(October 3, 2009 at 4:05 pm)solarwave Wrote: God does believe in the rehabilitation of sinners, the problem is they reject the method of rehabilitation through Jesus Christ.
Can you show me where it states that he believes in rehabilitation? I've only seen him condemning.
solarwave Wrote: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.
When you say "if we die unforgiven we have to go somewhere else", are you saying that when we die we are still conscious? That we can move about, see, feel, smell and touch?
So long as we do not accept god, we are sent to hell, irregardless of how good a life we've led when we were alive?
solarwave Wrote: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.
If we do not believe in the whole concept of the religion and the self-sacrifice, then all this doesn't apply in the first place. Furthermore, he gave us free will did he not? So we supposedly have the ability to go our own way, yet we are condemned still.
The dark side awaits YOU...AngryAtheism
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"Only the dead have seen the end of war..." - Plato
“Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it...” - Richard Dawkins