Sentences with phrase «eternal punishment god»
Thus with the condemnation of sinners to eternal punishment God's kingdom would come suddenly and dramatically.
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The depiction of hell as a place of eternal punishment and torture of sinners has been an unnecessary roadblock to faith for many for it suggests a God who unfairly punishes sins of 70 years on earth as warranting eternal damnation.
2) If you don't understand how God can be loving and still have a place of eternal punishment, I'd say you're not understanding biblical love.
By even 1 mortal sin — a fully - knowing and fully - deliberate act against God's law (the 10 commandments)-- you reject God, too, and thereby merit eternal separation from God and punishment in Hell.
Meanwhile, in early Christianity, you had guys like Origen who preached and teached Universal Restoration / Reconciliation (the belief that, one day, God will reconcile / restore humanity to himself, that ALL will be saved); he did not believe in eternal punishment.
For many a lost soul having been given an «eternal punishment» that «eternal» actually means «Eternal» or that it refers to one of the names for God like Alpha and Omega, and it does not necessarily mean dueternal punishment» that «eternal» actually means «Eternal» or that it refers to one of the names for God like Alpha and Omega, and it does not necessarily mean dueternal» actually means «Eternal» or that it refers to one of the names for God like Alpha and Omega, and it does not necessarily mean duEternal» or that it refers to one of the names for God like Alpha and Omega, and it does not necessarily mean duration.
Perhaps god doesn't like a bunch of mindless sheeple, and lets in only people who think for themselves and live honest and compassionate lives because they think it's a good idea, not because they fear eternal punishment.
Also, what makes you so sure that when given eternal punishment automatically means eternal in duration and not eternal as meaning that it is just simply in reference to God's punishment because one of the names for God is eternal like Alpha and Omega.
Still, it seems a lot like splitting hairs because even the CC describes this sepearation from god as eternal punishment.
They move chunks of information around in ways nothing else can — as payloads that convey intolerance, suppression of ideas and opinions, even violence at times, and persecution of dissenters, all with the weight behind it of an all - powerful God and it's eternal rewards and punishments that are conveniently hidden in an unknowable afterlife.
Since God's dignity and holiness are eternal, a just punishment against such a one must also be eternal.
@ karl: is your god so petty and paranoid that he would visit eternal punishment on one of his creations — that he is supposed to love — just because that creation decided to use its brain to question the existence of this god?
If a person needs the fear of eternal punishment by a make believe god to deter them from killing, stealing or any other sort of malevolence, they are not decent human beings to begin with.
God loves you, accept his son and you will avoid eternal punishment after death.
What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.
God's people do not take comfort in the eternal punishment for that rejection, but we do take comfort that God will be glorified eternally by all men, whether in heaven with Him by His grace and love, or separated as receivers of His righteous wrath.
We are just tiny beings in Gods universe and he doesn't owe you anything but he loves you anyways so why send yourself to eternal punishment when it's so easy to believe!
God nbever punshed children for their parents crimes... death isnot always a punishment... cause the ultimate punishment is eternal life in hell... you are looking at wrong perspective there here and now in a temporary world
If there is an eternal torment, it would have to be created by God for the express purpose of punishment, and only by His divine omnipotence would anyone ever be contained within.
* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.
Nope, Veronica, a «god» that would threaten us with eternal punishment, especially for some relatively mild «transgressions» of a short mortal lifetime, doesn't «love» us.
Some preachers believe that the only way people of today are going to come to God is if they fear eternal punishment in the afterlife.
To me, a perfect judgement and sentence of the evil person would require more than just a punishment in eternal flame, since he would still be capable of cursing God, fostering hatred and perversion and all sorts of other humanly sinful ways while he was being eternally tormented.
The good news, the Gospel, is that while God is holy and we are sinners, and sin deserves punishment, God, out of His great love for us, sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ to die in our place for our sin so that anyone who wants eternal life in heaven with God can simply believe in Jesus Christ for it and it will be given to them.
Yet, god lets them be born knowing their ultimate fate is eternal punishment.
Later theology for Whitehead, hence, distorted Jesus vision of «gentleness and mercy» by an «old ferocious God..., the Oriental despot, the Pharaoh, the Hitler; with everything to enforce obedience, from infant damnation and eternal punishment,» Price (1954) 176.
If there are gods I'd be willing to bet they either don't dish out eternal punishments or they are total jerks.
God selects those to be saved in relation to the number of fallen angels, and the eternal punishment of hell is prepared for the condemned and therefore unrepentant sinners.
You crave punishment because it makes you feel somehow superior, or correct in your discovery of «God's Word» in a book which was written and edited and re-edited (as well as redacted) by countless rulers and scholars along the way, each wishing to have some stake in the claim of the Eternal.
GOD clearly warns those who worship Jesus as god and threatens them with eternal punishment, as it is the GREATEST SIN and OPPRESSION that a person can commit against GOD.
If I'm an unbeliever till my dying day and am punished (however you believe that punishment to be, whether its eternal hel.lfire or just barred access into heaven) I can't exactly go back and redo my life believing in god because I know the consequence.
Now that end is the salvation of souls from eternal punishment, now the cure of guilty souls through their apprehension of the love of God, now the reconciliation of God and man through sacrifice and sacrament and works of expiation.
We all deserve eternal punishment for our sins, but God's infinite love and grace have allowed us a way out.
When we repent (and if necessary go to confession) God remits the «eternal punishment» due to sin.
God made a choice — he chose some individuals to be saved unto everlasting blessedness in heaven, and he chose others to pass over, allowing them to suffer the consequences of their sins, eternal punishment in hell (Sproul, Grace Unknown, 141).
Dear Jeremy I want to know that we all know that god is very loving and forgiving he will forgive every sin except one and that is blasphemy against the holy spirit and god can even forgive murder then why not such a sin that can be forgiven with in half an hour by an average human then why the punishment is really much worse eternal damnation?
Critics of religion often claim that its adherents grovellingly obey moral laws, not for the sake of leading a good life or behaving altruistically, but for fear of eternal punishment at the hands of a vindictive God.
As for hell and eternal punishment, I do believe in some sort of eternal separation from God, but I do not believe it has anything to do with torment of suffering.
So you don't believe that all humans are born sinful meriting eternal punishment or maybe they are, but the god will excuse their sinful nature if he kills them when they are very young?
Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result
If failure to believe that Jesus was an incarnated god will subject someone to eternal punishment, then why did the god not provide more credible evidence of his existence?
The crux of the problem is this: Christians (mostly) think that eternal torture is a fitting punishment for the thought crime of failing to believe in their God.
God is not dangling your sin over your head as a way of threatening you with eternal punishment in hell.
Because God is a just God he had to place commandments which had a punishment affixed, which is eternal separation from God.
This enormously transforms his perspective upon the present life, less through hope of future reward or fear of punishment than through a sense of the enhanced worthfulness of the present as preparatory to eternal life in the presence of God.
But eternal punishment for lack of belief certainly seemed cruel and unjust, two things that did not reconcile with a God who IS love.
If you believe eternal punishment for finite «crimes» is ok on one hand and God is loving on the other, then I think you may be confused.
Jesus alone made it possible for me to have eternal life because He alone is righteous, and He alone took the full punishment for my sins so that I could enter into God's presence.
The freedom to be ethical, moral & caring human beings by choice without the need to be threatened by a loving God (s) with eternal punishment of fire.
The benefits are: God's mercy is communicated in a tangible way; Reconciliation with God; Personal encounter with Christ; Divine life is restored in our soul; Grace is given; Confession reminds us of the price of sin; The profits of penance; Remission of eternal punishment; Temporal punishment can be diminished; Merit and virtue restored; Makes our prayers and works more efficacious; We benefit from the priest's prayers and penance; More fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaints.