IF there is a God, would he punish me by setting my house on fire?
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Hey, at least he'll be giving you free heating! Or maybe it's a trial version of Hell !? Ohhh! Isn't that where all the nasty hypocrites go!? You know, like the one's that go on about Philipino girls??
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A very good question.\n\nNobody likes to think their loved ones are bad people or that their own heaven will exclude the things or people that they love. It is a no win argument, either the God/Gods will punish the wrong doers and in the process do evil to the person who did no wrong, or the God/Gods have to forgive everyone for their crime and heaven will be open for everyone even if they don't believe.\nMaybe there is a true God that does not punish and the Gods we all hear about are all just the Devil, making threats and forcing people to follow them. Even more radical would a true loving God exclude anyone? or even judge people?
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no\n\n"hell" is a mistranslation. it always means the "grave", biblically anyway. there is a lake of fire referred to. In it, evil people will be destroyed, not eternally tormented.\n\nheaven is a temporary dwelling until such time as God sets up paradise on earth, as recorded in the book of revelations. we will live together in paradise with Jesus and God will dwell among us.
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well i don't believe in hell so i'll use a similar question.\nIf a man kidnapped your brother and sister and abducted your mother grandmother and father, and they were being tortured and he said that if you take their place, they'll all go live in florida in a huge house with free food. Would you do it?\n\nMy answer:yes
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A God that may give permisson to 'slavery' can approve practically anything else. Nailing and sodomizing included.\nThe question is: Would you follow such a God?
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If 'ya play with fire, you will get burnt!!  I will pray for you.
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Choose what you want. Is it the logical one, or one that pictures God as cruel?\n\nRev 20:14; 21:8. Hades and death, fornicators, murderers, those practicing spiritism are hurled into the lake of fire, and sulfur. This lake of fire means 2nd death.\n\nEccl 9:5,6. The dead knows nothing, no knowledge, nor wisdom in sheol.\n\nIf you want logic: that lake of fire and sulfur means total destruction. Just like throwing paper or wood into fire--they are gone.It is really absurd--or senseless--to say that death and hades will be tortured forever in that lake of fire.\n\nNow if you want to picture God as cruel, just reverse the sentence in Rev 20:14. It will read like: 2nd death means the lake of fire and sulfur. Add to that Jesus parable re. Lazarus and the rich man. And you have an idea why preachers can frighten you with eternal hell-fire torment.\n\nTop that by calling those who disagree as HERETICS, or Cult members, or Infidels (if you are a Muslim)\n\nTo encourage others to inflict punishment on disbelievers deliver a stirring sermon: 'those who die as martyrs, get 72 virgins in heaven'.\n\nNow, do you get the idea of heaven, or hell-fire doctrine?\n\ngood night.
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I'd tell him go to HELL!!
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I do not believe that god punishes at all.  We simply experience the consequences of our actions.
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dude what the hell is wrong with you? No God wouldnt need any help creating the universe. he would have it created in 1 second with a snap of his finger. and dont you dare question God ever!. God has done nothing wrong to you all he ever does is look after you and this is his thanks.
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No he isn't! Your insulting God! That is Blasphemy! You will go to HELL! You shouldn't be on this universe in the first place! Blasphemer! Blasphemer! Blasphemer! Blasphemer! Blasphemer! Blasphemer! Blasphemer! Blasphemer! Blasphemer! Blasphemer...
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You can burn flags, bible, books, anything you want really, as long as it belongs to you and doesn't pose threat to people or objects near the flame.\n\nAs far as Korans go? Go ahead and burn one and just wait for the Islamofascists to rape your daughter to teach you a lesson about respect for the "peaceful religion"
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According to some Christians, apparently. However, I was lucky to be born in a non Christian country, India, and I have a strong belief in Hinduism, despite being offered the opportunity to "see the light" on numerous occasions. I am sure that Krishna would not make me burn in Hell for my beliefs. All Gods are one, all people will eventually be with God. God is the ultimate source of compassion, the all forgiving, and God would not allow anybody to suffer eternal hellfire.
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What If The Lord Were To Come Right Now? Would You Know For Sure, Without A Doubt, That You Would Go Heaven? \n\nMay I tell you my story?\n\nMy story relates to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\n\nWho is this Jesus?\n\nWe can know how to have eternal life!\n1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, [even] unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God. \n\nThere was a time in my life when I was confused, because of all the different churches out there. Which one do I believe, because they all teach different things?\n\nJust because I was raised by my parents to believe certain things does that make everyone else wrong? No.\nI got to thinking in life there are life and death statements.\nFor instance let's say your house catches on fire. Someone comes up in the middle of the night and raps on the window and shouts "get out of the house, the house is on fire." Well you know you wouldn't need an interpreter or call a few friends over and ask them what it means when someone says your house is on fire. No you wouldn't do that it is so clear what you should do. You understand you simply have to act on it and get out of the house. Well I got to thinking the Bible talks about there being an everlasting punishment. I believe this is Gods word. I thought God must have some life and death statements. Like get out of the house the house is on fire. Does God have some statements like believe this and you will live do this and you will die? He does. \n\nThen, what has been written? \n\nJohn 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.\n\nWell I know what that means. Unless I believe that Jesus is who he says he is I will die in my sins.\n\nIsn't this a life and death statement?\n\nThen who is this Jesus? \n\nLet's go exploring. \n\nMatthew 16:13-17 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of man is? 14 And they said, Some [say] John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. 15 He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven. \n\nWhose son is he? "God's son"\nIn other words Jesus says you are right.\n\nWell you know I got to thinking what does it mean to believe he is the son of God? So I kept reading.\n\nIs he being the son of God all we must believe concerning His identity? \n\nJohn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\n\nAnd I kept reading.   \n\nJust being the son of God...Is God. Notice here: \nJohn 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth. \n\nWell here Jesus is claiming to be the son of God and God at the same time. \n\nAll Jesus is saying is that he is the same as his parents. Jesus mother was human and father was God. That makes him 100% human and 100% God.\n\nIs that important that Jesus is a 100% God and man? Remember John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.\n\nWhen Jesus came to earth, did he leave his Godhead in Heaven? \n\nColossians 2:9 for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, \nNotice that Jesus is 100% man and 100% God.  \n\nHere God the Father calls his own son God.\n\nHebrews 1:1, 8 God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, \n8 but of the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. \n\nQuote above taken fr
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my guess is that God finds appalling
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Deutoronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, \n11  Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. \n12  For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
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No.\n\nWould it be ok for YOU to murder if you didn't have to answer to the "higher law" of your deity?