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	How can a loving God send people to Hell? By itinary Asked Nov 3 2009 12:58PM	45 Pts Rate Question

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by Ron C on Nov 11, 2009 at 7:59 am Permalink

It looks like the religious believe that we are born destined for hell unless god intervenes. That is a heck of a way to run a religion.

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Ron C Nov, 13 2009 at 05:33 AM

Yeah, the first 4.2 billion slipped by so fast, all I remember is the last 60 or so years. There is a new project that was just launched. They are testing solar sails but as you suggested, they only work in the solar system. Not much light pressure outside a solar system. I am confident the problem of light travel will be solved if we can start spending money on research instead of the military. Just imagine how much we could have learned if them money wasted on useless wars was spent for education and research. Ironically most of the wars are based on religious and political philosophy.

leetmeat Nov, 13 2009 at 05:42 AM

Actually I meant 4.6billion years. Believe me us geologists can't remember all the dates of epochs either.
Well, when we do develop that technology for interstellar travel, you can be assured the military will immediately start figuring out ways to kill better with it. They'll even be able to go discover whole new planets of stuff to kill!

Ron C Nov, 13 2009 at 05:58 AM

Oh, a geologist, I became an electronic engineer because I couldn't remember formulas, just how to work them out. Not good at memorizing times and dates.
I think that we will de-emphasize the military. That's why I support education in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, and especially the U.S. Well educated people are more likely to find ways out of problems that don't involve blowing up your neighbor. The last few years have shown that the less secular education and more religious education a population has, the more likely they will resort to violence.
I believe U.S. universities should be low cost of free to citizens that qualify. 1 month of the war in Iraq would pay for thousands to get doctorates in the U.S.

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by Schonberg on Nov 3, 2009 at 1:50 pm Permalink

Nobody will go to hell when they die,even if they do not believe in God.Anybody who beleives that a loving God would send people to hell is living in cloud cuckoo land.

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Texasescimo Nov, 10 2009 at 01:52 PM

A loving God does seem incompatible with conscious torture for eternity. I wouldn't want to say they are living in cuckoo land though. There are many sincere people that believe that. There preachers make a good living at telling them that so they are misled. http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/7280403

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by alvaro on Nov 3, 2009 at 1:07 pm Permalink

Hell was created for the Devil and his angels. God made a way for us to escape hell. If we don't take the path that he has made and we end up in hell, it's not God's fault.

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Moongrim Nov, 12 2009 at 05:20 AM

And you don't Randoley?

ExactlyTwentyLetters Nov, 12 2009 at 05:42 AM

Where in the Bible does it say that Hell was created by Satan?

Randoley Nov, 12 2009 at 08:39 AM

No I don't Moony, I follow what God wrote about Himself in the Bible.

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by Randoley on Nov 12, 2009 at 3:42 am Permalink

How can people ask this question a thousand times and think they are being clever?

I have never seen anyone asking this question who wants a real answer. They are looking foe an argument or looking for a chance to preach their idea of God.

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ExactlyTwentyLetters Nov, 12 2009 at 09:11 AM

Does God know what "choices" I am going to make before I am born? If he does then it isn't really a "choice" at all because that means it is predetermined.
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What I am saying is this, if God knows when He is creating me that I am going to go to Hell when I die that means that there is 0% chance that I will go to Heaven...that means that the choice has already been made because from the time I am born I don't really have a choice because God already KNOWS that I am going to Hell.

Randoley Nov, 12 2009 at 09:58 AM

He does know, but he isn't in control of you. There have been times when God has changed His plan, because people have changed their minds.

ExactlyTwentyLetters Nov, 12 2009 at 10:10 AM

So God doesn't know "everything"?

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by subtlesledgehammer on Nov 3, 2009 at 1:01 pm Permalink

Hell is what we create, both on earth and beyond.

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itinary Nov, 10 2009 at 11:46 AM

thanks +5. Great answer.

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by warex255 on Nov 12, 2009 at 3:26 am Permalink

I just figured out something. God is flawed. People say that god is perfect but if he was he wouldn't be jelous if someone worships another god. Then his stupidity in giving the people the ten comandments but being himself above them and telling people to brake one of the rules which would give you a one way ticket to hell.

To the question. God isn't loving he is not even real. Since he has the exact same emotions that humans do. So he doesn't love anyone expect his mindless bible humpers.

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Randoley Nov, 12 2009 at 03:32 AM

I just think your understanding of God is flawed.

warex255 Nov, 12 2009 at 04:24 AM

I doubt that.

leetmeat Nov, 12 2009 at 07:41 AM

I think you're beginning to understand why portrayals of god or gods by various faiths don't make sense unless you "play along" and have "faith." They're the creation of man, and a reflection of their values and concerns at the time of that person or group of people within whatever culture. Keep being objective about everything in life and it will lead to more insight then you thought possible.

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by Touch_of_The_Masters_Hand on Nov 12, 2009 at 6:22 am Permalink

You got it wrong. God doesn't send anyone to hell. We send ourselves to hell by choosing to be disobedient to his commandments. You can't be a fornicator an adultetrer a thief a liar a murderer etc and expect to go to heaven. If you choose the things of the world over the things of God that is your choice to make. Afterall God did give us all free agency to make our own choices. With those choices though comes consequences. Choose to follow the ways of the world and disobey God's law and being cast into hell is the consequence for disobedience. It is like your parents when you were growing up. If you disobeyed then there was probably some sort of punishment for disobeying them. It didntmean they didn't love you because they punished you for being. bad. They did it out of love and because they wanted you to grow up to be a decent productive member of society. Its the same with God.. he is the father of our souls and he cannot allow us to continually ne disobedient to his laws without some sort of repercussions for that disobedience.

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by Blessed has a COAT of many colors on Nov 12, 2009 at 5:37 am Permalink

I don't know. Do you think people like Casey Anthony, Scott Peterson, Anthony Sowell, or John Allen Mohammed should be given a get into heaven free pass?

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by sorelsuarez on Nov 12, 2009 at 5:37 am Permalink

I would say it even stranger than he sends to his own son to be tortured and killed. No father would ever do that.

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by Nightwatchdog on Nov 12, 2009 at 5:33 am Permalink

Maybe he likes watching people being tortured....actually if there really was a god out there in the universe I would expect that to be the real reason - of that I have little doubt.

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