it.

Answer 6

We were created in God's image in the Spirit. When Adam & Eve 'fell' we got into the flesh. God recognizes us by the Spirit since He is Spirit and by rejecting His Spirit WE have given up rights to enter His blessed Kingdom.
Jesus died for ALL who will believe on Him and for those who have any kind of extenuating circumstance(lack of info, suicide,despair), we can trust He will always be fair.

Answer 7

We can't be His Children until we get rid of the sin nature that we were born with. We do this by following what He wrote in His book. Until we chose to do this, then there is no hope.

Answer 8

death is the penalty of sin, but a result of it, like genetic defects being passed on from one generation to another, sin causes sicknesses as well as the tendency to do wrong.

second hell is not what you think, it is not some place of conscious torment, in fact when the israelits were burning their child in the fire (they sacrificed their newborns to baal) he said it had not even come into his heart. the thought of burning someone alive was repugnant to him, in fact that is the basic reason why he punished them so severly. their cruelty.

it works against his sense of justice too, what kind of justice would it be to burn someone forever for a few years fo wrongdoing, and according to romans 6:7 he who has died as been acquitted of his sin, if death is the punishment, to make you alive to feel pain would amount to taking back the acquittal, double jeopardy would be what that would amount to. if you are aquitted you have no sin left to be punished for.

in the bible hell is mankinds common grave the problem came with uses for the same words for different places or conditions, hell, hades and sheol, hell is a place where you can be resurrected from sheol is not, yet they confuse people by connecting them all as hell. hades is said to be thrown into the lake of fire so how can hell be thrown into itself? it can't fire is symbolic of death with no resurrection.

the idea of god punishing people forever in torment was a babylonish idea not biblical. and the word torment is the same word used for jailers, when someone was in jail they called their jailers tormenters. so if you see the smoke of her torment forever means she is forever jailed and never to be released from jail (death)

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Answer 9

God loves us so much that he became man. Jesus Christ suffered and died on that cross on Mt. Calvery to cover our sins through his prescious blood. God does not want anyone to go to hell...people send themselves to hell by not beleiving on the name and acceptance Of Jesus Christ.

Answer 10

i am not christians at all , i am gay and i am anti christian...yes i can say that! it would be so easy for a christian to explain that, but they are so.....that they dont think properly:
is not god the one sending anyone to hell, god wants their children to be happy, so if their children choose to follow the wrong path, he doesnt stand in front, he respects their decisions...he is the father and he lets his children go away from him if that is the choice they make...
i obviously think this is crap but it would be so easy for a christian to look for better arguments than the ones they choose