God of love...

[TruePathFinder]

I am sure you have heard this question before, please indulge me and explain it again. If God is a god of love, how can he send me to hell because I don't accept Jesus. I am a better behaved man than most. What is the reason for me being sent to eternal anguish? How can God be called a god of love if he sends the majority of the population to hell?

 

[stvdv]

Creating fear in someone gives you power over them. Not important if the fear is real or not. Enough if they just believe in it.
[the God you talk about is human created to have power over them and earn some money in the process]

 

[RabbiO]

I am sure you have heard this question before, please indulge me and explain it again. If God is a god of love, how can he send me to hell because I don't accept Jesus. I am a better behaved man than most. What is the reason for me being sent to eternal anguish? How can God be called a god of love if he sends the majority of the population to hell?

You do understand, I assume, that there are religions other than Christianity and that even within Christianity there are different beliefs regarding what happens after death.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I am sure you have heard this question before, please indulge me and explain it again. If God is a god of love, how can he send me to hell because I don't accept Jesus. I am a better behaved man than most. What is the reason for me being sent to eternal anguish? How can God be called a god of love if he sends the majority of the population to hell?

Do you believe such a place and feelings exist in order to actually experience hell?

 

[whirlingmerc]

I am sure you have heard this question before, please indulge me and explain it again. If God is a god of love, how can he send me to hell because I don't accept Jesus. I am a better behaved man than most. What is the reason for me being sent to eternal anguish? How can God be called a god of love if he sends the majority of the population to hell?

God loves His holiness. He can satisfy that by having you glorify God leaning on His work on the cross being redeemed and paid for by His Son.... or he can satisfy that by showing judgement sending you away from the enjoyment of His glory

It is consistent

 

[PureX]

I am sure you have heard this question before, please indulge me and explain it again. If God is a god of love, how can he send me to hell because I don't accept Jesus. I am a better behaved man than most. What is the reason for me being sent to eternal anguish? How can God be called a god of love if he sends the majority of the population to hell?

The idea is that we send ourselves to hell by refusing to acknowledge and appreciate that divine love, and by not allowing ourselves to become a living expression of it, as we were intended. The anguish happens because of what we have made of ourselves through our choices in life, and then once dead, we have no way of correcting it.

I'm not saying I agree with this as a scenario, I'm just saying that this is the reasoning behind the idea of 'eternal damnation'.

 

[whirlingmerc]

The idea is that we send ourselves to hell by refusing to acknowledge and appreciate that divine love, and by not allowing ourselves to become a living expression of it, as we were intended. The anguish happens because of what we have made of ourselves through our choices in life, and then once dead, we have no way of correcting it.

I'm not saying I agree with this as a scenario, I'm just saying that this is the reasoning behind the idea of 'eternal damnation'.

Being better behaved than most? It's not like God has to grade on a curve.
Does a person love and thank God purely? Do they even live up to the rules they apply to others?
No

 

[Cacotopia]

I am sure you have heard this question before, please indulge me and explain it again. If God is a god of love, how can he send me to hell because I don't accept Jesus. I am a better behaved man than most. What is the reason for me being sent to eternal anguish? How can God be called a god of love if he sends the majority of the population to hell?

According to some(outlawState), we were made to not understand, with zero possibility of understanding, and thus are doomed to hell.

Seems like the authors put passages in the Bible to make them superior to those that either try and fail to grasp the concept of god, or believe in something else.

 

[TruePathFinder]

You do understand, I assume, that there are religions other than Christianity and that even within Christianity there are different beliefs regarding what happens after death.

Yes I am aware of that.

 

[TruePathFinder]

Do you believe such a place and feelings exist in order to actually experience hell?

No I don't. But I am curious to hear an answer.

 

[TruePathFinder]

God loves His holiness. He can satisfy that by having you glorify God leaning on His work on the cross being redeemed and paid for by His Son.... or he can satisfy that by showing judgement sending you away from the enjoyment of His glory

It is consistent

Jesus paid the price for what?

 

[TruePathFinder]

These Christians merely mumble what they were told or what they rationalized without thinking about the reality of real eternal punishment. Indoctrinated.

 

[PureX]

Being better behaved than most? It's not like God has to grade on a curve.
Does a person love and thank God purely? Do they even live up to the rules they apply to others?
No

We will never be 'perfect'. But we are told that we can trust in God's forgiveness to make up for the inability, so long as we are willing to admit to our flaws and failures, and keep trying.

Also, it's not really about 'good or bad behavior', it's about the state of mind and heart that fuels the good and bad behavior. When we consistently and persistently allow the spirit of fear, greed, and selfishness to govern our thoughts and behaviors over the course of our lifetime, this spirit poisons us, and becomes us. And we can never recover. (Thus, we fall into an eternal hell of our own making.) But if we are willing to recognize this shortcoming within ourselves, and keep trying to think and act on the spirit of love, forgiveness, kindness and generosity, that also exists within us (this spirit being called the "Christ within"), doing so can heal us and save us from ourselves. And act as an antidote to that poison that would otherwise condemn us for all eternity.

Religious Christianity is not just about eternal punishment, it's also about how to be saved from that eternal punishment. And the key is to understand that we have the power to choose. Thus, we are responsible for the ultimate result. Not God.

 

[TruePathFinder]

Christians can go to hell too.

 

[sojourner]

I am sure you have heard this question before, please indulge me and explain it again. If God is a god of love, how can he send me to hell because I don't accept Jesus. I am a better behaved man than most. What is the reason for me being sent to eternal anguish? How can God be called a god of love if he sends the majority of the population to hell?

I don’t believe God does that. I believe that God is love and, because of that, God will gather all people to God.

 

[sojourner]

Jesus paid the price for what?

Indeed. In my book, Substitutionary Atonement is codswallop.

 

[Jumi]

I am sure you have heard this question before, please indulge me and explain it again. If God is a god of love, how can he send me to hell because I don't accept Jesus.

Set your mind at ease, you're not being sent to hell for not accepting Jesus.

 

[WalterTrull]

I am sure you have heard this question before, please indulge me and explain it again. If God is a god of love, how can he send me to hell because I don't accept Jesus. I am a better behaved man than most. What is the reason for me being sent to eternal anguish? How can God be called a god of love if he sends the majority of the population to hell?

Would you like to buy a bridge? I have a great one. It's on sale!!

 

[Shushersbedamned]

You sound proud - that is a sin

 

[Shushersbedamned]

Set your mind at ease, you're not being sent to hell for not accepting Jesus.

Here comes the savour...-_-