Posted on 02/24/2014 5:17:08 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
I meant to post this Sunday, but forgot. :)
He who does not believe in Hell needs to move to Massghanistan.
People tend to create their own private hell right
here on earth. I’m over duality.
Hell exists, otherwise we wouldn’t have a devil named Baraq.
Infinite hell contradicts infinite love.
Finite hell, however, does not.
And finite can be a long, long, long time.
So does that mean you used to believe in it, but now you don't?
:: ducking and running ::
Unbelievers don’t understand the emotional pain the knowledge of God’s eternal wrath causes believers! We want others to know Christ and be saved to the uttermost! I’m slowly coming to accept that I must agree with God and respect any human’s choice to reject the Son. Still, we should plead with others to “be reconciled to God”.
:: ducking and running ::
Though a tree has it’s branches in heaven,
it has it’s roots in hell.
There being no duality, pluralism is untrue,
at least that is what the tree told me.
Do you think it was lying?
There being no duality, pluralism is untrue,
at least that is what the tree told me.
Do you think it was lying?
Talking trees always get into trouble.
Silent trees speak the truth with their roots and branches.
You're lucky your tree stuck to what it knows best.
The author may be confused.
“God’s unrelenting anger”??
Hell may be in fact, the individual’s conscious decision to turn his back on God.
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
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Saved from nothingness?
Okay...
“Infinite hell contradicts infinite love. Finite hell, however, does not.”
You have an unbalanced view of God if you only know of His love for He is also a God of wrath. The Scriptures do not teach God has infinite love for rebels. They do, however, teach of an eternal Hell.
Hell may properly be described as the complete absence of God, the source of all life, beauty, and fulfillment. Those who turn their backs on God will find that he will grant their wish and depart from them - eternally.
The place of Satan in hell is probably best told in Milton's Paradise Lost...Satan rejected God and Milton has him saying that he would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
Jesus talked about hell quite a bit. I imagine it is like a city run by democrats for 1000 years....
There is a hell but it is not forever. GOD is a GOD of mercy and he will not punish humans for all time. Those who do not accept him will be put to death from which there is no resurrection. There are many who say this is not supported with biblical passages but if you read revelation you will see that when John says talks about being thrown into the lake of fire he is referring to Satan and the angles who followed him. God does not change for man. He created man mortal, he created Satan and the angles who followed him as immortal. In the final judgment he will honor those creations. Any Man who does not accept GOD as the only GOD and warship him will be put to death (mortal) and Satan and his demons will face the judgment they were given when they rebelled against GOD, eternal damnation.
Sorry, don’t have time for “how many angels fit on the head of a pin” internet arguments anymore. Didn’t even have time to catch up on the pings from replies on the threads in question.
My Dad had a stroke on Valentine’s Day. Suddenly these “burning forever vs. annihilation” arguments seem small and insignificant.
Thanks for the provocation anyway.
I believe the teachings of an eternal hell are incorrect. I believe they are historical manipulations of genuine teachings for political purposes.
Infinite love is infinite - it has no equal, no opposite and nothing outside of itself. That's not an imbalanced understanding - infinity is not imbalanced. It is everything.
Not to mention that a human being simply cannot do enough wrong in any number of lifetimes, let alone one, to deserve infinite hell, under any system of law except that of a homicidal maniac. And God is not a homicidal maniac.
I don't think anything is lost in my understanding of justice. God is not mocked. Hell lasts as long as it has to, which I imagine is until the complete destruction of the spirit of evil on a person, no matter how long that takes.
How could a God of love continue a person's time in hell, once that spirit of evil in them had been destroyed by hell?
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