If someone decides not to trust God and instead decides to go it alone, why would God ALLOW that person to be tortured by Satan and die?
Further, why did God prepare Hell for Satan - a place of eternal horror? God created Lucifer, who was closest to God - Lucifer rebelled, etc....
If God creates his creation with a "God shaped hole", and nothing will complete a being unless that Hole is filled with God, why would a creation (whether Lucifer, an angel or a human) reject that?
It seems like a flaw in creation, or at least in the religious philosophy of the world's major religions.
Then God makes the punishment for something that God Himself created, namely, freedom of choice, to be eternal torment?
What creation (Lucifer, Angels or humans) would choose eternal torture? One cannot deny the New Testament Hell, and noting that, makes God seem so very dis-compassionate and intolerant of something inevitable within His own creation.
2007-12-22 07:50:38 · 10 answers · asked by John Galt 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you merely say that mankind is different from the angels and that it's people's choice to go to Hell and rebel - that there are consequences for one's beliefs and actions, then you haven't properly read this question.
2007-12-22 07:52:28 · update #1
Deuce,
If you mean that, then you do not know your Bible.
2007-12-22 08:07:37 · update #2
Why is it that NONE of you (so far) have critical thinking skills?
DO you not understand the essence of the question? The key word is ALLOW.
Why would God ALLOW....
2007-12-22 08:16:18 · update #3
hell is not a place of eternal torture. It is the purifying fire to eliminate sin and sinners, so Yahoshua can make all things new!
2007-12-22 07:54:01 · answer #1 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We need to dig deep for the truth.
Where do the unconverted dead go?
They are dead just like the other dead.
The majority makes the teachings of Christ of no effect by man-made traditions.
One man-made tradition is that "good people go to heaven when they die and bad people go to hell when they die."
This is taught generation after generation, parent to child, in hopes of scaring someone into being good. But, it doesn't work, does it?
Isn't it time we transcended the fables of childhood?
No one has gone to heaven except the Son of man (John 3:13).
And hell?
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Where are the people who have died?
They are in their graves!
"Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation" (John 5:28-29).
The King James "damnation" is from the Greek word "krisis" meaning separating and contesting.
The "contesting" takes place in a second physical life after the 1000 years. The vast majority of mankind is not being called now. They are neither lost nor saved.
Some of the ones who are "contesting" in the future will still not repent. And they will cease to exist. The ones who do repent will be given eternal life. The promise from God through Christ is eternal life, not heaven.
People in this life who have already repented will be given bodies that do not die (1 Corinthians 15:52-54). The same thing will happen to people called later. They will have their chance for salvation at that time. Most will embrace it and thereby secure eternal life for themselves.
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2007-12-22 07:55:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you know many people think that God controls people. When God created Satan, he knew what he was going to do. HE wanted to give us the choice between good and evil."I sit before you life and death choose life." You might recall that verse. I don't know the exact location but whatever. Satan wanted to be better than God. He chose to leave Heaven. And quite frankly I think this is a dumb question. Are you a christian. It's humans choice to follow God. It's hell or heaven. There is nothing in between. Oh yean by the way, I did read the question right!!!!!!!!!!
2007-12-22 07:59:54 · answer #3 · answered by DemonKilla23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason for hell and that satan was cast out of heaven is because God is so holy that He cannot be around sin. God doesnt want us to go to hell, but we cant live a life of sin without God as our saviour and still go to heaven. He is not dis-compassionate. He just cant help a person without them letting Him. That is why we are given the choice to become saved, which keeps us from going to hell. God came to earth in human form (aka Jesus) and was tortured and went to hell so that we would not have to, but we have to allow Him to save us from going to hell. I hope you get what I am saying...
2007-12-22 08:02:55 · answer #4 · answered by Nikki D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i understand what you advise. it is often at a loss for words me. when I've asked this comparable question, I continually get an answer alongside the lines of "properly, God supplies everybody the prospect to return to Christ and grow to be Christians. it rather is their own fault in the event that they do no longer decide directly to settle for it." yet i do no longer think of it is an exceedingly solid answer. God additionally supplies human beings a lot of possibilities to grow to be Muslim, or Hindu, or Buddhist, etc. and those human beings for sure have very solid convictions for his or her faiths besides. finally, we've been given no concrete way of understanding what's the single real faith. the certainty that there are good people who dedicate themselves to the pursuit of doing good, attempt to serve God as they have self belief they could desire to, and spend their lives attempting to do good by others, who in many circumstances decide on or are born into faiths different than Christianity could desire to instruct that it rather isn't any longer a rely of "justice." It does not make experience that a loving God might condemn his little ones to an eternity of torment for basically failing to wager the main suitable holy e book to subscribe too. There are some faiths that have self belief that "hell" isn't a literal place that one is going to after a literal loss of existence. quite, some take a much less literal interpretation and have self belief "hell" is the state of torment one lives in while they do no longer look to be ideal a spiritually balanced existence. i in my view think of that interpretation makes extra experience.
2016-10-09 02:16:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would someone who hates God want to be in His presence?
The Bible doesn't say that Hell's a torture chamber, it says that Hell is the absence of God, and that tortures people.
2007-12-22 07:54:28 · answer #6 · answered by Skunk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try reading the Case for Faith by Lee Strobel. He gives a good theological explanation that might be interesting
2007-12-22 08:52:00 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An all powerful benevolent kind King needs a gallows to show to criminals that he is all powerful and that he is just
Rumi
2007-12-22 07:58:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good point, hey if good people hate bad people does that make them good or bad people?
Can you unscramble scrambled eggs?
2007-12-22 07:54:16 · answer #9 · answered by Exousia Skotos 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071222125405AA0hSNW&r=w
2007-12-22 07:55:50 · answer #10 · answered by and so it begins... 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋