God doesn't hate the sinner yet he sends the sinner to hell, what gives?
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The only punishment that willfully wicked people receive from God is that they will instantly be put out of existance without torture or pain, but they will have no hope of a resurrection.  Satan and his demons will also receive the same fate. \nHell is not a place of eternal torment like Christendom teaches. The Bible hell is where all people go when they die. It is the common grave. \nHow do we know that hell is the grave? Well, we can read many verses in God's Word that assures us of that fact. Here are but a few:\n\nPsalm 139:8--"If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there." (If hell is a fiery,hot place of torture, would David think God (Psalms 83:18) would be there ?)\nAmos 9:2--"Though they dig into hell, From there My hand shall take them; Though they climb up to heaven, From there I will bring them down." ( Can you dig into fire? No, but you can dig into the earth and God can find you no matter where you try to hide.)\nJonah 2:2--"And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice." ( The belly of the fish would have been Jonah's grave, if God had not rescued him.)\nEcclesiates 3:19,20--"For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again." \n( Humans and animals go to the same place when they die)\nRevelation 1:18--"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." (Why would Jesus need keys to hell? Because the dead do not have to stay in hell forever; they can be resurrected back to life.) \nRevelation 20:13-14--"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." (Hell delivers up the dead, meaning a resurrection from the grave), and what happens to death & hell? They are thrown into the lake of fire, meaning total destruction. \nJehovah is a God of love and justice and he tortures no one.
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God had a choice. he chose to send them to Hell
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God is perfect goodness. The cost for sinning just one time is eternity in hell. The only way to get forgiveness of sin is belief in the ONE pure sacrafice that God has given us. It's not something you have to bargain for, it's just there waiting for you to take it. If you are a good person, but don't have the sense to take salvation when it is offered so freely then it's your fault. God does not send anyone to hell, they send themselves by rejecting him. It is not his will that anyone should perish.
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Definitely, Hell is very real. Why do you think there is hate and sin in the world now. Satan is trying to gain as many followers as he can before Jesus comes again. Satan (AKA Lucifer) was "booted" out of heaven when God realized that Lucifer (his favorite angel at that time) wanted to be God because Lucifer was jealous of God.
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I don't believe in the Christian and Jewish God,but sometimes I hate the idea of him.He is very evil and unfair.How could a loving God punish humankind for the wrongdoings of two people?How could an all-knowing God not know that eve would eat the apple?How could God send people to hell for not believing something that has no proof whatsoever?I don't really like this perception of God.
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because we all sin we all deserve hell but god sent his son to die for us and take the pain of our sin so all we have to do is ask for fogiveness and to believe in him and to know that it is our fault he had to die on the cross (he did all this because he loves us)
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You are correct. God is not capable of simply forgiving someone, as you and I are; he must kill someone in order to do it. In the Old Testament, he required that animals die every single day so that he could forgive the Israelites. This worked just fine for thousands of years, and then one day God just wasn't satisfied. I guess the novelty of animal sacrifices wore off and he needed a human sacrifice. But not just ANY old human sacrifice, this one had to be special, so he sent his Holy Spirit to Earth to impregnate a teenage girl (does that count as sex with a minor?), then he arranged for the resulting offspring--his own son--to die.  Only then was God able to forgive everyone.\n\nOr was he? People are supposedly forgiven for every bad thing they ever did or will do, yet they are required to beg forgiveness, anyway, every time they do something bad. And if they do a lot of bad things, they get sent to eternal punishment...even though God forgave them.
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God does not stop loving you no matter what you do. God loves killers and homosexuals and republicans and everyone else.\n\nI do not understand why God chooses to punish us for sinning, but rest assured that he does not do it out of hate. God wants us to make our own decisions to worship him or not because God is very insecure and needs the unforced love of his creations to feel whole, but just as you can love or a child even when they have done bad, the sky daddy loves you.
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Nope. he had the concept of damnation all wrong. God never wills for anyone to go to Hell. In fact, it pains him to see so many people go there. He want's everyone to be saved, but it is only by faith.
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No,just like people who were raised with a different religion throughout their childhood doesn't go to hell.There is no hell.Everything that we are is the way God intended it to be;If it wasn't,it wouldn't be.Man made the concepts of good and bad,not God.In reality nothing is really good or bad,it's our thoughts that make them so.
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Excellent question, for those who hold that Jesus preached in hell, moreover how can Jesus be so much more loving than the God of the Old Testament when he is going to damn most of mankind to eternal punishment for not liking him and that was never the case before? If that's love....
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Actually, this question is easily answered by bible doctrine. NO, God cannot. There are many things God can't do. Who ever said God can do anything? God can't hate, at least not literally. God can only "hate" in the sense of an anthropopathic analogy, such as when He was said to "hate" Esau. God can't lie, break a promise, die, hurt, be sad, allow a saved person to enter Hell, allow an unsaved person to enter heaven, or fail to provide logistical grace support to a believer. God can't be unjust, wrong, weak,  stupid, not present, and He cannot change. He cannot fall in love( because He is love 24/7). \n\nBasically God cannot do anything that would violate His essence. His essence is Sovereignty, Righteousness, Justice, Eternal Life, Love, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, And Truth. These 10 characteristics describe perfectly the 3 members of the Trinity, and no one else. I'm glad God is bound by who He is.\n\nYou don't need to defend yourself against Christian bashers. God is not worried about them or threatened by them, why should you be? Keep the Faith, Bro!
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Kinda wierd isn't it? Specially when he tells everyone there going to hell but not these two. WHy?
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God hates sin, not the people who commit them.\nthat woman goes too far parading around funerals and stuff.\nYes, God hates homosexuality, but not the men/women who do it. He wants to forgive them (if they will ask) and welcome them into his family.\nUnfortunately, sin keeps us separated from God.
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Dear Bill, I would Like to explain why a person goes to hell and Howwe can escape the consequences of hell. I would like to ask you a few questions.............\n\nHave you ever lied (even once--fibs, white lies, etc.)? Ever stolen (anything--the value is irrelevant)? Jesus said, "Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery already with her in his heart." Have you ever looked with lust? If you have said "Yes" to these three questions, by your own admission, you are a lying, thieving, adulterer at heart; and we’ve only looked at three of the Ten Commandments. Nothing you’ve ever done is hid from His holy eyes. Will you be innocent or guilty on the Day of Judgment? Listen to your conscience. You know that you will be guilty, and therefore end up in Hell. That’s not God’s will. He provided a way for you and I to be forgiven. \nHe sent His Son to take our punishment: "God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." He was bruised for our iniquities. Jesus then rose from the dead and defeated death. \nYour own so-called “goodness” can’t get you into heaven any more than mine could.  Jesus is the only way to Heaven. He is the "Door," the only "mediator." There is salvation in no other name, and if you will repent (turn from sin) and place your faith and trust in jesus, God will forgive you of your sins and grant you eternal life. A person dosent go to Hell because they are foolish, but raher because they have trasgressed the Law. Please, turn from sin and trust in the savior today.\nGod Bless\nWDJD
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You've gotta be kidding!  What kind of a father would send his son to die an excruciating death on the cross in order that others are no longer responsible for their own sins?  What kind of a God would send most of his followers to eternal punishment for not "believing?"  What would you think of human fathers who would act in this way?  Loving or vicious?\n\nThe OT God is a God of justice.  Each of us is punished in accordance with the sins we've committed.  The OT God doesn't differentiate between "beliefs" of Christians, Muslims, atheists, etc., but He does insist on self responsibility!
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No amount of me telling you what is and what not ain't gonna convince you,The fact that u r asking this question is because deep down you know u r wrong,The christian God as u put it, and satan r not equal and whomever came up with the idea you being taught against the bible with the bible is really cunning must be the devil himself,Let me tell you what my God give me that no demon in hell can give you peace.God treated lucifer unjust r u kidding me? God could have killed him he should have, but look around you all the wickedness thats happening the Devil is very well in charge.Do you know your lucifer talk to God see in Job when God said to him have u considered my son Job he said To God do u think job serve u for nothing meaning the omly reason y job serve God is because he was rich God said to him take all he has Job stayed true to God anyways your devil is gonna burn in hell along with anyone who serve him, you can prove God for yourself just talk to him.Say if u r really up there do something to let me know u r real