Do you think god puts sinners in hell?

Question

Me, I don't. Why? I think people put themselves to hell. They do not wanna accept the eternal life god has given you to choose. If you don't believe, whatever. I'm just asking for opinions on this.

Oh, and for that one little person down there, PROTESTANT idiots told me so.
(Even though I am a non-denominational.)

Answer 1

No. There is claim that God randomly picks people to be damned as if on a whim. Additionally, they envision that the one sent to hell is absolutely innocent in the matter and had nothing to do with the outcome. On the contrary, Christians have long held that hell is a choice that is made by the one who arrives there (e.g., in Matt. 7:13-14 Jesus says those who choose the broad path walk to destruction). Essentially, then, God does not send people to hell. Rather, people send themselves.

While Christians affirm unequivocally that God is essentially good and loving, it must be emphasized that complementary to these attributes is the characteristic of justice. A loving being that ignored evil or that treated bad acts and good acts equally would not be good. Hence, if God is good, then God is also just - he must treat evil as evil. So, if any creatures merited the existence of hell, then God could remain essentially good and loving by giving them justice, even if that means some of His creatures head to hell.

In answer to 'sporky' ... a major misconception about hell is that it is a place of physical torment and torture. Rather, most Christians have understood these descriptions to capture symbolically that hell is final and utter separation from God's saving grace. Some Christians, like C. S. Lewis, take hell to be a real place where sinful people make themselves miserable. Similarly, thinking of heaven as a place of hedonistic pleasures is wrongheaded as well. In fact, those who choose hell would not enjoy the pleasures of heaven since those pleasures essentially flow from a right relationship with God.

Answer 2

No, I don't believe God does that. I think that is a primitive concept of God. I don't believe there is any real place that is known either as hades or hell. But I do believe people can create their own figurative hell in their life, and they often do right here on good old planet earth. After this sojourn on our world, I think people choose eternal survival or not and this is a choice between them and The Ancients of Days. If all mercy and rehabilitation that is offered to the iniquitous one is finally rejected by the sinner, they will cease to exist and become as if they never were on the Decree of The Ancients of Days (they are not God, but they do this work among other work). The place most people call heaven would not be heaven if iniquitous souls were there wreaking havoc on everyone; and all this is predicated on God's great love and mercy and grace which is everlasting to everlasting.

Answer 3

There is no proof that hell does exist or that it does not exist. But since it's a matter of belief anyway, why not believe in something that makes more sense? If there is an afterlife, then some type of reincarnation makes a great deal more sense (especially in the context of a "loving" god) than the idea of a "one shot, pass-fail" system with the traditional heaven/hell concept

Answer 4

You are right. Sinners put themselves in Hell. God gives us a choice in life. As a matter of fact, Hell was not intended for us. God created Hell for Satan. However, sometimes the choices we make in life end up putting us there too.

Answer 5

The Bible does not teach that the wicked will go to a place of eternal torment to be tortured for all eterenity. Romans 6:23 shows the fate of the sinners.

the Catholic/Protestant concept of hell was adopted from paganism and fleshed out by adapting those concepts from a play by Dante called "The Divine Comedy".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno

http://www.ucg.org/booklets/AD/

Answer 6

I think that we're sometimes just forbidden from entering heaven because the Kingdom of God is clean and anything unclean in there would make the whole place unclean and it would cease to be the Kingdom of God.

Oh, I think that hell is not being able to live in the presence of God.

Answer 7

do you mean the hell thats inside the earth? if your body dies and you are put into a box 6 feet under at what point do you get out of the box and go to a place that is in the sky or in the ground? what do you look like? do you wear clothes? since you have a body, what do you eat? since you have a body that travels do you need oxygen? your way of thinking makes no sense....

Answer 8

Hell is a REAL place
What Jesus tells us...
Many go there – Matt. 7:13
A place of torment – Luke 16:19-31
Everlasting punishment – Matt. 25:46
Everlasting fire – Matt. 25:41
Furnace of fire – Matt. 13:41, 50
Unquenchable fire – Matt. 3:12;
Luke 3:17
Suffering – Matt. 5:29, 10:28
Weeping - Matt. 24:51
What the NT tells us...
Anguish - Rom. 2:8-9
Everlasting - 2 Thes. 1:19
Eternal fire, blackness - Jude 7, 13
Lake of fire – Rev. 14:10; 20:15
What the OT tells us...
Devouring fire – Isa. 33:14
Eternal – Isa. 33:14
Everlasting - Dan. 12:2
Wise avoid it – Prov. 15:24
Keep others from it – Prov. 23:14

Answer 9

Everyone is a sinner. But God puts sinners who have been saved by the blood of Christ in heaven. Only the blood of Christ can save you from Hell.

Answer 10

Yes, were all sinners, but we have accepted god as our savoir and you truly ment it, you won't go to h e double hokey sticks, but you will keep sinning cause we were born sinners and nothing can change that. but beleiving christ can help you not to sin as much. sorry if it is confusing, be being younger than you all think, i didn't get it the first few times, but once jesus is in your heart you will understand.