If God is omniscient, then he knew that I was going to go to hell right from the beginning. Why did he bother?
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What makes you think you are going to hell?  In fact, I don't think you do believe that; my guess is you don't believe there is a heaven or hell, or a God, either.  You may or may not be right, but using these ironic questions just confuses most Christians; they try to answer something with a built-in paradox.  That's not playing fair, linguistically.
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Gandhi, me, you, the president - it doesn't matter who. No. He did not go to hell. Life always goes on. This is where reincarnation comes in. You keep living your life until you have become all light and grace. This is what most do not get. What goes around, comes around until you "get it."\n\nHell is said that this place was made for the little naughty angels. Well this is also what people don't get. It is made for the angels. That is their place, not yours. Don't get me wrong though. No doubt many have been there, but it was not from God, well, unless he needed to get a point across because one has been too stubborn. There can be many reasons. But I asure you that Hell is only a place for the angels that have done wrong. The myth of Heaven and Hell is only here to take advantage of others. To control them. To scare them. This is what preachers are now-a-days. They have their leadership and they abuse the position. Pity really. I hope this explains things. Cheers!
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If god is everything mentioned in the question, then one can argue that all of the holocausts of peoples in the past, present, and future did not happen. As god is omnipotent, then it is capable of changing the very nature of life on Earth, maybe reverting everything back to Eden for one. If he is omnibenevolent, then again, the holocausts should not have occurred, as god would not have allowed for such an atrocity. Most of all, he must show forgiveness to the 'original sin' of Adam and Eve, by reverting Earth back into an Eden of a paradise. If it is omniscient, then he should be seeing everything that is happening here, and should have done something about it, as it is supposedly omnipotent and omnibenevolent \nIn regards to the existence of evil, well, according to the Bible, god gave it form and substance through the creation of Lucifer, the angel's exile from heaven, and allowing the realm of hell to be concieved without molestation. This means that according to logic, god created evil, therefore he is evil. By the way, the simple fact that god is supposedly omnipotent means that in less than time itself, hell would be instantly annihilated. \nGod is supposedly possesses all the attributed mentioned, yet the world remains as it was then and now. Wars, massacres, pestilence and death have occured, and currently happening at the moment. While at the same time, goodness is also prevalent amongst the peoples, counteracting the damage done of 'badness.' This means that as far as reality is concerned, god is not omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient, because everything occuring in this world are done by the hands of man, not of god. So in a certain perspective, the responsibilities of the world should be man and man alone, not to any monipotent, omnibenevolent, omniscient entity that does not exists.
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He came from someones imagination. It is impossible to has existed for eternity. Everything has to have a point at which it was created or began.
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Omniscience doesn't include knowing the result of a random outcome.  If you think that 'omniscience' means knowing the future, then you have misunderstood the concept.\n\nIt was shown (in the story of Adam and Eve ... please, it's an allegory, not literal fact!) that the human race was given 'free will' - in other words, a knowledge of God and therefore the ability to choose whether to adhere to His will or to go against it.\n\nIt therefore follows that if you become a murderer (mass or otherwise), commit rape, deal with children in a disrespectful or inappropriate manner or, indeed, do anything else which is not the way that Jesus - who was God amongst Men - would have behaved, it is down to your choice, not to what was ordained or shown in the stars or anything like that.\n\nWe are who we are, before God.  There are some things He has given us a propensity for ... we must ask Him what He means us to do with these 'tendencies towards Sin'.  Personally, I believe that He made us who we are, so that we should find out new knowledge through our 'tendencies to sin' which will add to and enhance his Kingdom within us.
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Everyone has a choice, God does not "make" Muslims, etc. He may know someone will make choices that turns them into a Muslim, but God values our choices. Look, if God wanted to just let everyone into heaven that loved him, and cast away the rest into hell, he can do so WITHOUT putting us on earth first. But why would he let us be on earth when he knows we wont serve him anyway? Well imagine if you were created straight in hell... You could easily argue, "God I never had a choice to follow you!", but since you were on earth you DID have choices, and so you get to understand why you go to heaven or hell. Remember though, no one goes to hell if they doesn't deserve to be there according to God's judgement. So why didn't God create just Christians? Well, firstly that would be a form of force since we'd all be destined to go to heaven. Secondly, God might use the life of a non-believer to somehow affect another person into believing. If no one was criticising the Bible, for instance, you probably wouln't have historians and archeologists who back up the Biblical claims with as much evidence as possible. If you didn't have those scholars defending the Bible from skeptics, you might not have as many people who believe in the Bible. At the last, remember that God's knowledge and foresight exceeds are own, and what we may not think is "woth it" he does. Plus think about it, do you think us mere humans are worth the sufferings Jesus undertook? I don't want anyone suffering for me, but it just goes to show how sometimes God might do something we think is wrong, but to him it is extreme mercy and love.
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Hell is what you make it as for finding Satan just call for him.  Now for those who thump that bible over this. God is Omnipotent God created everything out of himself and therefore everything is part of god there is no force fighting God for your soul The entire concept is ridiculous unless of course your in the hierarchy of some church and raking the money and power and have this overpowering need to control people because there is evidently something lacking in you own life.. everyone knows God needs money and power..please get real. The greatest lie is not that there is no devil but that there is one
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good point.  you've discovered another fatal flaw in the bible.\n\ngod knows the future and the past.  he already knows how everything turns out.  he already knows who exercises free will, who doesn't, and how they exercise it.  he already knows the outcome.\n\nthere is no need for any of this.  he already knows the future and how we all turn out.\n\nit also begs the question...why would a god put things into motion, when he knows the future, an knows he would have to flood the entire earth, killing everyone?  he already knew that was the future, he knew he'd have to do that.  so why set things in motion when you know you eventually have to kill all your children?\n\nand why inspire a bible, so ridiculous and poorly written that, after over 2000 years, less than 30% of the people on earth believe it?\n\nchristianity is total and utter nonsense, and is based on so many fatal flaws in its own theory, myth and certainly fatal flaws in basic logic, i'm surprised people are really ignorant enough to follow it.
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Duh!u go to hell.  the only reason being because only god has the right to take your life and you can only repent if you're alive you cant repent when youre dead thats why people tell you to repent before you die so you can get to heaven
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Your final destination (heaven or hell) was determined by God before the earth was created.\nEphesians 1: 4-11 .....he chose us in him before the creation of the world...he predestined us...in accordance with his pleasure and will....having been predestined according to his  plan...\nAlso - John 6: 44 & 65; Acts 13:48; Romans 3:10,11, Romans 8:5-14 & 27-30; Romans 9: 11-24; 1 Corinthians 1: 18-31; Ephesians 2: 1-10; Titus 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 2: 11-14; 1 Peter 1: 1,2; 1 Peter 2: 8,9.
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But the question is what this punishment will consist of. Is it eternal torture? Not likely. Apart from major philosophical and ethical issues, the idea of hell as an eternal torture chamber is a primitive and un-Christian notion, a result of early Christianity's loss of ground to patristic, egotistic pagans. \n\nDoes this punishment consist of utter annihilation of the soul in question? Possibly. This is what the Bible seems to be saying.\n\nDoes this punishment consist of selective destruction of the wicked part of the soul in question, and the rest obtaining forgiveness? Possibly. Again, this can be read out of Scriptures.\n\nBut in any of  the above cases, Satan is acting (like he always has been) as an agent of God's will.\n\nTheses are complicated theological issues that require much study, and I am afraid I have not quite done them justice, so forgive me if in my ignorance I have presented something untrue.
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This is the main reason why God created man...to prove Satan wrong when he said "God, you're not fair for casting me into hell-how can a loving God send one of His creatures to Hell?"\n\nHave you heard of Col. R.B. Thieme, Jr. in Houston, TX?
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Well, you would too if you created the ENTIRE universe!  But seriously, God doesn't have an ego, Satan does, and that's why God threw him out of heaven.   No words can properly explain to the fullest who God is, the only way someone can know who God is, is to have a relationship with Him.  My father is an atheist and he wanted my mother who is catholic to raise us without a religion.  So, I grew up knowing in my heart as a child that there was a God, but not having a religion structure to explain to me.  Well, God gave me dreams as a teenager, which eventually led me to get saved when I was 18.  And by the way, God DID appear to people, as Jesus, and will return again in the future.  God doesn't have an ego, He wouldn't have died on the cross and suffered for our salvation.  God loves us and wants whats best for us.  Satan is jealous of God and people because he can't be god, and he can't get saved like humans.  God won't forgive him so he's jealous that God forgives us, and satan tries to lead us down a path of destruction to hell.
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and now they are telling me its "jesus's way" or I go to hell.\n\n\nSo its not even that they are telling me its their way,  but "jesus's way".\n\nThe idea that anyone goes to hell is so absurd. God is love why would God punish anyone.
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one cant, at least THIS one cant.  When something terrible happens and you question gods "wisdom" a religious person will most often come back with god has a plan we just don't know what it is.  Well my point is if there is a god and this god is omnipotent then this god allows all of this terrible stuff to happen.  Now if this god has a plan that lets these things happen FOR WHATEVER REASON then it is not something I would want in my life.  If a person stands idly by and lets pain and suffering befall his fellow man when it is in his/her ability to stop the suffering then they are as much at fault as whatever is causing the suffering.  If a "god" dose the same thing, well its just a perverse sort of thing to put your faith in.
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God does not what you to be damned so he sent Jesus!\n\nWhen you reject him and basically say screw you GOD go away, he does what you ask. \n\nOnce you are dead and do not have GOD stopping you from over comsuming on sin, you will continue to be tortured by not being able to control yourself. Kinda like drug users who destroy there lives for drugs!\n\nBut if god made you a robot so you had no choice to choose or reject him, you would be mad as well, I will post a question called GOd and hell, so you can reply there!\n\n\npart 2\nIt is hard to understand how serious sin is to GOD!  It is hard for me to understand that as simple as GOD's plan for redemption is, people reject it! It is not like GOD set it up so you had to do all these things to work for forgiveness. IF GOD would have required me to do things I could not, then punished me for not being able to do it, I would agree with you. since GOD made it as easy as believing he did all the work and just wants me to believe he did! It is as simple as believing in GOD! \n\n\nI also know GOD characteristics of Love, Mercy, Justice!\n\nIs GOD a sadistic Creator for giving free will? \nIs man sadistic for choosing to be separated from GOD?\nJustice requires consequence for choice!\n\nI rest that when it is done we will agree that GOD acted fairly in Love, Mercy, and Justice.\n\n\nI will check my question for more replies! GOOD Question though!
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Well if you believe in god, then yes i think he should have done (if he was a good person of course). But not for the reason you state.\n\nHe interpreted gods greater book, NATURE!  Why go to hell for that?\n\nWhy believe the manual over the product!  Sorry but if parts of it don't match what we see and observe for ourselves then the book is wrong.\n\nGo here...\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/origins/outline.html