...when that's what we want? Hell is supposed to be a bad place to be. Where does the bad part come in?
2007-10-23 03:16:52 · 26 answers · asked by Meat Bot 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Liv E: To convert them to Atheism.
2007-10-23 03:39:18 · update #1
You want to be separated from someone you don't believe in!!
You got what you want.
If that is what you want. Why for whatever reason do you ask the Christians on and on and on the same questions about those same things you claim don't believe! you still don't understand. Poor kid.
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Ha ha funny. Really that is a good one. Thanks.
To convert them! Isn't the word 'Convert' is such a taboo in Atheism! Don't you want to be left alone, and not converted! or, is it just the Atheist who have that right, and everyone else should mind what they believe!
Who is them that you want to convert to Atheism! just the Christians!
Oh, that is sweet. As much as honorable as it may sound to you. Thanks meat, but no thanks. If I am wrong I will deal with it, just as you if you are wrong.
2007-10-23 03:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by Bravado Guru 5 · 11⤊ 3⤋
No Dream- When Adam & Eve were told that in the day they ate of the Fruit they would Positively Die there was No talk of torture at all. God did not mention anything about Burning in Hell etc. He was Told" From Dust you are and to Dust you will Return".. If Burning People was God's Idea for Punishment- don't you think Adam and Eve would have been the First Casualties of that sordid Belief? Somehow people are misunderstanding the Bible in a Big way.
2016-05-25 02:19:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell was created for satan and the fallen angels. It will not be a fun place to party and have a good time. Read the Bible and you will see that hell is no place you would ever want to go. Don't take a chance with your eternal soul. Turn to God and try living according to His plan for you. This life is where we make the choices that deturmine where we will spend eternity. Don't gamble with your eternal soal. Hell at the very least will be an eternity of wishing you could go back and do things differently but then it will be too late.
2007-10-23 03:50:22 · answer #3 · answered by Maxwell 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sometimes I feel like I am constantly repeating myself. Please pay attention, and it would do you right to search the forum before posting the same question over and over again, you know? Here you go anyway for your own benefit:
Gehenna, Hades, Sheol, Hell all equal the common grave for mankind.
The mix up came with misleading teachings that when the older egyptians disposed of DEAD bodies by throwing them into a fiery pit to burn so they wouldn't cause illness or even death because of their decaying process. Over time this procedure became distorted to represent "hell fire" as being where "bad people go" where they would burn forever.
So you see that hell is the common grave for mankind and is not a place of eternal fiery damnation for mankind. It, Gehenna, Hades was where dead bodies were thrown to burn them to ashes, much like that of the "cremation" techniques (procedures).
Hope this has helped, and remember, the Bible is for intelligent people (anyone who uses common sense and their smartness) and there are many parables, and examples used throughout the Bible. An intelligent one can make sense of the entire Bible through much prayer and the holy spirit.
I GUESS YOU HAVE A POINT BECAUSE "SMART" PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO DIE. THEY WANT TO LIVE ON A PARADISE EARTH UNDER GOD'S TRUE HEAVENLY GOVERNMENT INSTEAD OF MANMADE GUBMINTS THAT HAVE FAILED US YEAR AFTER YEAR, CENTURY AFTER CENTURY. It is true that when this occurs all of wicked humans will have been removed from the earth already, so YOU MIGHT HAVE A POINT.
"Smart" people want to LIVE in peace free from evil and wickedness; stupid people don't.
2007-10-23 03:27:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Happiness would denote at least to some extint the existance of thought, emotion and physiology to have either. Separation from God means anihilation. You can't think if you are not. If you can't think..then you can't be happy or not happy. Hell is not torture...hell is derived from the norse name for the pagan god of the underworld "hel" and gets it idealogy from Dante's Inferno of the 14th or so century. Hades is the greek version of the underworld. Gehenna is an actual place used to alagorically describe the state of the world as its being destroyed along with all those that are not "of God". Simpy put...when you read the term Hell in the Bible it should read..."Sheol"...which means grave, death..or to be covered over. Forgotten so to speak. Apart from God...we are nothing. We were nothing before He brought us into being and that's what we will again be if we are not His on that last day. You are choosing eternal life or eternal death. Destruction is swift and final...not some prolonged agony. That version of "hell" is not biblically supported at all. The most famous verse in the Bible sums it right up...
JOHN 3:16 ~
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not PERISH, but have everlasting life.
If you don't want to be with God then you don't get to be at all. That's what the soul is...you as an individual being. Not your spirit...cuz you don't have one. You are alive by the Divine Breath of God. It is through Him, by Him and for Him that you live, move and have your being (soul). If you reject Him..then you are undone. Love in Christ, ~J~
2007-10-23 03:29:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
If you had half the nightmares I have, you wouldn't consider hell a good place to be. I want you to participate in a little experiment. Go into a very quiet room , in the dark for as long as you can. And then ask yourself if this is what you want to do for eternity.
2007-10-23 04:12:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because torment comes down to privation. You have needs. Physical & emotional comfort, mental and bodily integrity, a sense of hope that gets you out of bed each morning to face a new day. Negate those. Take them all away, and you have torment. Hell is the place where all you have borrowed from God without asking is finally taken from you, all your comforts, all your hope, all the benefits of rationality you now enjoy, all gone. Your needs are eternally unmet in hell because only God can meet them. You are His creation, and your soul will have no rest until it rests in Him.
2007-10-23 03:39:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is a so much more to consider here,separation from God will be a terrible thing indeed especially as we will all see God at our personal judgment and the realization that God is incredible love will be so crystal clear.
Hell is the total absence of love, and immense hatred,loneliness and inner anger such as we could never imagine on this earth,so regardless of whatever tortures there are in Hell this alone makes it a nightmare that never ends.
2007-10-23 03:26:03 · answer #8 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
It's because Christians believe that God is the source of all love in this world - to everyone, not just the Christians.
Imagine a life without love or without hope. This is truly hell.
People do not know what it's like to be completely separated from God because they haven't been yet.
2007-10-23 03:27:51 · answer #9 · answered by Nathan K 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Because absolute separation from God means absolute separation from all that is godly - goodness, virtue, beauty, contentment, satisfaction, love, hope, etc. - and therefore having nothing but the absolute presence of the opposite - evil, ugliness, unrest, unfulfillment, hatred, despair, etc. Atheists in this life may claim to be apart from God, but they still freely enjoy much of what God has provided. In hell, there will be no access to anything godly.
2007-10-23 03:27:14 · answer #10 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋