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Heaven or Hell? Where's you spend your eternity is your choice.

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The question is why would a loving god create hell and terrorize children with the threat?
Adstar · 56-60, M
@BlueSkyKing
God is perfect..

Gods eternal existence is perfect..

God cannot allow imperfection to enter into His perfect eternity..

If God allowed imperfect beings to enter His perfect eternity then it would no longer be perfect..

So God being perfect cannot be corrupt in allowing anything imperfect to enter eternity..

Once God is shown to be corrupt he is no longer God..

God therefore will transform and make perfect the imperfect human beings to make them worthy of entering into his perfect eternal existence..

God must be justified in transforming the imperfect..

God paid the penalty for the transgressions of the imperfect by suffering the death sentence on the cross.. the penalty all sinners faced..

People acknowledging their imperfection and trusting in the Atonement the LORD secured on the cross allows God to justly forgive all the imperfections of a human..

It is just to forgive the repentant..

Thus He can then justly transform them into perfected eternal beings, acceptable to enter into a relationship with him in His eternal existence..

In the end people are not condemned for being imperfect.. They end up being condemned because they rejected the gift of Gods loving forgiveness.. They reject Gods offer to Redeemed them..
Oberon1 · 61-69, M
@Adstar Romans chapter 8, and a few other of Paul's letters, skilfully paraphrased. Excellent.
Lichocolati · 36-40, F
@BlueSkyKing Who said God created hell. That place is the work of the devil himself.
@Lichocolati (P)robably the worst of all of Jesus’ ideas is the teaching of hell. He did not invent the concept of eternal punishment, but the promotion of the Christian doctrine of hell originated with Jesus. In the Old Testament, hell is just death or the grave. With Jesus, hell became a place of everlasting torment. In Mark 9:43, Jesus said that hell is “the fire that never shall be quenched.” In Matthew 13:41- 42, Jesus gives us a graphic (and almost gleeful) description of the place he created: “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: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Hitler’s gas ovens were horrendous and the suffering was unspeakable, but they did not burn forever. The murdered victims of the Holocaust suffer no more, but the victims of God’s anger will scream forever and ever.
Lichocolati · 36-40, F
@BlueSkyKing I don't see where it says God created hell.
@Lichocolati If you don't believe God created hell then you must believe in a creator other than God.