2007-10-01 04:59:49 · 17 answers · asked by Page 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just roving....
2007-10-01 05:00:07 · update #1
Again, one who is so prone to the Rovin' bone, I'll direct you to the book of Dead Milkmen (I am sorry you missed the punk-rock '80s), for all the spiritual answers to the questions ye seek:
God's Kid Brother
Are we not the living proof of the idiot God who placed us here
Are we not his dirty children, his unwashed sons who he holds dear
Are we not the proof that there may've been another creator
If this is the ultimate truth, it had to come out sooner or later
I've looked for the reason why we're here
I've kept on searching 'til it was clear
I've looked for excuses-I can find no other
We must be the product of God's kid brother
Their ivy halls are closed to us
We scrape to survive and we taste the dust
The things that we weren't meant to know
Are spoke of in places where we can't go
So don't tell me you still find it hard to believe
That we were made by a different God
Are we not the proof that there may've been another creator
Let's run to the volcano and toss a virgin in the crater
Maybe there are two Gods
A perfect God who made all those perfect people,
And another God who made the rest of us.
And maybe, just maybe, somewhere there's a heavenly choir
That sings off key
We'll dodge our way through life and hope for something greater
2007-10-01 05:15:46 · answer #1 · answered by outcrop 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Sister Faustina's Vision of Hell
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"I, Sister Faustina Kowalska, by the order of God, have visited the Abysses of Hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence...the devils were full of hatred for me, but they had to obey me at the command of God, What I have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw. But I noticed one thing: That most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell." (Diary 741)
"Today, I was led by an angel to the Chasms of Hell. It is a place of great torture; how awesomely large and extensive it is! The kinds of tortures I saw:
The First Torture that constitutes hell is:
The loss of God.
The Second is:
Perpetual remorse of conscience.
The Third is
That one's condition will never change.
The Fourth is:
The fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it. A terrible suffering since it is a purely spiritual fire, lit by God's anger.
The Fifth Torture is:
Continual darkness and a terrible suffocating smell, and despite the darkness, the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own.
The Sixth Torture is:
The constant company of Satan.
The Seventh Torture is:
Horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies.
These are the Tortures suffered by all the damned together, but that is not the end of the sufferings.
Indescribable Sufferings
There are special Tortures destined for particular souls. These are the torments of the senses. Each soul undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings related to the manner in which it has sinned. There are caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from another. I would have died at the very sight of these tortures if the omnipotence of God had not supported me. Let the sinner know that he will be tortured throughout all eternity, in those senses which he made use of to sin. I am writing this at the command of God, so that no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no hell, or that nobody has ever been there, and so no one can say what it is like...how terribly souls suffer there! Consequently, I pray even more fervently for the conversion of sinners. I incessantly plead God's mercy upon them. O My Jesus, I would rather be in agony until the end of the world, amidst the greatest sufferings, than offend you by the least sin." (Diary 741)
2007-10-01 05:28:54 · answer #2 · answered by morkie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is an rather vast reason that I grew to strengthen into an atheist. A god who forces human beings into existence even whilst he knows on the beginning up of time that they are doomed to hell is a Cosmic Psychopath who merits to burn in his very own hell. And the actuality that some insecure non secular nut is going to grant this a thumbs down skill i might desire to be a lot extra vicious in renouncing Christianity interior the destiny.
2016-10-20 11:44:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are grossly in error in your assumptions. Your question appears to be disingenuous.
Sins against an Infinite Being are not finite.
As you surely are aware man was originally created perfect.
God has made provision for all though He would have remained perfectly righteous if He had left our first parents in judgment. Because He is love He chose not to. That provision necessitated His taking the just punishment on Himself. That required He take upon Himself human nature. There was no other way.
The sentence you speak of will be carried out upon those who impenitently refuse His gracious provision. All manner of sin and blasphemy can be forgiven but willful refusal of the only means of forgiveness clearly renders that impossible. You are a stranger to the knowledge of the awfulness and depths of sin.
Surely you can understand the demands of justice? To slight or despite the infinite suffering of Christ necessitated by your sin, to so treat Him and His sufferings for you, it is only right and just that you be so treated. You cannot complain to be treated as you have treated.
You forget that God is perfect. Perfection cannot be compromised by an imperfect justice. That is why it was necessary for Him to take our human nature and suffer our punishment for us, if we were to be rescued.
Such is the glory of God.
So far, so very far have we fallen from it.
2007-10-01 06:49:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
For the same reason that he sentences imperfect humans he "saves" to infinite joy in heaven for infinite redemption through Christ. (Are you implying God's creation is imperfect, by the way? He created humanity perfect. Go read Genesis chapter 1 vss 27-31.)
2007-10-01 05:15:33 · answer #5 · answered by Annsan_In_Him 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We sentence ourselves by the choices we make:
30th chapter of Deuteronomy, in the 19th verse. I love this verse:
"This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you a choice: life and death, blessings and curses." You've got to make a choice. It's one or the other. There's no in-between. "Now choose life"
2007-10-01 05:19:36 · answer #6 · answered by Kaliko 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you consider the creation story to be a metaphor, then this is a very relevant question. Especially since that means we were not created sinless and that our nature is to sin.
2007-10-01 05:04:39 · answer #7 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If God really did send Imperfect humans to Hell, then he would have to send everybody else to hell.
2007-10-01 05:02:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
He doesn't. We are given a choice. Those who are not able to make a choice, because of a mental disability for example, or young age, are not being send to hell. They'll go to heaven.
2007-10-01 05:04:14 · answer #9 · answered by VW 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
God did not create humans imperfectly, to suggest so is to say that God Himself is imperfect, which He is not.
2007-10-01 05:03:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋