Christians: How can god send to hell those that biologically are unable to lead moral lives?
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We need never fear about God being unjust. He just cannot be. His mercy and justice are from everlasting to everlasting. I therefore have to conclude, that there will be no children in hell. There will also be no retarded, or otherwise mentally-incapacitated individuals there, those who cannot fully comprehend and understand what Christ has accomplished on their behalf at Calvary.
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The name comes from their denial of the doctrine of the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) and their belief that all human beings gain salvation.  The idea that someone might go to hell is not compatible with the character of a loving god.  They refuse to believe in such biblical teachings as total depravity and eternal damnation, but rather embrace the idea of a single loving God who would never cause someone to suffer. They believe that each individual has the right to decide for themselves what to believe in, and that others should not infringe upon this right. As a result, one such believer might lean toward liberal Christianity, while another might lean toward New Age spirituality. There is no real dogma beyond tolerance.
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God IS Love! But as a whole, mankind has rejected God( and His love). \n\nGod DOES NOT send people to hell. He's not willing for ANY to perish. He's simply waiting for you to ask. Is that really so hard!
280970
Thanks for the statistics you provided above.  A true Christian or a ethical person will almost never support torture.  WWJD applies even to agnostics if they are ethical people.  Peace!
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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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There are reasons why God could not save us from sin with a snap of His fingers.  His holy and just character would not allow it.  A payment had to rectify the transgressions committed.\n\nWhat He did though is offer a SOLUTION to the sin problem that  would also lead to eternal life.  The solution was Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son.\n\nCan man just do anything he wants and expect eternal life?  No.  Adam and Eve were given the opportunity to live forever and CHOSE to blow it.  THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES for blowing it, in every aspect of life.  Adam and Eve were no exeption, rather they were mankind's first examples to demonstrated that there are consequences for doing wrong.  Instead of being able to live forever, they would die.\n\nThe consequences to sin then is death.  So, what is the remedy?\n\nSomething had to remedy sin.  There is no darkness in God.  He is holy.  No man could ever see God and live.  He is too holy and full of pure light...beyond our scope of understanding.   Therefore, He had to make a way for us to be able to exist with Him forever in His magnificent glory, splendor, and light.  Sin is darkness and can not abide with light.\n\nIn Leviticus 17:11 God told the Israelites that the life of the body is in the blood. He gave them rules for pouring that blood on the altar. They had to do this in order to cover their sins. \n\nWithout the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins Hebrews tells us.  The blood represents life.  If a sacrifice were made, it would remedy the sin...wash the sin away...cleanse the sinner from the sin.  Why? Because God said so.\n\nIn the TNK, this was temporarily accomplished through animal sacrifices...spotless animals.  The reason for Jesus Christ coming in the flesh was so that he could be the final sacrifice.  He would literally give His life, so that all might live.  He was blameless, he did no sin, therefore he qualified as the "spotless Lamb" of God.  He gave His only begotten Son who was willing to die for the world.\n\nIn the offering the priests shed animal blood, but that blood only provided a cover for sin. Only the blood Christ shed was able to put sin away (Hebrews 9:26)! \n\nCouldn't God have died for us?  No.  God is not a man.  Only a flesh and blood sinless person could be the exchange.  His Son was what He gave, with His Son willlingly doing so.\n\nJesus GAVE his life freely out of love.  It was not "taken" from him.  His blood poured out to cover the sins of all who believe and wash them...freeing them from the bondage of sin.  All sin was imputed to him to reconcile the world to God.  Jesus Christ, through His sacrifice, put the world in a position to be "reconciled" in actuality to God.\n\nReconciliation removes the hatred (Romans 5:10; Colossians 1:21; Ephesians 2:16); reconciliation makes a person clean. Through reconciliation God paid for our sins and put them away (2 Corinthians 5:19; Hebrews 9:26; 1:3). Reconciliation breaks down the walls between God and man (Ephesians 2:14). At one time you and I were the enemies of God. By faith in Christ we brought ourselves back to God (Colossians 1:21). The war is over! God signed a peace treaty in the blood of Christ (Colossians 1:20)! \n\nAnyone, who believes God and His Son can be washed clean by the spilled blood of Christ.  God then, by His loving grace, declares a person "righteous" who has this kind of saving faith.\n\nJust as God raised Christ from the grave to a new body and immortality, so will He do the same for all who believe.  At the first resurrection, and at the last trump, Christ will return.  All in Christ (true Christians) will be changed instantly to an incorruptible, immortal body and person never to sin again and fit to dwell in the light of God.
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you people are sick in the head .yes we live in hell right now noone is safe the churches are so corrupt that you cant trust anyone especially with your children .when you die you will smell the stench of (the burning of the born again} if your leading a life of lies .its not a good smell .you will see an inverted jesus and you will have to chose the path you want to follow .the road to nowhere leads to me.\n\njesus christ looks just like me
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There is something that is called free will.  \n\nYou do not get to do whatever you want and go to heaven . . . . . it is said Jesus will not return to the earth until every person has heard the truth.  You have people who are put in your path in life and they were maybe only there to tell you . . . Jesus loves you and accept him and you will go to heaven.\n\nThat seed was planted, you now have the knowledge and decide to listen or not.\n\nSame with Christians, they can decide to listen to God and follow him or not.  There are Christians that will go to hell.  \n\nThe difference is they know that God is a loving and forgiving God and as long as you are not intentionally sinning and saying you are covered by the spirit, you can and anyone can ask for forgiveness at any time.\n\nBy the way there are different places in heaven . . . . . everyone is not going to the same "level" if you will.
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God does not want anyone to go to hell. He would very much want each and everyone to believe in him and be saved, be baptized, and live for him. We make our own decisions. God will never force himself on us. He wants us to make that decision for ourselves. God doesn't send us to hell, we send ourselves to hell by disobeying God.
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There isn't a hell. The bible speaks of going to hades or sheol, which are both terms for mankinds natural grave without any afterlife. Belief in God can come by reading bible books like Job and Psalms and taking a look at our surroundings. Someone must have made all this. Next, turn to Matthew chapters 5-7 and read Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and use his "outline" of how to pray to do that; to pray to God. Ask for support and forgiveness in an honest and true way. This is where faith then comes in. Works without faith is dead, so have faith in your creator to guide you. May God be with you.
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they go direct to heaven,they didn't make any mistake or sine yet so why god will send them to hell.
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Mr. King is absolutely correct on this one. This is a way of thinking that many people embrace wholeheartedly. Sadly, thinking like this removes much of the concept of "personal responsibility" from the equation of the human condition.\n\nOnce one starts thinking like this, all good can be attributed to god, and all evil blamed on the devil. It's very convenient and allows the person who thinks like this to sit back on their laurels and wait for Judgment Day. \n\nOnce you resign yourself to the idea that suffering cannot be alleviated (except by such things as the sacrifice of Christ [which does little to ease day-to-day suffering]), it's far to easy to not attempt to solve problems in the world.\n\nThis is certainly not to say that there are not many Christians who go out of their way to do what they can. In fact, most of them are pretty bent on doing their share. \n\nHowever, in my opinion, this type of thinking does diminish personal efforts to right greater wrongs.
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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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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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some retarted person who deserves to go to hell
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Worse would be tv evangalists, war lords that murder thousands of people, drug lords. All have even darker secrets in their closets.\n\nAll these people think they are God. Money makes them feel like they are God.\n\nPS How can you burn in hell. Hell was an idea a man created when he wrote a book about heaven and hell. The idea caught on and became "fact" all these years later.\n\nIn the bible;\n\n1. Your body dies. \n2. Your soul goes to heaven.\n3. At the gates of heaven, the book of life is opened.\n4. If your name is in the book of life, you are allowed into heaven.\n5. If your name is NOT in the book of life, you are thrown in the lake of fire where your soul then dies.\n\nPS, you cannot buy your way into heaven. You cannot get into heaven by having a house full of religious objects, religious jewelry around your neck, long white dresses, etc, etc.
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Simple answer:\n\nYou're question is too deep to answer fully in this type of forum, but I will still comment on the basics.\n\nLet me address a few things first. You're question was phrased rather negatively, as if this evil act (stillborn babies) was directly given by God. They are not. (From this point forward let's assume God exists and the Bible is His word so that things make sense at least in this thread).\n\nThe Bible says that God is all good and all powerful. So if evil and suffering exists (stillborn babies) why doesn't God stop it? Well, first off God can easily stop it. That much is obvious. The second half is less obvious.\n\nGod says He created adam and eve perfect, sinless, without suffering, in a perfect world, living in God's presence. God also gave them free will to either choose God or reject Him. They opted for the latter. Because of that man separated himself from God and was unable to return to Him by themselves (God fixed the problem by sending Jesus but that is a topic for a different post). Now God could have stopped them from sinning but that would have been pointless. Imagine being a parent and stopping your kid from rejecting you thereby forcing them to love you. That would be torture and would turn your kids into mere robots and slaves. God wanted people to frelly choose Him so He had to give the ability to reject Him and also to face the consequences of that action otherwise people would never learn from doing bad things (ie If I killed someone and then God instantly resurrected that person, I would feel no guilt or shame because my bad actions would have no consequences). To make a long story short we now live in a world riddled with disease and suffering because this is all the consequences of bad actions that we are forced to live with. These consequences lead to such horrible things like stillborn babies. \n\nDoes God want that? no. Will the baby go to heaven? In my opinion yes. Does God use even such a horrible event like a stillborn child to bring about an even greater good? In my opinion yes. Does that mean I know what that is? no. I believe it on faith just like every other believer in God, that even though suffering and evil exists, God uses it all to bring about even greater good. An example would include Jesus being beaten and spit upon and being crucified (this would be evil and suffering) and using that event to actually bring about the salvation of all mankind to whomever will believe (which is what happened).\n\nI hope this answered your question and helps.