(October 2, 2009 at 7:37 am)Retorth Wrote: Hell is a place sinners are sent to and can never return from correct? Hell is designed for eternal banishment and suffering, correct?
If your god created this place called hell, did he not believe in the rehabilitation of murderers, convicts and other types of sinners? Or were these people, to him, just a waste of time and only deserved to be destroyed?
In advance, I just want to say that I appreciate your insights, thanks.
Hell is ether eternal or will be destoryed at some point. I will assume the first since i don't know much about the second.
God does believe in the rehabilitation of sinners, the problem is they reject the method of rehabilitation through Jesus Christ.
Here is my view on hell as I best understand it. We sin and so can't go to heaven because heaven is perfect. So if we die unforgiven we have to go somewhere else. This place is called hell and can be seen as punishment, destruction, or a void. God is just so sins can't be simply forgiven, a price must be paid and the price is ether our lives or Jesus'. Those who don't accept forgiveness and rejected God are finally left alone without God. Personally I think hell is the complete separation from God and the consequences of that with God being the source of all goodness.
What would you have God do? Wipe away their sins at all costs and give them a new start. Well He has done through Jesus. If someone doesn't accept forgiveness how can they be forgiven.
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