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On wishing there were no Hell (moved)
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<blockquote data-quote="DavidPL" data-source="post: 68414773" data-attributes="member: 379488"><p>I don't think that it is wrong of you to wish that hell did not exist because I don't think God wants to send people to hell and that's why He is so quick to forgive if we accept Him and repent. We will never fully be able to understand certain things and part of being a Christian is putting your faith in God rather than your own understandings. The existence of hell absolutely troubles me because I know that place will not be empty and all those who are without Christ will go there. Feelings are never sinful, however what we do with those feelings may lead to sinful behavior. Personally, I don't believe in a physical hell because I think that our physical presence is here on earth and our spirit will either be going to heaven or hell. It seems that the Bible is using fire as a metaphor, rather than a literal definition because throughout the Bible fire has always been symbolic of refinement, not punishment. God sends people away from Him because they are not His children unless they have accepted Christ as their savior, and as such they are descendants of Adam and are under the full penalty of the law for which they could never do enough good works to get themselves out of. However when they accept Christ they are adopted away from Adam and given to God and at that point they have accepted the sacrifice that Christ made for them and are now found innocent. That's why God says salvation is through grace, not works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DavidPL, post: 68414773, member: 379488"] I don't think that it is wrong of you to wish that hell did not exist because I don't think God wants to send people to hell and that's why He is so quick to forgive if we accept Him and repent. We will never fully be able to understand certain things and part of being a Christian is putting your faith in God rather than your own understandings. The existence of hell absolutely troubles me because I know that place will not be empty and all those who are without Christ will go there. Feelings are never sinful, however what we do with those feelings may lead to sinful behavior. Personally, I don't believe in a physical hell because I think that our physical presence is here on earth and our spirit will either be going to heaven or hell. It seems that the Bible is using fire as a metaphor, rather than a literal definition because throughout the Bible fire has always been symbolic of refinement, not punishment. God sends people away from Him because they are not His children unless they have accepted Christ as their savior, and as such they are descendants of Adam and are under the full penalty of the law for which they could never do enough good works to get themselves out of. However when they accept Christ they are adopted away from Adam and given to God and at that point they have accepted the sacrifice that Christ made for them and are now found innocent. That's why God says salvation is through grace, not works. [/QUOTE]
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