would a righteous god send his creation to hell ?
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I wish I had a dime for every time this question comes up to show the inaccuracy of the bible. Let me use some applied logic, you are standing before a judge with a rap sheet, you look at the judge and say "I believe you are a good man (the judge is a good man, he donates lots of money to charity he has a list of awards for helping people, on and on and on) so that is why I think you won't send me to prison" (a nervous smile) would the judge be loving and kind to let you go? In that same moment would he be JUST to let you go? Let's say that your list of crimes was two miles long, should he just forgive your debt and let you go?\n\nThis is God. He is love, but He is HOLY, JUST. He punishes sin. That is why people who do not take His payment for sin go to hell.
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Personally, I feel that Evil would have just had ultimate reign.  For creation to cease to exist, wouldn't God have to make it so?  It doesn't seem like God's character to just give up like that.\n\nThen again, God knows everything that is going to happen, so if he *had* bowed down, maybe God would have had another plan to fix the matter?
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cause he did not obet God and God created all and the devil is just agaist it.....but its all good.......casue the day will come where he will be in Hell burning for ever and ever and ever ...and im sure u got the point
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Sure! unless God is forcing Satan to be bad, the repentance of Satan is possible.
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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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I don't believe that all nonchristians will go to Hell, for that exact reason.  I cannot accept the idea that millions of innocents could be condemned to eternal suffering just because they didn't get the message.
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Does that primitive fairy tale sound right to you?  For example why wouldn't Satan use his powers to make Hell really nice so that people wanted to go to Hell?  He could gain power by being nice.  The whole good and evil nonsense in the Bible is really very silly if you actually analyze it.
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How many lost souls are being punished in hell today? \n \n  \nThe wicked will not be punished until after the judgment.  \n"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished." 2 Peter 2:9. \n\nAnswer: There is not one single soul in hellfire today. The Bible says that God reserves, or holds back, the wicked until the day of judgment to be punished.  \n\nWhen will sinners be cast into hellfire? \n \n  \nSinners will be cast into hellfire at the end of the world -- not when they die.  \n"So shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire." Matthew 13:40-42. "The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." John 12:48. \n\nAnswer: Sinners will be cast into hellfire at the great judgment day at the end of the world--not when they die. God would not punish a person in fire until his case was tried and decided in court at the end of the world. Nor would God burn a murderer who died 5,000 years ago 5,000 years longer than one who dies and deserves punishment for the same sin today.  \n\nWhere are sinners (who have died) now? \n \n  \nAll who have died, both good and evil, are in their graves awaiting the resurrection.  \n"The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." John 5:28, 29. "The wicked is reserved to the day of destruction." "Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb." Job 21:30, 32. \n\nAnswer: The Bible is specific. Both the wicked and the righteous who have died are in their graves "sleeping" until the resurrection day.  \n\nWhat will happen to the wicked in hellfire? \n \n"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Revelation 21:8.   \nThe wicked are not immortal. The Bible says they will "perish", "burn up" and "be destroyed".  \n\n\nAnswer: The wicked die the second death in hellfire. If the wicked lived forever being tortured in hell, they would be immortal. But this is impossible, because the Bible says God "only hath immortality." 1 Timothy 6:16. When Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden, an angel was posted to guard the tree of life so that sinners would not eat of the tree and "live for ever." Genesis 3:22-24. The teaching that sinners are immortal in hell originated with Satan and is completely untrue. God prevented this when sin entered this earth by guarding the tree of life.\n\n\nBible Clear--Wicked Obliterated\nThe Bible says the wicked suffer "death" (Romans 6:23), will suffer "destruction" (Job 21:30), "shall perish" (Psalms 37:20), will "burn" up (Malachi 4:1), "shall be destroyed together" (Psalms 37:38), will "consume away" (Psalms 37:20), "shall be cut off" (Psalms 37:9), "shall be slain" (Psalms 62:3). God will "destroy" them (Psalms 145:20), and "fire shall devour them" (Psalms 21:9). Note that all of these references make it clear that the wicked die and are destroyed. They do not live forever in misery.
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Good question, but everyone will not go to Heaven.\nDo you think for one minute a loving, almighty God would allow His only Son to go thru such misery if there were not a choice?\nDon't you think He would have chosen another way if there had been another way to redeem mankind?\nYahshua HAD to be the lamb that was slain.  Blood had to be shed.\nWithout the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
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nope. if hell DOES exist then god is not all loving. if god i no lal loving then he isnt worthy of the title "god".
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God in heaven No! Then it really would be armageddon!
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If there is a God and this God designed you and me with a brain designed to think, use logic and reason to solve problems and determine truth, then he would expect us to use it.  How in heaven and on earth could a just God punish us for questioning what is very illogical and very unreasonable?  To believe in something that we can't see and that which can't be proven.  Would God punish us for using the brain he gave us?  I don't think so.\n\nSo, if I am wrong about not believing the God described in the Bible, then it is just as well.   Because he would be a cruel joker to give me a brain and then punish me in eternal fires of hell for using it.  And how about all the good Buddhists in the world who don't believe in the God of the Bible.  He's going to damn them to hell also?\n\nThat would be a cruel and unjust God.  Right or wrong, I don't want any part of the Judeo-Christian God.
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That depends on the definition of sin and if it really exists.  It also depends on the definition of hell and if hell really exists.\n\nIf you wish to go to a place called Hell, there is a little town called Hell, Michigan.  You may go there in the winter one day when it has frozen over as a joke as I have done.  It was a bit more convenient for me, however, as I was taking a cousin to the Detroit airport and we had some spare time that winter to goof off.
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This version of Hell is non-existent.  Hell is an eternity in the absence of God.  Fire and brimstone is a man made myth.
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Hell doesn't exist as most peole think of it.  \n\nHell is GOING to happen. It isn't happening now.  It can't be because God is just and fair.  Why would he burn Cain--for slugging his brother and killing him--for 6,000 years longer than Hitler--who tortured and killed millions of people?  God wouldn't do that.  He says he will come and in Thessalonians he says "the dead in Christ shall rise first, and then those which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with Him in the clouds and so shall we ever be with the Lord."  So there IS a resurrection. And He says "the judgement shall set..." so the judgement will happen at the end of time. "Then shall the wicked be BURNED UP like stubble."  \nAlso, if people were going to burn forever it wouldn't say they go to everlasting 'punishment' (as in the RESULT of their being punished is forever), it would say they go to everlasting 'punishing.' And it doesn't. And the Bible wouldn't say, "From dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." \nSin cannot exist in God's presence and will be zapped by the brightness of His coming--at the resurrection. So hell is for the people who love sin and hold on to it. People who must hold on to sin will get zapped, too: Natural result. But Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments." So those who love Him won't be holding onto sin and won't get zapped.\n\nAlso if people were burning in Hell forever, people would live forever, and the Bible says, "The soul that sinneth. It shall die."  You can't be dead and alive (in hell or anywhere else) at the same time, can you?\n\nSo now that you've had a little enlightenment on what hell is and isn't:  I'd run it just like that. Cuz God never makes mistakes.
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Verry bad! He should go to hell and meet his maker.
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The book of Jude. Verse 6 You can try looking in second Peter 2:4 also. This biblical Hell is Tartaroo. I don't know if Hell was actually created for Satan and his demons, but I know Tartaroo was.