"Eternal suffering" refers to continuous and endless pain or agony that never stops or comes to an end.
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How evil to create something you know will be destined to an existence
of eternal suffering because of your (god's) design flaws.
He therefore, by making that choice, knowingly condemned some of those he created to
eternal suffering in hell.
You can't really love someone under penalty
of eternal suffering, and you certainly can't convince anyone else to love them using that logic.
Sometimes I wonder which people hope for more, eternal bliss for themselves or
eternal suffering for others.
living in crude huts, illiterate, no medicine, no industry, suppressing any and all science that contradic «ts what their moldy «holy» book says and living in total fear of what men of «god» tell us what we can or can not do
with eternal suffering hanging over our heads.
You would
inflict eternal suffering upon yourself, so you would not have to listen to anyone who differs with you in opinion.
I'm certain it is because suddenly I was baking anything and everything that I could just to prove that going GF did not
mean eternal suffering!
I do not however believe that there will be a god who teaches love on one hand, but hands
out eternal suffering with the other if you chose not believe in him... cant see why that would be so important to this supposed ultimate being..
An Evil God on the other hand, would use threats —
like eternal suffering in a Lake of Fire in an effort to intimidate people into believing, and try to bribe people with an offer to allow expiation of all sins, even including murder, if you will only believe without evidence, coupled with the vast bribe of eternal life.
It is not stated that the wicked will
endure eternal suffering, so I believe that they will be simply destroyed, even as the ancient Israelites always said God would do.
But most of us are people who reflect and think and can not reconcile the Christian idea of an all - knowing, all - powerful god who chooses to involve himself in the minutiae of our lives, and who gives us free will, but will send us to a place of
eternal suffering if we tell a fib and don't confess.
However, God's control is shown by the fact that God will punish those who disobey
by eternal suffering.
So the teachings
of eternal suffering in a place called Hell is completely false and any organization that stands by this teaching will not receive God's blessings.
God does not choose, out of the mass of humanity, some to spend eternity with Him in heaven, while all others are destined for
eternal suffering in hell.
She also seems to just want to revel in self - righteousness, the thought of
eternal suffering for people who don't agree with her, and generally just being a dumb bit.ch on these threads.
The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to
eternal suffering.
I support your right to believe whatever you choose to believe, but I do not support terrorizing innocent children and the ignorant and fearful with images of
eternal suffering.
Is it right to damn him to
eternal suffering, a dark wish he extended to plenty of others?
Then you have to ask yourself is punishment of this kind, either death by stoning in this life or
eternal suffering in the next is morally good or in fact justified.
However, there is a certain point when time ends and all men have finally decided either to love God or reject him, when every knee will bow either because of love or because they are forced,
that eternal suffering as a sentence on mankind is questionable in my mind.
It did not carry or convey the ideas of
eternal suffering or torment that the word carries today, due to the gradual distortions and perversions accumulated through superstition and tradition and downright lies.
I don't think it's possible to imagine a more evil character than one who could do away with
the eternal suffering of hell yet allows it to continue.
And if you don't love Him back, he'll cast you into a pit of
eternal suffering.
The latter enjoys an apparent freedom, whereas the former is subjected to
eternal sufferings and bondage.
He still sets conditions on his love and he also condemns billions of people who have not heard his word to
eternal suffering.
You first do not see the inherint evil in
eternal suffering for a minor transgression (namely disbelief), add on top of that your willing acceptance for a life sentence in prison for jaywalking (with the analogy given), well lets just say I was blown away.
Or what about the greatest horror of all, the decision of God to condemn some people to
eternal suffering in hell?
You will be dead alot longer then you live and
eternal suffering isn't my cup of tea.
The gods of all organized religions, if true, would all be horribly unjust and evil deities to send billions of people to
eternal suffering for choosing the wrong one or being born in the wrong place.
As you may have heard, last week the Southern Baptist Convention responded to pastor Rob Bell's controversial book, Love Wins, with a resolution declaring that «the Bible clearly teaches that God will judge the lost at the end of the age,» and that such judgment will include the «conscious,
eternal suffering» for all non-Christians.
And the fool accepts whatever ridiculous nonsense loud angry brainwashed people yell at him and order him to accept on pain of
eternal suffering.