Posted on 12/06/2004 12:44:58 PM PST by Lindykim
"Is it morally and theologically acceptable to hope anyone goes to hell? ... One...need not be a conservative Christian to believe in some form of hell for the evil. All one need be is a rational believer in a just God. For if there is a just God, it is inconceivable that those who do evil and those who do good have identical fates. A just God must care about justice, and since there is little justice in this world, there has to be in the next. And belief in the next world is also not confined to Christianity. As the Encyclopedia Judaica ... (edited largely by non-religious Jews) notes in the first sentence under the heading 'Afterlife,' 'Judaism has always believed in an afterlife.' ... Much of humanity has been adversely affected by modern-day terror. The lives of millions -- virtually all Palestinians and Israelis, for example -- have been terribly affected by Arafat. And there are hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have been destroyed or shattered by him. At the same time, other than a few sycophants enriched by some of the billions of dollars he embezzled from the Palestinians, no one has had a better life because Yasser Arafat lived. ... Yasser Arafat single-handedly made nihilistic acts of cruelty routine, even respectable. ... Thanks to him, the Palestinian name is identified among people of goodwill with barbarity just as the German name came to be associated with barbarity as a result of Hitler. ... Just as any decent human being would want good people to be rewarded in whatever existence there is after this life, they would want the cruelest of people to be punished. So, of course, I hope Yasser Arafat is in hell. ... If you think that is hard-hearted, consider the alternative, that one of the most corrupt and cruel human beings of the past half-century is resting in peace. Whoever isn't bothered by that is the one with the hard heart." --Dennis Prager
Matthew 7:1
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Dunno and don't care but sure pray araRATfink is hell.
No.
"If there's hell below, we're all gonna go."
Better to wish that they recognize their sins, repent, and make amends.
God doesn't desire that anyone perish. It would have been great to see Arafat repent of his sins, confess all of his evil deeds, and then ask his fellow Pali's to honor Israel as God's chosen people.
"Is It Morally Acceptable To Hope Anyone Goes To Hell?"
I'm not greedy-their just being dead is enough for me.
Yep, it's not acceptable to wish someone goes to Hell.
Jesus died for everyone's sins, even mine.
The only parable Jesus explained was about picking weeds . . . .
I hope so. Otherwise I'm in real trouble.
Even the 9/11 hijackers and so on?
For us Catholics, it's a bit easier to avoid hoping that specific individuals will go to Hell.
Believing in Purgatory, we figure someone could repent on their deathbed, endure a coupla million years of suffering in Purgatory, and still avoid eternal damnation.
Wasn't there a book yearts ago, by one of Bill Buickley's sisters, or relatives.."Will Mrs. (something) go to hell?" ?
No.
You don't know the heart of the Father. He is not willing that any should perish. While we were ALL yet sinners, He died for us. You need to get in the scriptures and study what He says about such things.
I am not a Christian.
( So I guess that mrsnd I am hell-bound in your book! )
I don't know ANY Christians who actively hope as you are proposing.
All of the REAL Christians I know, ( and i have actually met a few) would instead hope and pray that a sinner changes his ways and repents.
Merry Christmas.
No. Mr. Prager is wrong.
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