Re: Does anyone deserve eternal hell?
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 5:48 am
And that is how they reject God. The only way to God is through Christ. "I am the way, the truth. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:16IceMobster wrote:By rejecting Christ? Does that mean that Muslims also go to hell? They see Christ as a messenger of God. However, they do not claim he is God.Storyteller wrote:God doesn't choose who goes to hell.
We ourselves choose, by rejecting Christ.
And we are not punished for our actions, we may be disciplined but not punished. Why should you go to Heaven and spend etrnity with an entity you have never believed in?
Welcome to the forum btw
Yes. In a word. If they choose another religion other than clinging to, and following Christ, they are rejecting Christ. If they reject Christ, they reject God.IceMobster wrote:What about adherents of any other religion in the world?
Are they all doomed just because their religion or belief made more sense to them than Christ?
I think we will all be held accountable for our actions BUT by following Christ our punishment, our debt to God has already been paid, in full. Every single sin that is possible to commit, possible to imagine, Christ took them all on Himself so that we can abide in God. If we reject that gift then we choose hell.IceMobster wrote:"We may be disciplined but not punished." What is the difference? You go to hell either way?
So it would be more loving to force someone to believe in and follow Christ? God, as far as I am aware only condemns those that reject Christ. If you haven`t heard of Christ, how can you reject Him? He died for all of us, past, present and future.IceMobster wrote:To get back to my second sentence here, how can you claim God is full of love and/or mercy if all adherents of other religions (and of all those religions before Christianity) are going to hell simply by rejecting Christ?
God is love, He is immutable, so that love has to be absolutely perfect, otherwise He wouldn`t be God. You say "going to hell simply by rejecting Christ" It`s not simply though, is it? Christ is God. He loves humanity and His creation enough, so perfectly, so eternally, He contained Himself as a man, He showed us Himself, lived without sin. God became human, took on every pain, every injustice, every sin, every wrongdoing and died, then rose again, all so that we, imperfect, sinful beings that we are, can be redeemed in and through the love and grace of God.
ThanksIceMobster wrote:As for the question you asked; the "!" mark is used to report a post (as can be seen if you put your cursor on it and hold it there for a few seconds) and the "*" mark is used to set a bookmark/to set as if you didn't read this post yet.
As for the welcome part, you have my thanks.
You kinda answered your own question there. Because sin entered the world.Nessa wrote: *flips coin*Yes, why not? Heaven and earth were once the same thing until the point of Adam & Eve committing sin. After all, it is a place where you get to meet your maker, where you find out the truth, where irrelevant "earthly" things no longer matter. Right?IceMobster wrote:Does anyone deserve eternal heaven?
Why do any of us, sinful as we are, deserve to feel good? [/quote]IceMobster wrote:The thing is, in hell you do not feel good, which is why I asked if anyone deserves not feeling good forever and ever...