I do NOT care if «God» himself comes down and threatens
me with eternal hell and damnation.
Not exact matches
Before the «Dispensation of Grace» of God, by which we are saved through «Faith in Jesus Christ» as Lord and our personal Savior, Jesus Christ fulfilled the «Law of God» on our behalf during His ministry on earth, died on the «Holy Cross» for the «Remission of Our Sins» once and for all, descended to
hell and defeated death, then rose from the dead on the third day bringing us «
Eternal Life» and «Reconciliation»
with God the Father!
The true after - life ontology of heaven (note that heaven does not exist, nor
hell) is one of an
eternal blissful state of union
with God and others choosing salvation.
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!).
The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law on our behalf, died on the Holy Cross for the remission of our sins (became sin and curse for us) descended to
hell and defeated death (keys of which were held by Satan,) rose from the dead on the third day bringing us
eternal life and reconciliation
with God the Father, then ascended to Heaven promising us the Holy Spirit and preparing the place for us.
And stop
with the threats of
eternal hell... Pascal's wager is based on the false dicotomy that there are only two possibilities: God is or is not... what about Vishnu?
Too many lies along
with Pagan traditions ad Greek mythology are taught in the churches today (Christmas, Easter,
Eternal torment in
Hell, etc.) This evil plague called religion must go.
A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels
eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children
with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented
hell - mouths mercy, and invented
hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented
hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally,
with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
It has got away for so long
with the kind of lunatic word - games that allow death - by - torture to be presented as an act of love, and
eternal torment in the flames of
hell to be seen as a necessary act of justice, that we should perhaps not be surprised that it has also managed to dupe its followers into seeing the systematic suppression and silencing of women as an act of liberation and equality.
Ezekiel Garragut imagines God as a fierce force rather like himself, a dark diviner of souls who delights less in rewarding the pure
with bliss
eternal than in sinking sinners in an excremental
hell.
Once the young apologist, I suddenly found myself wrestling
with the notion that most of my fellow human beings would suffer
eternal damnation in
hell for being born at the wrong place and the wrong time.
It wasn't until much later that «sheol» (or «Hades») got transformed into «
hell»
with fire, brimstone and
eternal punishment for only the «goats»
Far more pervasive, however, than this apparent reconciliation
with Buddhism, are the principal themes of
eternal death and Christ's descent into
hell.
CHOOSE CHRIST NOW AND YOU WILL JOIN HIM IN
ETERNAL LIFE... or else satan will be your company along
with any amount of brides who will never make you feel good in
hell.
When Rob Bell released Love Wins, a book that made a compelling biblical case against the exclusivist theology that all non-Christians will be condemned to
eternal conscious torment in
hell, the Southern Baptist Convention released a resolution that stated: «Being troubled, even deeply troubled, by the implications of the biblical text does not give us a reason to abandon the text or force it into a mold that rests comfortably
with us.
I too, have dealt
with blasphemous thoughts against the Holy Spirit, so much, in fact, that I actually began to resent the Holy Spirit for even existing, because the very mention of him in the Bible would fill my mind
with terror over blaspheming Him and thereby fearing unforgiveness and
eternal punishment in
hell.
Eternal separation from Christ might be a more sanitized version of the medieval view of
hell, but it is still out - of - touch
with the reality of 1 Corinthians 15:22 - 28, Colossians 1:15 - 20, Romans 5:12 - 19, 1 TImothy 2:4 - 6 and 4:9 - 11, 1 John 2:2 and 4:14, and many other passages.
There is an eschatology of the individual
with reference to concepts of heaven,
hell, final judgment, and in general of «
eternal life.»
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.
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?
Most Christians I know are raised to fear a vindictive God and
eternal hell, derive pleasure from the thought that God will provide «evildoers» and non-Christians
with their comeuppance and use God as a means to acquire material, trivial things (existence of mega-churches, buy my book, this is the only way to salvation, pray to God so that my football team wins).
Why would you choose
hell over
eternal fellowship
with God without truly examining it to make absolutely sure that it's not real.
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.
It is the doctrine of
eternal hell I find LOGICALLY incompatible
with God's love.
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.
Yes i know two counsellors i told one of them about this and i want to know why Jesus Christ without any mercy sends that person to
hell forever to suffer and never ever forgives them even though they didn't commit any thing like murder and that also forever you can forgive that person went in minutes of that sin
with in a snap of a finger then only why that sin why not give him another life in Earth after forgiving and punishing him for the rest of his sin it is said that god and Jesus Is very merciful then why he is giving such a life sentence that is much more worse than
eternal nothingness and why doesn't he punish Satun
with eternal nothingness because i think most of the sins in Earth are committed because of him only?
Let me begin here by saying I am
with you in thinking there is something absurd in the idea of someone freely choosing
eternal hell.
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
God is not dangling your sin over your head as a way of threatening you
with eternal punishment in
hell.
Lynn, it's hard for me to remember what it was like believing that I, along
with every other human, was deserving of
eternal torment in
hell.
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?
Biobraine: I agree
with you that
hell doesn't exist in the literal sense of
eternal torment!
Anyone
with a little bit of sense understands that in the context of Matthew 27:42, the word «save» does not mean escape from
hell and entrance into heaven, or receiving
eternal life.
So, IF we compare these so - called
ETERNAL -
HELL passages
with this Revelation passage, we find a contradiction in the English useage.
So when we come to a few texts in Scripture which says that baptism «saves,» we must understand that the word «saves» there has absolutely nothing to do
with hell, heaven,
eternal life, etc..
Because although most Christians think «saved» means «get forgiveness of sins and receive
eternal life so you can escape
hell and go to heaven when you die» (or something like that), the truth is that the vast majority (99 % or more) of the times the word «saved» is used in the Bible, it has almost nothing to do
with such an idea.
And if you keep it up, well, off to
eternal suffering in
hell with you!
Sometimes these stories contain vivid portrayals of heaven and
hell, where those who come forward can enjoy
eternal bliss
with God, while those who do not will suffer
eternal torment in the flames and blackness of
hell.
A Christian, who does good deeds
with the promise of everlasting life in heaven or the threat of
eternal damnation in
hell.
Concern
with material continuity also fed theological and artistic speculation about the fate of cut fingernails and hair, the condition and presence of genitals, the age and stature of the resurrected body, the bodies of the saints, the fate of relics, whether bodies in
hell are reassembled as completely as those given
eternal life and how and whether digested body parts are regurgitated at the resurrection.
The righteous enjoy
eternal life
with God; the lost are sentenced to
hell.
They had some bad thought enter their mind and are now afraid that God is going to kill their family and then strike them down
with cancer before burning their house down around their ears and sending them off to
eternal torture in
hell.
While I believe many verses deal
with eternal rewards that are mistakenly used in conjunction
with Salvation, this verse is extremely hard pressed to be viewed in a manner other then salvation from
hell.
The teaching that there this is an
eternal everlasting tormenting
hell is unbiblical and in my conversations
with nonreligious people the number one reason for their unbelief.
I was shown thru the Holy Spirit what real death was, thru a vision of
Hell, a real experience and a horrifying
eternal separation from the one I wanted to spend eternity
with.
The final judgement day sees the rest of humanity cast into an
eternal hell, along
with the antichrist and his followers.
It does not come from God, nor does it have anything to do
with hell or
eternal punishment..
So, how can any believer be sent to
hell if
eternal life
with God is guaranteed?
Sadly, thanks to them, the unsaved who need Jesus think God is a hateful bully who beats up on scared, pregnant teenagers and gays and sends them to
eternal hell and will have nothing to do
with the church.
I think that the next step for pope Francis would be to recognize that the concept of
eternal hell is also completely incompatible
with the love of God.