The concept of Hell discourages belief
March 20, 2013 at 9:57 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2013 at 10:03 am by The Reality Salesman01.)
I am a father. My son means everything to me. There are times that his actions require punishment, but ultimately, the lesson he learns from the punishment is what is important. I want him to grow into a better person, a better man. My love for him is unconditional. Everything I do, I do to support him and his success.
According to Christianity, God is the supposed Heavenly Father. His love, compassion and dedication for US is something that we could never truely comprehend, but the very reason I feel the way I do about my son, is because I was created in his image. According to Christianity, it is God to which all morality, and empathy can be attributed.
If my son disobeys me, he is punished. But, ultimately if he doesn't get a chance to display new learned behavior, I will never know whether I have suceeded as a parent in teaching my son what is important. There is no amount of chances before I will give up. There is no limit to my love for him. If he were ever in need of something and it was within my ability to provide it, I would. I would risk my own safety and lay my own life out for his.
If ultimately, the life we choose differs from that which The Bible outlines as the standard, and obviously there are millions of different interpretations of what that standard is, then God (Heavenly Father ) invokes his punishment to his children...
This punishment is described as unimaginable torture. It says "You will pray for death but death will not find you", this is an eternal and definite punishment from which there will not be a chance for salvation or rescue. God will cast you away land turn his back to you because to HIM you have already done so to him.
My questions are many with comprehending these concepts.
#1 If...
a.)God is all loving and his compassion for his children surpasses that of my own comprehension for compassion.
b.) I have compassion for my son that knows no bounds. It would be impossible for me to allow my son a fate of eternal suffering for any reason.
c.) God's compassion has limits to what he will accept before he turns his back to you and allows you; in fact sentences you to a fate of eternal suffering.
If A is true, C cannot nor B can be true.
B is true and C is contingent on accepting A, therefore A must be false.
#2
a.) God is all powerful, and all loving. There is nothing he cannot do or would not do for us.
b.) If you do not accept Jesus Christ into your heart as your lord and savior under your own free will, which God has granted you the opportunity to do, you will be eternally sentenced to pain and suffering beyond any earthly imaginable experience.
c.) God will not save you from this outcome, as you have decided under previous circumstances that your opinion of him and level of devotion was different than the one God wanted you to have.
If A is True, C cannot be true. Both C and B are contingent on accepting A, therefore all are false.
If a punishment is designed to teach a lesson, Hell is not such a thing. If I don't want my son to steal, killing him will not bring out better behavior. These concepts are self-contradicting and traits of a narcissistic and petty person that would not logically applied to a devine superior being of unimaginable power. These aren't even acceptable traits of a person in a position of power on earth! It's astounding that this can be so widely and blindly accepted as truth.
Lastly, and I would be suprised if anyone actually made it this far in my rant...
1) If God designed my ability to reason.
2) Then is is that ability to reason that has led me to a conclusion that God is not real.
3) My inconclusive results for God driven by my God-given ability to reason, have led me to an ideology that God issues sentences in Hell for.
Therefore conclusively: God sentences people to hell for doing exactly what he designed them to do.
This makes no more sense than Ford destroying their mini-van products because at the test-drive,they could not fly or produce crisp $100 bills. If something you design produces different results than you expected, it is becuase your design was flawed, therefore the only person you can blame is you!
According to Christianity, God is the supposed Heavenly Father. His love, compassion and dedication for US is something that we could never truely comprehend, but the very reason I feel the way I do about my son, is because I was created in his image. According to Christianity, it is God to which all morality, and empathy can be attributed.
If my son disobeys me, he is punished. But, ultimately if he doesn't get a chance to display new learned behavior, I will never know whether I have suceeded as a parent in teaching my son what is important. There is no amount of chances before I will give up. There is no limit to my love for him. If he were ever in need of something and it was within my ability to provide it, I would. I would risk my own safety and lay my own life out for his.
If ultimately, the life we choose differs from that which The Bible outlines as the standard, and obviously there are millions of different interpretations of what that standard is, then God (Heavenly Father ) invokes his punishment to his children...
This punishment is described as unimaginable torture. It says "You will pray for death but death will not find you", this is an eternal and definite punishment from which there will not be a chance for salvation or rescue. God will cast you away land turn his back to you because to HIM you have already done so to him.
My questions are many with comprehending these concepts.
#1 If...
a.)God is all loving and his compassion for his children surpasses that of my own comprehension for compassion.
b.) I have compassion for my son that knows no bounds. It would be impossible for me to allow my son a fate of eternal suffering for any reason.
c.) God's compassion has limits to what he will accept before he turns his back to you and allows you; in fact sentences you to a fate of eternal suffering.
If A is true, C cannot nor B can be true.
B is true and C is contingent on accepting A, therefore A must be false.
#2
a.) God is all powerful, and all loving. There is nothing he cannot do or would not do for us.
b.) If you do not accept Jesus Christ into your heart as your lord and savior under your own free will, which God has granted you the opportunity to do, you will be eternally sentenced to pain and suffering beyond any earthly imaginable experience.
c.) God will not save you from this outcome, as you have decided under previous circumstances that your opinion of him and level of devotion was different than the one God wanted you to have.
If A is True, C cannot be true. Both C and B are contingent on accepting A, therefore all are false.
If a punishment is designed to teach a lesson, Hell is not such a thing. If I don't want my son to steal, killing him will not bring out better behavior. These concepts are self-contradicting and traits of a narcissistic and petty person that would not logically applied to a devine superior being of unimaginable power. These aren't even acceptable traits of a person in a position of power on earth! It's astounding that this can be so widely and blindly accepted as truth.
Lastly, and I would be suprised if anyone actually made it this far in my rant...
1) If God designed my ability to reason.
2) Then is is that ability to reason that has led me to a conclusion that God is not real.
3) My inconclusive results for God driven by my God-given ability to reason, have led me to an ideology that God issues sentences in Hell for.
Therefore conclusively: God sentences people to hell for doing exactly what he designed them to do.
This makes no more sense than Ford destroying their mini-van products because at the test-drive,they could not fly or produce crisp $100 bills. If something you design produces different results than you expected, it is becuase your design was flawed, therefore the only person you can blame is you!
