Love the Lord, or go to hell

[believeume]

Help me understand, is the title statement true or false?

 

[civilwarbuff]

Help me understand, is the title statement true or false?

What do you think scripture says and where does it say it?

 

[Neogaia777]

Of course, most people would love him even more if there was no hell, but, I love him the same, regardless, the real question should be, because there is a heaven and a hell, do you still love God, even if, no, when, you see him send people to and throw them into hell...?

God Bless!

 

[believeume]

What do you think scripture says and where does it say it?

Hmm, I'd say it's the over all premises. I mean if you don't love God where else do you go? There's only 2 places in the end.

 

[believeume]

Of course, most people would love him even more if there was no hell, but, I love him the same, regardless, the real question should be, because there is a heaven and a hell, do you still love God, even if, no, when, you see him send people to and throw them into hell...?

God Bless!

Ooo, no I couldn't.

But is that before or after I'm in heaven. Because how can he not know while you were on earth you wouldn't love him in heaven while others were in hell.

 

[ravindraneee]

Help me understand, is the title statement true or false?

What's the point of this question?

 

[ViaCrucis]

There's only 2 places in the end.

Is that actually true?

"I also maintain that those who are punished in Gehenna are scourged by the scourge of love. For what is so bitter and vehement as the punishment of love? I mean that those who have become conscious that they have sinned against love suffer greater torment from this than from any fear of punishment. For the sorrow caused in the heart by sin against love is sharper than any torment that can be. It would be improper for a man to think that sinners in Gehenna are deprived of the love of God. Love is the offspring of knowledge of the truth which, as is commonly confessed, is given to all. The power of love works in two ways: it torments those who have played the fool, even as happens here when a friend suffers from a friend; but it becomes a source of joy for those who have observed its duties. Thus I say that this is the torment of Gehenna: bitter regret. But love inebriates the souls of the sons of Heaven by its delectability." - St. Isaac of Nineveh

-CryptoLutheran

 

[civilwarbuff]

Hmm, I'd say it's the over all premises. I mean if you don't love God where else do you go? There's only 2 places in the end.

Then it sounds as though you answered your own question....

 

[Greg J.]

Without context it is hard to give an answer to the OP question. You can't love God by making a choice. But you can make choices that will lead you to salvation. However, loving God, as the term is usually used, is not required for salvation.

 

[believeume]

Without context it is hard to give an answer to the OP question. You can't love God by making a choice. But you can make choices that will lead you to salvation. However, loving God, as the term is usually used, is not required for salvation.

You're not saying loving God is not a free choice, are you?

That does not sound like a two way relationship.

 

[believeume]

Then it sounds as though you answered your own question....

Not quite.

 

[Greg J.]

You're not saying loving God is not a free choice, are you?

That does not sound like a two way relationship.

You can do loving acts out of a heart of love or out of a heart of stone. How do you choose to have a loving heart?

 

[believeume]

What's the point of this question?

Make you think, and help you help me find answers to more difficult apologetic questions.

 

[believeume]

Is that actually true?

"I also maintain that those who are punished in Gehenna are scourged by the scourge of love. For what is so bitter and vehement as the punishment of love? I mean that those who have become conscious that they have sinned against love suffer greater torment from this than from any fear of punishment. For the sorrow caused in the heart by sin against love is sharper than any torment that can be. It would be improper for a man to think that sinners in Gehenna are deprived of the love of God. Love is the offspring of knowledge of the truth which, as is commonly confessed, is given to all. The power of love works in two ways: it torments those who have played the fool, even as happens here when a friend suffers from a friend; but it becomes a source of joy for those who have observed its duties. Thus I say that this is the torment of Gehenna: bitter regret. But love inebriates the souls of the sons of Heaven by its delectability." - St. Isaac of Nineveh

-CryptoLutheran

I think it's true, heaven and hell, oh and the new earth (Yeah I forgot that one)

 

[believeume]

You can do loving acts out of a heart of love or out of a heart of stone. How do you choose to have a loving heart?

It's not like I'm trying to try to know I have a loving heart, eeeh the thought of thinking of thinking of having a loving heart is embarrassing.

No, I just open my heart to people (That's it, end of the story)

 

[Winken]

Make you think, and help you help me find answers to more difficult apologetic questions.

..........except that as a Christian I have no problems with apologetic questions. Answers are written out in the Bible. One has to be Spiritually birthed to pass the answers along.

 

[miknik5]

Help me understand, is the title statement true or false?

Doesn't HE already know who loves HIM and who does not love HIM?

 

[believeume]

Doesn't HE already know who loves HIM and who does not love HIM?

Oh yeah evil point.

 

[com7fy8]

I mean if you don't love God where else do you go?

I think you have a point God has no second-best blessing for us, since He wants His best for all who seek Him.

 

[miknik5]

Evil point?

GOD's?

Or man's?