2007-12-18 06:00:17 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He loves people but not sin. That is why He tells us to repent and that is why He sent His son to pay the penalty of sin for us. But we must accept the payment AND repent
2007-12-18 06:04:27 · answer #1 · answered by Bride of Christ 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They don't. There is no hell. God loves everyone so much that he has banished hell and Christ holds the keys to the gates of Hades. If a soul does not wish to live eternally with God, then that soul is extinguished without pain or torment. Ample time is given in heaven for re-education and for a soul to make an informed decision about this.
2007-12-18 14:11:04 · answer #2 · answered by Soul Shaper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question actually helps us answer the age old queston; Do you believe in destiny or free will?
According to just about every religion on the planet a human being has to make choices throughout a lifetime that will lead to a better place.
Failure to choose according to the doctrine proscribed by an individuals religion leads to a less desirable place.
I think this makes a very strong case for free will.
2007-12-18 14:19:45 · answer #3 · answered by another voice in the crowd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grace and Peace to you. What a lot of people fail to see is that this world is actually Satan's court room or his trial. You see Satan was a covering Cherub, that is one of the angels that guarded Gods throne. Have you ever seen the Ark of the covenant, with the two angels standing face to face with their wings thouching, hand on spear?Well the Bible says that he wanted to set him self upon the throne and is trying to do that, even failing in his first attempt before the flood. Any way God created man, and gave him free will and to every man a measure of faith, and God thouches each man every day some how through his creation:other men or in the tangle of our own minds, to witness of his love and plan for mankind.By each persons own choice they accept or reject that salvation, and good to be with God or go to be in the place prepared for Satan and his angels. Peace
2007-12-18 14:33:33 · answer #4 · answered by strider 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For some reason God gave us the ability to choose our lives and so, we choose where we end up.
Apparently God thinks the joy of voluntary love is worth the risk of people choosing not to love.
I think I'll trust God's judgment on this, especially as the alternative doesn't seem very promising, and anyway I can't change it....
2007-12-18 14:06:27 · answer #5 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they choose not to love God. Therefore, they choose Hell.
2007-12-18 14:17:50 · answer #6 · answered by †Lawrence R† 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell doesn't exist in Nature. The Creator would have no need for a supernatural torture chamber, it is a creation of man's fertile imagination, just as God is.
Pantheist
2007-12-18 14:10:53 · answer #7 · answered by Equinoxical ™ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because God gave us free will to choose what we will believe. We have to believe and accept Jesus as our Savior and repent of our sins. If you choose not to believe in God, how can you expect to go to heaven?
Parents love their kids, but when the kids grow up, parents can't control their children's actions. If their grown-up son drinks and drives, and gets killed in an accident, his parents couldn't keep him from dying, even though they loved him so much and obviously didn't want him to die.
2007-12-18 14:08:30 · answer #8 · answered by kaz716 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Now knowing that God loves everyone, let us Love Him back, I believe that is all he desires - our love, but he cant make you love Him- that has to come from within. It is through Loving God that you learn more about his will for you. When you surrender your will to His will - its through that you may be saved.
2007-12-18 14:14:28 · answer #9 · answered by It's all Good! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they refuse to recognize that He sent His Son Jesus as a living sacrifice so that all may be saved.
God wished no man go to hell. Hell was created for satan and his minions. But if you refuse to accept Christ and go to heaven; where else you gonna go?
2007-12-18 14:05:11 · answer #10 · answered by dwn04142003 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God loves all of HIS children.
Mal 1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
Mal 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
2007-12-18 14:10:42 · answer #11 · answered by joseph8638 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋