Exactly! But, you wouldn't realize that when you're there, since you won't have a memory. How else will God make us forget about those in hell? I wouldn't want to be in heaven if I knew that my Buddhist friend was burning in hell.
God won't erase our memories, if he did we'd all be robots. If he wanted all of ut be robots he wouldn't of given us free will. I don't know how God can do this wihtout erasing our memories, but he will. We are finite with out mind and our ideas, he is infinite.
Why did God make mankind so weak against sin and Satan?
Mankind made themsevles weak to sin and satan. Once upon a time God and Mankind lives together, then man decided not to obey God. When they did that, they became even weaker to sin than before. Dis-obeying God makes us weak to sin and satan.
Hitler and the Nazi's were Catholics.
But if they were saved, they would have the Holy Sprit convcicting them not to murder millions of jews. Either, Hitler had never recieved salvation, or he was mentall;y ill. People who are saved don't murder millions upon millions of people. The Bible clearly tells us not to.
Then why did God create Satan and Hell? Why didn't He give mankind the wisdom and strength to overcome sin in the beginning?
God created Lucifer, one of the most beautiful angels. An arch angel. Then, Lucifer was filled with pride, and thought he should sit on the Throne of God. Then Lucifer became satan. Again, God didn't create satan, he created Lucifer. Lucifer, because of his own free will, created satan.
Originally hell was meant for the devil and his demons only.
And God did give us the wisdom and strength sesne the begining. But many people decide not to use their wisdom/strenght. Adam and Eve both had, to be blunt, dumb attacks. Ignorant attacks, and directly dis-obeyed God. We have the power to overcome sin, only with Jesus. Many people in the OT overcame sin. The sad thing is, many people want to give into sin. They like sin. Christians, God fearing people don't. Because they hate what God hates, sin.
If God is going to erase our memories in heaven, what kind of gift is that really? Will we forget all of the bad things that happened to us in life, and will we forget about the people we know who are burning for eternity in hell? These are questions that I've been struggling to answer.
Your assuming the God erases our memories. I honestly believe he won't. Refer to what I wrote at the top of this post.
Didn't Jesus say that faith alone is not enough, and that we must do what the Father wants?
Yup he did. But having sincere faith leads to doing what God wants. Good works are a manifestations of our salvation. The Bible says we will know a Christian by their fruit (works).
That sounds nice, but I don't think that believing is enough, even Satan and demons believe that God exists.
Yes but there's a difference here. The demons don't believe in Jesus for their salvation, if they did, they wouldn't of fallen in the first place. They 'know if his existence' because they've dealt with him first hand. They don't have faith in him, the have proof of him.
I personally the word 'believe' refering to the demons was a bad translation.
I agree that faith in Jesus is the first step, but faith doesn't always produce good works. Look at Hitler, he was Catholic, what good did he do? Hitler thought he was doing Gods will:
Again, I don't believe a true Christian will mass murder million upon millions of people. Either he was mentally ill, or not a real Christian.
The Bible says that God created evil, is the Bible a lie? I don't believe that it is. Even if we say that man or Satan created evil, God still created mankind and Satan in such a way that He knew would result in their creation of evil, and He still chose to create them in the way that He did.
1Jo 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
You know, I believe it hurts god ALOT knowing some of his children will go to hell. I don't know why God does it, but I do know it his infalliable plan. We have to trust in him to do what is best. He is 100% holy, how can he do anythign wrong or evil?
What good has come from AIDs? Millions of innocent lives have been lost because of the AIDs virus.
Millions of innocent people have died, not been lost. We see death as bad too many times. We see death as an end. But it is a begining. Who knows? Maybe the majority of those millions are right no in Heaven having the itme of their life. Again, we must trust in God.
But God created Satan knowing that he would be this way, and He chose to create him anyway.
If God didn't allow people to do bad, we wouldn't have free will. If he forced everyone to love him, that wouldn't really be love would it.
Nick, I truly hope that you're right...
Have faith in God, and everything will be ok. Eventually, everything will be perfect.
