This is one my reasons why I am a ex-Christian. I dont get why god will send some one to hell forever and ever. I began to think about the subject a little and I thought about the people who were in hell. I wonder how could god let people burn forever and still be called a forgiving god? Now before any one talks about the really really bad people like Hittler there are some Chruchs out that there that say that if your gay you will brun, if your not a Christian you will burn like Ann Frank one the Jews Hittler killed(I like to point out I am not sure if that last one is what the religon really teaches but just wanted to prove a point) and then there are people were bad but I dont think desverd to be in hell forever. I began to relize I was beggning to show mercy to some of the people that God would not show any (I only think a few should stay down there forever like Hittler and NOT Ann Frank). If I am willing to show more compasion for every one I just named then god then somthing is really really wrong! God should show more mercy and love then me (because I am human, he is god,he should be greater then man meaning he should out do people when comes to love and forgivness), why should hell last for ever? Would this not make Christianty a fear base religon?
hi, i didn't come to Christ out of fear, nor have many others, some do.
As to hell being eternal, it's cause God has so ordained.
Why? God made it so
Not sure how any created being (man) thinks they are better than God, but such is the deception some are given to.
Not sure how any created being (man) thinks they are more compassionate than God. God created us, and is the one who gave us our compassion.
No one wants anyone to go to hell, no humans, except those who are very hurt and angry and then the sickos.
I would have to be quite studied in OT to fully grasp how sin is viewed by God and I'm not, and even if were,don't know that it's fully explained but we know much from the law as examples how sin was dealt with or was supposed to be dealt with.
We know all sin is evil, and all wrongdoing is sin.
Bible says God wants all to know forgiveness.
He provided the way to forgiveness.
In the OT the hebrews had God right there, in their midst and still despised, rejected and did not believe in him, meaning did not put their faith in him, they knew he exists, but none the less rejected God.
I never thought of God my whole life, until shortly before coming to Christ. So, dont' fully grasp why at 33 I believed but I did. Though through a funeral did observe something that led me to the church of the pastors doing the funeral, and then led me to Christ. Very much while not understanding what was going on with me.
We don't know I think why unforgiven sin merits eternal suffering but it does in God sight, so is what will occur.
God is more merciful than any created being and more fogiving than any created being, so for whatever reason that eternal suffering will occur, we don't know again, but God does.
That's why we come in faith. Much we don't know, but we walk by faith.
But again, for anyone to think themselves better than God really is a decietfulness occuring in that person, tho unaware, they are saying I am my own god, whther aware or not. satan is a deciever and liar. Not all can be blamed on him, but his work I gather is to keep many from Christ, and does so well.
Romans 1 says men are without excuse. So even tho I never thought of God until right before coming to Christ, I was without excuse.
I believe we are born knowing God and as we get older suppress that knowledge, as makes sense to me reading romans one, as what God says it men suppress the knowledge of God. Since i have no recollection ever of God, means that after I grew some, whatever knowledge I had I suppressed and went my own way. I had no one ever tell me about God, but even those with Christian parents, can become atheists.
Dont' understand it all, just glad I am in Christ, and don't know how I lived before without Him and desperately pray for those I love and those I don't love to know Him.
blessings,
tapero