Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: smith288
This moment you have on Earth is short and quick compared to the certain painful longevity of an eternal fire.

What kind of monster would send someone to eternal fire for any reason, let alone for using their brain. You have strange gods.

36 posted on 06/17/2002 5:39:19 AM PDT by jlogajan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies ]


To: jlogajan
For using his devine work against him and damning him for giving you the honor of living? Sounds extremely reasonable to me.
39 posted on 06/17/2002 5:42:26 AM PDT by smith288
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ]

To: jlogajan
What kind of monster would send someone to eternal fire for any reason,...

Look in the mirror. You're the one damning yourself to hell--He's giving you the opportunity to escape.

41 posted on 06/17/2002 5:44:14 AM PDT by ShadowAce
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ]

To: jlogajan
What kind of monster would send someone to eternal fire for any reason, let alone for using their brain. You have strange gods.

No, not at all. A loving God, who wishes and hopes for every man and woman to embrace ultimate good, is forced to reject those who have rejected forcefully and unrepentantly such an invitation. Unrepentant murderers of men, women and children, unrepentant child molesters, unrepentant ruiners of peoples' lives (i.e., evil people) get thrown into eternal fire not because God has forced them to go. Rather, it is because they have put themselves there of their own free will. God (for Christians and Jews, anyway), wants very badly not to have people reject total goodness, and offers any person who has committed atrocious acts a path back to goodness (through forgiveness and redemption). Those who go to hell have turned their back on goodness. That is not God's doing.

44 posted on 06/17/2002 5:46:13 AM PDT by yendu bwam
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ]

To: jlogajan
What kind of monster would send someone to eternal fire for any reason, let alone for using their brain. You have strange gods.

One who desires justice such as we will never know on this earth,

who desires acknowledgement of him as father and creator (he has placed it in all mens hearts to know him, it takes work over years to deny him),

and one who used his "brain" to create all, including all the science you will ever know over a lifetime. We cannot ever expect to know fully the mind of God, we are but men...

144 posted on 06/17/2002 7:44:07 AM PDT by dubyagee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ]

To: jlogajan
Exactly which theology has God sending people to Hell? I've read a variety of Christian theologies and none have God sending people to Hell. People send themselves to Hell by choosing to live apart from God. In death as in life, right? Seems fair to me. Then again, you're about as bad as VadeRetro. You offer zilch to these threads. You are here out of some set of psycho-masturbatory needs and/or frustrations you have, the origins of which I can only begin to speculate on.
162 posted on 06/17/2002 7:56:48 AM PDT by That Subliminal Kid
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ]

To: jlogajan
What kind of monster would send someone to eternal fire for any reason, let alone for using their brain.

God doesn't "send" anyone anywhere they haven't already chosen to go.

You have strange gods.

You have a strange notion of the Christian God.

251 posted on 06/17/2002 9:11:50 AM PDT by ksen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson