now theres an oxymoron if i'v ever heard one.
so wtf? he is all loving, but he sees that the all loving thing to do on judgement day is to kill everyone that doesnt yet believe in him, even though they havent lived out their full lives in which they may eventually believe.
this doesnt seem very loving or smart to me, what do you think?
i would like to be enlightened please!
2007-11-04 23:04:44 · 30 answers · asked by Kruger, Freddy Kruger 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the whole religion is paradoxical and hypocritical and contradictory...
it's not nice, is it?! killing or torturing people because they don't believe in him? and he's meant to be nice! it's especially unfair on people who were born in non-religious areas and raised outside whichever faith you're talking about, it's not their fault and if they had no missionaries or whatever how are they supposed to know?
2007-11-04 23:25:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well some don't believe it will happen that way. I'm starting to think that the whole lake of fire thing is a purification of evil. Not eternal torment. Also, in the bible, eternal may not be the proper word. Age is sometimes more appropriate as the Jews had no idea about eternity, only ages, at least to start. Maybe after hanging the Greeks for awhile they started becoming more abstract in their thinking.
http://www.tentmaker.org/
http://www.what-the-hell-is-hell.com/
I generally get a bunch of thumbs down for this answer by most Christians but check out the sites I gave and see what you think.
2007-11-04 23:28:56 · answer #2 · answered by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The lions pick off the sickest and/or weakest on the edge of the herd. The lions must eat too. Do you even believe in God? The Bible? Do you believe in Creation? The Fall? I am really happy to share a Creationist's viewpoint, but I'm most unhappy to cast my pearls before er swine. Anyway, there is no Biblical reason to think that God created living things the way they are now. The Fall occurred and the entire earth is under the curse.
2016-04-02 05:46:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen thundercatt9 :-)
To the part of your statement : "doesn't yet believe in Him"...
How would one know "when" a person have already lived their lives to the fullest? Only God knows that. So who are we to say that the person who died whether a believer or not haven't lived his life to the fullest yet or haven't been given the chance to repent and know Christ?
We only have one shot in this world to live as human beings and this is the only chance we have to make a stand for what and who we want to believe and follow (hence thundercatt9's explanation that we are actually the one chosing hell) One chance. Free will. God presents Himself to us in so many ways but since we are all pre occupied with all the "wonderfull things" (earthly pleasures for our earthly bodies) we see in this world, we tend to miss His calling or otherwise, just deliberately ignore Him all together.
One cannot know Christ and still continue to sin. So if anyone thinks he can go on doing all the nasty stuff he wants to do in this world and think just before dying he/she would call on to the Lord and start believing will be saved...think again. God knows our hearts, Jesus will judge based on what's in our hearts.
He is a loving God. He is an all knowing God...but He is also a JUST God.
2007-11-04 23:43:53 · answer #4 · answered by Reese 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Two Gods allegory in both covenants: Galatians 4, and a triple mystery: Colossians 2, written aforetime as a shew: comparative teaching, for our learning: Romans 15.
Or you could say all the worlds a stage for the God shew.
Or you could say the ultimate matrix to navigate, or a hollow deck program with the safety switch off, to make it more real, with all those above watching you, hoping you'll endure unto the end, and make it alive unto God.
Two parts are noted:
- their part: God is evil spoken of
- your part: God is glorified
Much clarity is always required to get it: understanding, and understanding involves seek and find all the allegory clues to solve the mysteries of God, or not and be ignorant; With willful ignorance resulting in all the kingdom of God located within you perishing instead of none perishing by grace, as when the God shew is ended properly by you all, as written.
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2007-11-04 23:38:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some things are just hard to understand, we can not know all the answers. We should have been the ones on the cross, so God saved us a great deal of pain. WE ATLEAST HAVE A WAY OUT OF HELL, God could have just gave us no choice at all. But instead Jesus died on the cross for our sins. Really stop looking at the negative and look at the positives, you would see the loving side of God if you did. I challenge you!!
Also it is your choice that makes you go to hell, God doesn't make you go there it is by your choice.
2007-11-04 23:28:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Do you really want to be enlightened? If so then you are a rarity in the R&S forum where 9 out of 10 non believers post merely to piss those who do believe off. Your sincerity will be shown by which answer you choose.
EDIT: To armarin orion who whinges about the fact that God does nothing to save starving children, what have you done to help them? God gave the job of charity and looking after the poor and hungry to us. How dare you blame Him for that which is within your power to remedy.
2007-11-04 23:25:21 · answer #7 · answered by Arcturus 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The bible is peoples interpreations and not Gods word, they is different Christain faiths because people as a whole and I include leaders of the church in this interprete the bible in different ways and then tell us what they think. Although I have the knowledge to know that I really know nothing in this universe, I do not think that God will kill everyone that does not believe in him, Jesus tells us he loves us like children no father could kill his own child, jesus dyed to show us their was a life after death and not to be afraid, I doubt he said God will kill is all if we do not believe in him on judgement say.
2007-11-04 23:25:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't believe that that's what is going to happen. The problem with trying to interpret Revelation is that it CAN'T be understood at this point, not until the prophecies are actually coming to fruition.
What *I* believe is going to happen (and this is based on what has been revealed to me when I've read Revelation), is WE are going to kill each other. Mankind is going to do it. Not God. God is only going to allow it to happen, because it HAS to happen. Then, when everything comes to a boil, and it CAN'T get any worse...then, Jesus is going to come. And everyone will see Him. Which means, EVERYONE will have that chance to go to heaven.
And then everyone else will be judged (meaning, those who died before that).
If you're familiar with the prophecies of Revelation, would you say that if you saw those things being fulfilled before your eyes that you wouldn't believe? A lot of atheists say they need to see to believe. Well, you'd be seeing it, wouldn't you?
The thing is, though, none of us know what's really going to happen. Revelation will continue to be a mystery until it's time for its fulfillment.
God isn't going to kill everyone, though. Only EVIL will be destroyed. If you're not evil, you have nothing to worry about...except when mankind begins to self-destruct. We're almost there, by the way.
2007-11-04 23:17:15 · answer #9 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
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 sending some creatures to hell.
Another misconception has to do with how one is "sent" to hell. Often objectors 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.
A final 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.
2007-11-04 23:10:16 · answer #10 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 7⤊ 3⤋
He gives you an entire lifetime to do what He asks of us.
You can even do it on you last day and be ok
If you choose to turn your back on your creator, I don't see that as HIM sending you to hell
You would be doing it to yourself.
If there was a pit bull attacking you and I am holding open my door and telling you to come inside to saftey and you refuse to come in, Does that make it my fault?
Satan is attacking you outside, God is holding the door open
2007-11-04 23:27:14 · answer #11 · answered by kenny p 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋