If God loves us why would he let us burn forever in eternal fire?

Question

I would not wish this pain upon anyone does this mean I have more compassion than God?

So if I go through life being a morally good person but I do not accept that God created me I should still suffer forever?

So what your saying is there is no hell, just not the chance to exist and live forever. Do you believe a person who sins is punished after death or simply not allowed to live on. I have not accepted God into my life but I see no reason why I should suffer for this. Throughout my life I have looked for a sign and received nothing. Religion seems like some cruel game, where by if you get the choice wrong you suffer. Is all religion not just mans way of trying to reach God. I would love to believe in heaven, rather than thinking all my loved ones become maggot food but I see no reason to doubt my belief.

Answer 1

Beloved keeping learning from the Lord, do not believe this doctrine of devils. Did Jesus get wipped and beat forever? No. So it would make since that hell will burn people according to their sins against God. Jesus took the place of the sinner so that this penalty even death would not be his fate. Think about what Jesus said," For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that who so ever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life". Now focus on the word (perish) it means to come to an end. Also listen to the words "believes in him shall have eternal life". So that means without him we are not immortal contrary to what is being preached by clergy in alot of churches. There can not be both immortals and people that perish in hell at the same time. Either its immortal souls thats burns forever or its mortal souls that come to an expected end. Hell has been taking out of context in the scriptures to support a pagan belief introduced by pagan people in the church. Just like heaven is a place where people float on clouds and is full of people of one race. Not true at all...... These are the abominations in the cup of the Mother whore that is guilty of murdering saints(revelations 14;17;18) please read for a better understanding of what the scriptures say. Also check out www.amazingfacts.com/bibleinfo.com.

Answer 2

"Is man more just than God?"
Job asked this question a few thousand years ago. For one thing, those who actually study their Bible will find that hellfire will not burn for eternity. It does not currently exist, but it will at the end of the Millennium, at which time the wicked of all ages will be totally consumed by fire out of Heaven. They will not be "tortured forever". To believe so is to believe that sin is stronger than God! No, God will completely destroy all sin and sinners, never to exist again.
The popular Christian view of Hell and the state of the dead comes from spiritualism, not the Bible. The belief that people "go on living" in a spiritual form after they die is the lie that Satan told Eve in the Garden of Eden - "You shall not surely die." Everywhere in the Bible where death is spoken of, it is described as a kind of unconscious sleep. When people die, they have no awareness of anything going on about them, and they are certainly not in either Heaven or Hell. They are "asleep". When Christ returns, the Saved dead will be resurrected into a physical body, while the Wicked dead will remain dead for another 1,000 years, until the 2nd resurrection (of damnation).
As prophecy has predicted, there has been a sharp increase in the belief in spiritualism and New Age philosophy in the End Times. Even Christians will be deceived, and many have. Satan will use this belief in spiritualism that is dominant throughout the world to perform miracles and sway many people who don't know the Truth.
Some people will try to use certain Bible verses that talk about an "unquenchable fire" to describe Hell. What does "unquenchable" mean? It means it cannot be put out; it doesn't mean that it burns forever. Eventually, it will go out on its own. Also, the same term is used in the OT to describe the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Are S&G still burning today? Of course not. The Bible tells us that the wicked will be "ashes under our feet". They will be permanently dead - not tortured forever.

Answer 3

Pablo, That is an excellent question and one many ask. The fact is that the hellfire doctrine has no basis in scripture. Samar is right. It's origins go back to Norse and Greek mythology.

The true condition of the dead is mere non-existence. King Solomon made that plain at Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10. What about sinners? Well we are all sinners and at Ezekiel 18:4, we are told that "the soul that is sinning it itself will die." At Romans 6:7 we are told that "he had that died has been ACQUITTED of his sins."

Food for thought: The suffering of Job is legendary. He lost his 10 children, his servants, his flocks, etc. And yet at Job 14:13 he asks Gpd conceal him from his suffering in HELL. That request makes sense only in the context of a man who knows death would bring an end to his suffering. It makes no sense if he believed hell was a place of eternal fire torment.

I'd be glad to discuss further via email. Or you can learn more by going to the link below.

Answer 4

What Has Happened to Hellfire?
WHAT image does the word "hell" conjure up in your mind? Do you see hell as a literal place of fire and brimstone, of unending torment and anguish? Or is hell perhaps a symbolic description of a condition, a state?

For centuries, a fiery hell of excruciating torments has been envisioned by religious leaders of Christendom as the certain destiny for sinners. This idea is still popular among many other religious groups. "Christianity may have made hell a household word," says U.S.News & World Report, "but it doesn't hold a monopoly on the doctrine. The threat of painful retribution in the afterlife has counterparts in nearly every major world religion and in some minor ones as well." Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jains, and Taoists believe in a hell of one sort or another.

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_01.htm

Answer 5

Fire consumes so if we can live in the flames then we are not being consumed so the fire cannot harm or hurt, hell fire is not what religion teaches. In the bible hell fire was the tip that was burning day and night in the valley of hinnom south of Jerusalem where the unclaimed bodies where thrown and the belief was that a body burned could not be raised back to life so it was a torment to anyone who did not have a burial site for themselves, it no longer burns there, the other hell is the grave where the dead are buried, since all the bodies that are cremated or buried are dead God sends no living person to hell for torture.

Answer 6

God does not send people to the "eternal fire" we chose to go there. It is our choice and God respects our freewill. God loves us so much that He gave us a way out through the death of His son Jesus Christ. That is what Christianity is all about. It is not us trying to become better people by moral living but understanding we are immoral and are in need of a savior from God.

Answer 7

Priests understood that the best way control people was to scare them "to death". Hell doesn't exist, it doesn't make sense if we are God's children and God is forgiveness.
In the middle ages, you could pay for your sins, that's how the clergy got so rich. Hell is just an invention for the manipulation of the masses. That said, you have a conscience and one should do right because it's the right thing to do, not because you're afraid of going to hell. Jesus didn't threaten people with hell, instead he led by example and love, I don't think God and Jesus would ever give up on any of their children.

Answer 8

No. Those who have not had a salvation experience ususally feel that way. God is a Holy God that loves us deeply (He created us to have fellowship with Him) and gives us a choice to have relationship with Him, which that alone is a blessing imeasurable to decribe even in this life. To burn forever in a place where the worm never dies is the reward for those who refuse to turn from their wicked ways and trust and believe in Him

Answer 9

First of all.

1John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

And for that, God wants all men to be saved.

1Timothy 2:3 This is right, and is pleasing in the sight of God our Saviour,

1Timothy 2:4 who is willing for all mankind to be saved and come to a full knowledge of the truth.

Why there is punishment?

That is God's justice.

2Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

2Thessalonians 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

Answer 10

Excuse me but I say nobody deserves everlasting joy or everlasting pain for a few decades of being good or bad, lets remember that there was no Bible till Constantine I the self proclaimed Christian Emperor put all the books he chose together, after that there were centuries in which the Catholic Church forbade anyone to read the Bible which was written in latin by the way then the german lutherans started printing it for the common men, so can we be sure that nothing was changed in all those centuries?