Um, NO.
Would a Good God Really Create a Place Called HELL?
by Blueblades 29 Replies latest jw friends
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teejay
>>>> hell is merely the absence of God. People CHOOSE to go there by rejecting God.
Yeru,
As a Catholic, answer a question for me if you would...
I know you and no other human can answer this with any level of certainty, but hazard a guess for me. Of all the people who've ever lived and are alive today, how many people would you estimate are either in the hell that you believe in or will eventually end up there?
It would seem to me that very, very few people would ever purposely work to be away from god once they got to know him. Is that a fair assumption? -
Hamas
You are forgetting something; God is not good.
God has sat back for years simply watching his subjects breed then die like rats. He has witnesses timeless bouts of suffering; yet he has done deleted all to help. He allowed one of his greatest servants, Job, to lose everything he had over a petty bet with Satan. He took sides with a bloodthirsty people, and exacted a vendetta against a whole generation simply because one person offered up an animal and the other person offered veg.
Most of all, he sits back and watches us all die simply because of one man's mistake; a result of his bad planning. If he is all knowing, he knew that this would happen. This leads us to the conclusion that he knew but he just didn't care.
He claims he never changes, but had to send his son to earth in order for man to be saved from Adam's sin.... if Adam had never sinned, this would never had happened... alas, Adam did sin, so God had to change his purpose.
All in all, God is evil, no worse than Satan.
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Frannie Banannie
Nope....and we only have the words of some egomaniacal bible writers that any of the other things attributed to a deity actually occurred....and their words have "holes" in 'em...
Frannie B
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SanFranciscoJim
Apparently, he already has:
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freedom96
I was talking to a Baptist preacher a few years ago, and even he described hell as a place of where there is absence of God, not a burning torture place.
If Satan ran a burning hell, I always had a problem with that, for then God and Satan would be working together. "Ok, this guy good, I get him, that bad guy, you get him." I just couldn't buy into that.
I have heard the absence of God being the description of hell quite a few times.
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heathen
I think it all matters how you interpret the scriptures . There are many scriptures that are symbolic and are taken literally . I have seen on this board that some believe that the rich man lazarus story that jesus told was confirming in the existence of a place for evil doers to be deep fried thoughout eternity . Jesus did use the term of being burned in gehenna in ways that could be understood as eternal hell fire . The WTBTS argues that the word hades meant grave but it's meaning changed due to greek mythology to be the place of the eternally damned (see dantes inferno ). After reading the bible I did see that people are not literally tortured after death .
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bebu
My aunt and uncle had just come back from Holland, and brought me a pair of wooden shoes. My first introduction to the country of "Holland", which I promptly mixed up with Hell. I went to mom and asked, "Why don't people in Holland just move out??" She was perplexed as to why I would ask this. I told her if it was so hot, they should just get on a plane and leave! And why on earth would my aunt and uncle even want to take their vacation there??? She finally figured out what I was talking about.
For awhile it was a joke at our place to tell them to go to Holland.
So, whether or not God "created" a place known as hell, He did create Holland!
bebu
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heathen
lol bebu--- I think the bible refered to egypt as the iron furnace . I often use the term it's hotter than hell here in texas .
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Yerusalyim
Tee Jay,
Sorry I could answer sooner...I was out of posts.
I've had this discussion before...though it went more like...who would ever choose not to be with God. Well, if you accept the bible as authoritative...Satan and 1/3 of the angels that knew God choose to live without him.
As to how many humans will be in hell I really have no idea...I hope not many...I fear a lot...perhaps the angels reflect what we will do..and fully 1/3 of humanity will choose to live without God.