A Christian Opinion Please!?

Question

I have another Question regarding the bible.I am a Pagan but mean you no disrespect.
I am simply wanting a Christian view on this.
OK~ Armegeddon.....God will put an end to the existance of anyone who has not accepted him and his supposed word ..the bible...right?
God is in many ways our Parent right?
So I am a parent and i can not ever accept that a perfect parent, such as the creator of this world, would ever get fed up with their child and turn their backs on them.
My children may grow to lead lives that i disaprove of and do things i abhor....but i know that i will never give up on them.
They might reject me and go to live with their bioligical father who is a deadbeat dad in every sense of the word and begin to live their lives according to his standards( which are appalling)~ but still i would never reject them as completely as the bible states God will do.
But in Revelations it states there will come a day when the God from the bible will do just that...
Your thoughts on this?

Thanking you for your respectful answers.
Bright Blessings
Ariel

Answer 1

I am a christian and I have had the same thoughts as you. I've asked some of my family and I believe that if a "God" did love us as much as the bible state, what possible reason would he have to "damn" us anywhere? This probably isn't the answer you're looking for but it's the best I have. I haven't quite figured it out. I haven't even figured out if I want to stay christian, I really didn't have a choice and freedom is about choice. So you may, or may not take this as a good answer.

Answer 2

God's desire for people to know Him. And to truly know Him is to love Him and our fellow brothers and sisters around us. We are to even love our enemies. God wants nothing more to have people turn to Him and seek the things that are of love and forgiveness. These are the ways of God. The death of Jesus for all man kinds sin is the ultimate sacrifice. Could imagine if your child gave up his life willingly to suffer a horrible death so others may share in a place like heave (something wonderful) and when you saw your child take the beaten and suffering that Jesus took. Only to have people say that is a nice story but no thanks or to mock what your son did. Would you still give them such a wonderful gift as the Lord is freely offering everyone, the ability to receive forgiveness of all their past sins and to live totally free from a spiritual death.

BETTER YET, would you lwant to live forever with great gifts and wealth and know that you were surrounded by love for eternity and never have to face death. you would not grow old and feel the affects of pain again. No one would hurt you and there was no temptation to sin because sin did not exist. Would you want such a gift and would you want to know the truth about how to sign up? It is the gift that God gave us and to say ," All I have to do is accept what Christ did on the cross and be a good person according to the bible and not the ways of the world." I would say I am a good person anyway so where do I sign. It is in your heart and through prayer. SORRY SO LONG

Answer 3

God does not want any one to perish- how do I know this? Because He sent His Son, Jesus, into the world to pay the price that we could never pay. God is Holy and we all deserve eternal separation from Him. However because He didn't want to abandon us to the grave- He gave up His son- Jesus hung on the cross and shed His innocent blood so that we can live with Him. If God wanted to reject us , He would have rejected us all. Earthly parents are not holy, even the best of them- and we are not God either- God is almighty, Holy, and loving- if He gave us what we deserve, Jesus would never of died, and we all would be in hell, . The cross is proof of His love for His children. We choose where we go- because of the Cross we do have a choice- what a merciful God we have!

Answer 4

Since you kindly and respectfully asked for a "Christian opinion" I will respectfully and as tactfully as possible, share my Christian opinion.

For the most part, I agree with what you say. A parent will tolerate much from the child they love and never turn their back on their child. I too am a parent and have learned to accept the differences I have with my adult children.

Where you and I would disagree is where you seem to want God to be that way. You don't think God of the Bible is like that and therefore God is wrong. (If I understand the thoughts you shared, and I think I do) God is exactly like that with His children! He never turns His back on those who are truly His children. But not every person is His child. You used the Bible to make your case, so I will do the same to show you that to be a child of the God of the Bible, it is conditional.

"Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—"
John 1:12

We must chose to become His child, we are not born that way. Our "Parent" is the mother or father we have on this earth. To be a child of God requires we come to God on His terms.

Those who don't, in the end will have it their way, they will be forever separted from a relationship with God.

That is my Christian opinion, the one you asked for.

Answer 5

I cannot accept this either. Just like I can't accept the fact that God would place a tree in the Garden of Eden and tell Adam and Eve thay can eat of anything but this tree, and not only expect them not to get curious (when he has made them himself with this craving), but also not already know that this is what will happen. I realize the fallacy in people's interpretation of God's word, and it being passed down orally for generation before being written. Some Christians feel the Bible contains God's word, but you need to apply what you know about God (in your heart) to what may be parables and misguided interpretation. Some will feel I'm a heretic. I appreciate your consideration of my views, however. I don't believe in hell, I believe in spending eternity in the presence of God, or not.

Answer 6

GOD = male , and you know what a male is = BEAST in which is not a man. A beast such as a LION in a documentary , with a bad kind of the sixth-sense , will kills their off-springs in at some of the times. Then , when the expected GOD ( male ) turns again for to be a human , well hah , what will you expected out of HIM.

Answer 7

If you had the same holy standards as God, you would not accept any behavior short of holiness. Realizing that man chose sin, God provided a way out through Jesus. If you reject this way, then you reject God. He does love you and will love you all the way to hell. But you have a choice to redeem yourself through Christ.

Answer 8

Even a parent who would never turn their back on their own child, cannot stop that child from turning its back on the parent. God will never turn His back on any one. Only you can choose to turn your back on Him. God gives us every opportunity to follow Him and His word, but if some one continually turns their back on Him, that is their doing. Can a human parent stop their child going to jail for things they have done that the parent doesn't approve of. The child made that decision, not the parent. It may break the parents heart, but the child ask for a jail sentence because of disobedience.

Answer 9

You have it a little twisted here. It is not God who will give up on anybody, but those people who will give up on God.

If we take your analogy a little further, let's say your children follow after a debased way of life. And their actions eventually lead them to do something that will take their lives. Though you give them lots and lots of warning that they are headed for terrible things, if they do not listen to you, it is not YOU who sends them to their destruction, but themselves.

It is the same with God. He has been warning us of a destructive lifestyle that will take our lives if we do not change. For those who listen to God, change their lifestyle to one of wholesome, healthy, happy and prosperous living, they will be safe from the destruction that is coming. Everyone else will be destroyed with the destruction of the universe.

Ezekiel 33:11 -- Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Answer 10

The whole thing is that God who is merciful is also just. It is his mercy that holds off his just judgement, but that will not be forever. The other point is that people choose to rebel against God. We all have a free will to live as God designed us (in imitation of his love), or we can say no to that and suffer the consequences. It's our choice.