It makes no sense to me that there would be a omniscient, all - powerful being watching every move I make and judging all my actions, yet this supposedly loving being will consign me to
eternal hell if I don't believe in him, regardless of the fact he's shown me no evidence he exists or cares about me or the millions of people he supposedly put here, many of whom are starving and dying.
Why does it bother you that I BELIEVE that you will be doomed to
eternal hell if you don't believe in that?
Not exact matches
And what
if on this
eternal timestream, God gets a meanstreak and dumps all of us ghosts into his chamber of horrors he likes to call
Hell... what are you going to do then?
You may have missed hundreds of opportunities to share with souls the fact that they do not have to go into an
eternal oblivion without God (and
if you truly believe in Jesus -
HELL!).
All that listening is wonderful, but it will do them no good
if after they die, they find themselves in
hell, and you who had a chance to tell them how to avoid it, just sat there, not really caring about their
eternal destination, or how you could really give them true peace.
If god were good he would destroy
hell rather than enjoy the
eternal torture forever and ever.
If Mother Theresa (The most angelic person in modern history) had, in her last moments, decided that she believed, not in JC after all, but in the
eternal Bhudda, is she in heaven or
hell?
His point, I believe, was that
IF these things truly did cause one to be thrown into
hell then we should all go around cutting off our limbs to avoid
eternal damnation.
I do NOT care
if «God» himself comes down and threatens me with
eternal hell and damnation.
How about this: Any Christian preaching to a child that their
eternal soul will burn in
Hell if the child doesn't join their «team» is a child abuser.
if he is just preaching just to get people to come to church and mabey know god i can assure you he is a lost man and he is damming many people to an
eternal demise in
hell.
To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and,
if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God;
if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to
hell, which is
eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.
It would have been good
if someone had come along side him and told him that he doesn't have to cut off his hand to escape
hell and receive
eternal life, but only believe in Jesus.
Concerning the «
Eternal, conscious torment in
hell», take what the Bible actually says about
hell and its duration» and
if you do not believe some of the things that some people think is unscriptural and can not find it Scripture just ignore it.
When we use doctrinal statements to determine the
eternal destiny of other people — which is something only Jesus should do — it is not long before we get the idea that
if a person is reprobate and a heretic, it is better to send them on their way to
hell, then to let them stick around and lead others astray.
Stop trying to save my
eternal soul then;
if I burn in
hell for who I love so be it.
Religion has fed you lies and fear, fear of
hell, the fear of
eternal condemnation
if you don't follow some mythical sets of rules.
If there is no heaven, then there is no
hell, but there is surely an
eternal end to those who gain from the suffering and want of others, that sounds good enough for me.
And that
if you do not believe it then you will endure unspeakable
eternal torture in the flames of
hell created by the loving god.
If you feel that an
eternal torment is too harsh, or that a good and loving God would never send someone to
hell, then you've not realized how utterly sinful that sin truly is.
When people believe that the word anathema, or accursed, means «going to
hell when you die,» they think that Paul is wishing he could go to
hell if only all his fellow Israelites would receive
eternal life instead.
@WASP Ok first off I am not scared of death
If I died right now I would be happy to die and go meet GOD face to face and if you do nt believe in GOD thats fine you will burn in hell but i will pray for you that you will come into the light ad see that HE is real and that you can be saved from an eternal fire that is absolutely re
If I died right now I would be happy to die and go meet GOD face to face and
if you do nt believe in GOD thats fine you will burn in hell but i will pray for you that you will come into the light ad see that HE is real and that you can be saved from an eternal fire that is absolutely re
if you do nt believe in GOD thats fine you will burn in
hell but i will pray for you that you will come into the light ad see that HE is real and that you can be saved from an
eternal fire that is absolutely real
The ten people who already have
eternal life and who know the basics of the faith so they can read the Bible and learn to follow Jesus on their own, or the ten people who are standing with one foot in
hell, are wrapped in the chains of the devil, and are pleading and praying to God,
if He is out there, to send help in their time of need?
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If you believe that there's a heaven and
hell and people could be going to
hell — or not getting
eternal life or whatever — and you think that, well, it's not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward... How much do you have to hate somebody not to proselytize?
Christians worship a god they believe sends people to
hell for
eternal torture
if they don't believe in him.
Brian, Well I suppose I do have a fear about what these fantasy beliefs can do to cause trouble all over the world, as
if we don't have enough with real problems of political ills, poverty, diseases and natural disasters; but mostly I am repelled by so many, like eaglemt and the huge number of others like him / her, who preach
hell - fire and
eternal torment for those who don't regard their unproven beliefs as reality.
My own Jesus, They say people in
hell suffer
eternal pain because of the loss of God — they would go through all that suffering
if they had just a little hope of possessing God.
One potential problem I see with that theory having a negative impact on evangelism is that
if there is no
eternal hell, why strive to get people saved?
If there is no eternal hell, they'll simply no longer exist — so if they never accept Christ, it's no big dea
If there is no
eternal hell, they'll simply no longer exist — so
if they never accept Christ, it's no big dea
if they never accept Christ, it's no big deal.
It follows that, when we go to Mass, we effectively stake our
eternal salvation on the profession that Jesus is God, telling heaven that
if He is not, then the true God may cast both Him and us into
hell on the Last Day.
So,
IF we compare these so - called
ETERNAL -
HELL passages with this Revelation passage, we find a contradiction in the English useage.
So for Christians to believe the actual, absolute,
eternal lake of fire «
hell», well
if they only knew they were making something literal that was always meant to be figurative.
And
if you keep it up, well, off to
eternal suffering in
hell with you!
Even
if there weren't
hell, and only suggestible people got
eternal life, that would be immoral.
What
if you didn't have the prospect of
eternal conscious punishment to «scare the
hell» out of people?
If you continue in that state, you will suffer
eternal alienation from God in everlasting
hell.
@snarf: I don't like explaining to a child when the hear Christians preaching god sends them to
hell for
eternal torture
if they don't believe the BS in the bible.
For him to «want» this to happen, infers that
if he is correct, then that would most likely mean (given the current model of the rapture when Jesus supposedly returns), that billions of people would be sent to an
eternal fiery torment in...
hell.
If souls are
eternal and the only choice available is either heaven or
hell at the end of this brief respite called life, where were these immortal souls of ours before conception / birth?
If Christians would finally realize that the doctrine of
eternal conscious torture in a so - called
hell is a pagan myth carried over into the Christian faith, this thread would not be possible.
So, how can any believer be sent to
hell if eternal life with God is guaranteed?
If your living without Jesus Christ and think live on earth is a living
hell this is only a taste of your
eternal punishment.
Eternal hell is necessary
if only one soul would choose this way.
The new Pope seems to treat everyone with respect and dignity, including gays and even atheists, though he has not changed a word of Roman Catholic dogma that the latter are damned to
eternal hell and the former,
if they are not celibate, are likewise doomed.