and love is strong than fear,and hate,and Hell,then,shouldn't he be able to just save them?
2007-11-29 22:09:08 · 19 answers · asked by Life goes on... 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I guess if they made their bed, they have to sleep in it.
2007-11-29 22:13:44 · answer #1 · answered by †Evonne† 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a couple of options here. You can deny the existence of hell; you can maintain God's love, but by definition he must be sad in casting his own creation into hell, when he created it in the first place (therefore God is schizophrenic); you can make the whole thing one big mystery and avoid the issue; or you could take the atheist position and deny God and hell.
One other option exists -- that of the guilt of mankind under a federal representation of Adam and the total inability of man to look to God for salvation. That would make God completely righteous -- and glorified -- in his punishment. We do not deserve his love. God does not owe anyone salvation. But somehow, for some reason, he reached out to a remnant Israel in the Old Testament, and a remnant "new Israel" in the New Testament, saving some through the shedding of blood for remission of that sin, and giving us his own son as a sacrificial lamb. That takes love.
2007-12-02 00:51:06 · answer #2 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not want slaves or robots. God wanted children. God had to give us free will. Jesus said you could speak a word against the son of man and be saved, but you could not deny the holy spirit of truth and be saved. In other words, if you are doing something self-destructive and you refuse to admit it when someone points it out to you, you will continue on your path of self-destruction and no one, not even God, can save you.
God reaches out to everyone, all the time, in every way they can accept --- but those who constantly turn the other way ultimately pay the price. I'm sure this pains God more than anyone else, but it is one of the constraints even he must abide by if he is to have children who love him of their own free will.
I'm not saying God is required to love everyone. I'm saying God is loving because it's God's nature to love, and that God loves us the way a parent loves a child. However, I remember one time that I, as a child, was so frightened and angry that I withdrew into myself and would not open up to anyone. I had pulled away and no one could reach me without using force or violence, which they would not do. If there is a hell, it would be like that. It would be the result of one's own choice to deny love and truth, to deny God and reject God's efforts to reach out to us.
2007-11-30 06:35:33 · answer #3 · answered by Michael S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indeed, James speaks of save a soul in James 1:21... 5:20; Which is to say grace an Adamic legalist (1Cor 15) trusting in law (Jn 5) worketh wrath (Rom 4) for eternal salvation. How silly if law is non-eternal, imperfect, and corruptible.
Flusing law as dung takes care of fear, hate, hell, and death.
2007-11-30 06:23:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Those who respect God in an honorable manner receive His unconditional love which is through Christ. Christians rarely discuss the short comings of our great hero, David of the Old Testament but he actually had his own captain, who was very valiant, executed in the guise of warfare so that David could marry the captain's wife Bathsheba. David repented but that was horrible also David was a polygamist. The polygamist thing got him in trouble but notice how God kept David. God's love and forgiveness is bountiful but He does chastise us for our folly. As far as forgiving someone in Hell, I would not be willing to gamble on that one.
2007-11-30 06:20:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
What? God to save those that continously chose to Hate God and live lives their own ways? That would make God silly and meaningless.
Get the right choice while youre alive. Receive Christ as your only Saviour and GOD of your life, AND you shall be saved.
2007-11-30 06:24:34 · answer #6 · answered by Potter'sClay-Isa 64:8 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First off, God gave us all the power to choose between right and wrong. Therefore, when we decide to choose wrong and suffer from it He makes us understand the folly of our decision. Yes, He can save us from ourselves but do we want to be saved? Do we even bother to listen to Him?
For example, if i tell you smoking isn't good for you and you insist on smoking anyway and you die from cancer would that be my fault? I, after all, tried to save you but did you want to be saved?
It works just the same with God. However, He still gives us an option even for those in "hell". He has given us the option to recognize our errors and we can ask Him for forgiveness. It is now up to us to do what we think would be good for us.
By the way, there is no hell. Hell is what you make it...your state of mind when you pass from this world.
2007-11-30 06:30:04 · answer #7 · answered by Kinakin Kid 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because god cannot save himself from heaven.
Heaven could the worst place to live where bigotry and foolish doctrines flourished
2007-11-30 06:52:12 · answer #8 · answered by pwd.alforque 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...pal, hell is empty right now, because we and the death men's souls have to wait for the Judgement Day. If you believe that Jesus is your savior and Lord then you shall go to heaven, if you don't believe then your soul shall go to hell. (matthew 25:31-46)
By the way, you are not a devil right? because a devil is an ex-angel....
God bless you...
2007-11-30 06:25:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its a fairytale why ask such a silly thing its like trying to get behind the meaning of humpty dumpty
2007-12-02 20:07:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because He respect your decision. The your last final decision.
The Love of our God is warming an pleasant for those who are in heaven and is burning for those who are in hell.
2007-11-30 06:14:42 · answer #11 · answered by krabul 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋