2007-09-22 13:39:14 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
or morality just does not apply to God, if he is so sadistic to be punishing (torturing)people FOREVER ?
2007-09-22 13:42:26 · update #1
Christians are you telling me if your child disobey you, you set your house on fire and burn him till the end of his life hopeing that he loves you?
Where do you see justice and morality in TORTURING people forever?
Are you that sadistic?
2007-09-22 13:55:53 · update #2
typo*hoping
2007-09-22 13:59:20 · update #3
Hell is a completely immoral concept. Any god who would allow such torture is also immoral.
They will tell you that people "choose" to go to hell but that does not make the concept or the god any less immoral.
2007-09-22 13:46:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 6⤋
You are free to live your own way. Please let me live like the creator of the heavens and earth wants me to live. I don't tell you how crazy I think you are so why do you continuously run me down as a Christian.
Living as a Christian, I have a wonderful support system here and I have hope of a better tomorrow. I have brothers and sisters in Jesus, the Christ, whom I love and that love me. I am very happy with my life. Why do you not worry about your own life and leave me and the true Christians alone and allow us to commune with one another? I do not go into your forums and start running you down and making fun of you. Can't you be a decent person and let us live as we believe? Seems like that would be fair, don't you think?
2007-09-22 14:46:08 · answer #2 · answered by mesquiteskeetr 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
There is not enough time and space to answer this question completely, but asking if HELL is moral is to first of all put yourself in the place of judging God....does not work.
Secondly, God's desire is that no one perishes. Being a righteous God, no unrighteousness can co-exist with (within) Him. As another has already stated, the wages of sin is death and without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. To prove His great love, God made it easy for us by shedding His own blood--He died for us--that we might live.
If we reject that love, the outcome is only one thing--darkness can only abide in darkness. Light can only contain light. It is not God who torments; Satan does that and will share with all who are lost at the final judgment.
2007-09-22 13:55:58 · answer #3 · answered by hillmenclan 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
There is the concept of "Adhaab e jaariya" or "Thawaab-e-jaariya", which literally means Continuous punishment for the former phrase and the latter means Continuous Blessings.
If a person God forbid made his money through the prostitutes and created an institution that would continue to force women to join the ranks of prostitutes, such person would pay a penalty as long as his evil deed is alive. It can extend to many lives over many generations. EVERYONE THAT IS AFFECTED by his crime or sin is on his shoulders.
In a mere one life time he can affect many hundreds of lives and others who are affected through them through a deadly chain and network of wrong doing. Thus the problem can compound into hundreds of years of punishment.
The Lord Almighty would not punish ANYONE without just cause or for not having created a compatible crime that caused a lot of hardship for many. Imagine not only the life of the one prostitute but all her generations that would come tainted because of her and because of the man who forced her into prostitution and those again afecting chains of wrong doing.
Now imagine murder. If a person is killed, you have not only killed that person, but also denied all the possible persons who would come in his lineage the privilege of life. What right does the murderer have to deny so many people their right to live? See how seemingly single sins can multiply into enormous dimensions.
We all sin and the Lord can give us absolution through compensating those who are affected by our actions. He has the resources to compensate. However, if a person is an atheist or an agnostic or is a polytheist, he may not ask the Lord to compensate on your behalf, thus our sins and their consequences will overwhelm us.
If the Lord would be generous without asking, then the Hitlers and the Stalins and the Saddams would become the primary beneficiaries of the Holy One!! Thus he has to have people turn and ask him for forgiveness so that he does not become unfair and spare some for not asking and spare others without asking.
I hope some of this makes sense to you.
2007-09-22 13:53:52 · answer #4 · answered by NQV 4 · 1⤊ 6⤋
The concept of Hell is difficult for many people. God is the source of all morality and righteousness. Evil is what God says it is. We are all God's creation, and He can do as He wills with what He has made. God is just. He made a way to escape Hell and promised that those that seek will find it. Keep asking the big questions. Not enough people do. I think it shows wisdom for those that do.
2007-09-22 13:53:03 · answer #5 · answered by AngryMarvin 4 · 3⤊ 5⤋
It isn't, and it doesn't exist...this is what the more radical Christians would have you believe because they were raised on this nonsense. IMO, it is the height of arrogance to believe your faith alone is the only faith and you and others like you are the only ones that will gain admittance to Heaven...just ain't so, Joe. God loves ALL and wants ALL to be with Him for eternity...which is why He sent His Son to die for our sins on the cross. Hell is here on earth and it is up to us to do our lives right and graduate to the next life; if we don't we have to do it all over again. God is a loving benevolent forgiving God, not the hellfire and damnation Being they want you to believe He is...
2007-09-22 13:54:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
I don't think the concept of hell is moral. I think Hell is a religious invention created by man to make people fearful and comply with the wishes of authority. If there is a hell - this is IT.
2007-09-22 13:48:55 · answer #7 · answered by phovisi 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I remember how the atheists were tortured in Inferno - Having to spend eternity buried above the ground, awake..no...I don't think a loving God could overlook a individuals good deeds even if he/she was atheist.
Hell also became a big idea during the middle ages. It was a good control mechanism of the people. Modern day hell was shaped by some very shiftless priests. People would go to church just to hear the fire and brimstone...It was like a good horror movie.
2007-09-22 13:46:41 · answer #8 · answered by CherryCheri 7 · 2⤊ 7⤋
I just don't get how God considers nonbelief as important as being a good person. Especially considering he has given us no actual evidence of his existence. Seems like a pretty flimsy pretext for an eternity of burning. Makes burning for witchcraft seem like a just punishment.
2007-09-22 13:51:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
Instead why don't you consider why you won't accept. Any sin controlling this decision is not worth status of your eternal placement. God's Spirit = life and the 'flesh' (the self independence) = w/o God.
2007-09-22 13:49:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋