How could a kind and loving God condemn His children to burn forever?

Zootal: How could a kind and loving God condemn His children to burn forever?
Here is a question for Christians. If God loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son, how can this God that loves us so much condemn any of his children to literally burn and suffer horribly forever? I do not understand how this loving God could do this to any of His children.

The scriptures say God is Love, how then can God condemn any of his children to suffer terrible pain and torture, forever and ever?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Eyes of Earth
You tell me..

Answer by Death to fairy tale man!
That was made up by some Christians to generate fear- everyone knows that fear motivates people.

Answer by cryptic_non_sequitur
apparently, god is pathologically strict …

Answer by Chris
God would never do that to His children.

To become His child, believe in Jesus Christ to save you, and you will never be in hell, which was prepared not for man, but for the devils. Jesus wants everybody in heaven.

Jesus died for our sins, all sins, and rose from the dead. So to be in heaven, believe in Jesus to save you.

Answer by Marlon Compton ii
everyone is punished…………….how simple did you want it son?

Answer by G C
A kind and loving God has done all He can to make sure you go to Heaven. Your choice to rebel and so as you want puts you in Hell. God does not.

Answer by LT
“His” children will not….. by you asking and makeing this statemen makes me think you are not one of his children.

Answer by Kevin Ofc ☮
My bible teacher once told me, gods love end for those non-believers on the day of the rapture.

Answer by Artemis
Exactly

That means that god never said that.

“The idea that a person has only one life to either become qualified to enter heaven or enter eternal damnation offers the soul no means of rehabilitation and only endless misery. This is not reasonable. The doctrine of reincarnation gives anyone ample scope to correct and re-educate himself in future births. An eternity in hell means that an infinite effect is produced by a finite cause, which is illogical.”

Answer by irony fan
its ok , he just has a weird sense of humour does old goddy woddy. hes actually quite non existant when you get ot know him.

Answer by Demetria
My Christian friends say it’s because sinners broke the law and didn’t trust in Jesus to atone for them so they go to hell for breaking God’s Law (10 Commandments).
So basically hell is jail in the supernatural world

Answer by JohnH
so, here it goes!
WHY you blame God for this!
we have a responsibility to fulfill, we have a conscience who guide us well in the right direction.

there fore look in the mirror and ask yourself, how much time did you spent today for God and God´s Will.

J

Answer by Fitz
Actually in Hebrew and Aramaic, the word Hell dissappears from the Bible.

God himself forbade the people to torture with fire, condemning it and calling it an abomination which never came into His mind. — Leviticus 18:21; 20,2-5; Jeremiah 19:5; 32:34, 35

The Bible also says “The wages of sin is death” not “eternal punishment”. “eternal punishment” is a mistranslation from Revelation. When read in the original language, the meaning changes significantly. Ever recall Jesus mention hell? In pre-translated texts the word he uses is Gehenna which is a fire pit outside of Jerusalem in the Valley of Hinnom … not some fiery underworld.

Those believers that follow Jesus’ path are rewarded with everlasting life (not heaven … heaven is just the sky), and non-believers cease to exist. This is referred to as the second death, the dead are brought back from Sheol during judgement, and those deemed goats (the wicked or non believers) are purified and cease to exist.

The “lake of fire” in Revelation is also misinterpreted. The word fire is a mistranslation of the Greek word “theion” which means sulphur or divine since the Greeks saw sulphur AS divine. The word was not meant to infer fire … rather it meant divinity. The word “tormented” was also a mistranslation … the correct translation is actually “tested” or “examined”. The words “eternal” or “forever and ever” are translations of “olam” which actually means “the world to come” which infers until the end of the world. So being cast into the lake of fire to be tormented forever and ever … is actually: Tested, and then purified in God’s divinity until the judgement is complete.

So you either get everlasting life, or everlasting death. Burning forever is just misinterpretation.

Answer by Rachel
God didn’t do that it was our fault. Adam and eve sinned and so that is the punishment we have brought on ourselves. Hope this helps 🙂

Answer by cajunaggie87
You condemn yourself.

Your question is similar to this:

“How could a police department that claims to protect and serve its citizens arrest people for crimes that, when convicted, put them on death row?”

All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. He has given us the free gift of salvation, and all you have to do is accept it.

And regardless of your opinion of how God works, or your misunderstanding, how does that make him non-existent?

Answer by Scully
Gods love to make humans and animals suffer.

Answer by .
these scriptures are written by people just like us many years ago, they did not have any thing for entertainment purpose like television, so they made all this stuff

ever heard a racist talking??

Answer by J Awesomeness
I’ll try to explain this so it makes sense!

When Adam and Eve sinned, the human race became separated from God, meaning we could no longer go to heaven and be with Him when we died. But then Jesus came to wipe away our sin so we could once again be with Him in heaven. But he knew that some people didn’t love him, so he gave us all the choice to be with him or not. If you choose not, then why would you want to go to heaven if you didn’t want to be with Jesus, so he gave another option, to be without him. The absence of God is horrifying, hence hell…

Answer by galet09
God has provided the answers. Those that believe will spend eternity with him. If you don’t believe, he also provided a place for you as well.

See, It’s quite simple. You can choose to believe, and you will end up in Heaven with Him, or you can keep your mind closed and deny him, in which case you will spend your eternal life without him, since you didn’t believe to begin with and why would you want to be with those that did?

Christians are divided into if non believers will be eternally punished by hell fire or it simply being a separation from God. And some say it does not mean eternal anything, but those that don’t believe will be destroyed. I do not adhere to the latter idea. As for the former, what eternal torment means, the jury is still out on that one.

Answer by Roger
What leads you to believe God chooses to send people to Hell after He chose to free us from the consequences of our sin? That would be neither consistent with His character nor logical.

Spending eternity in Hell is not the penalty for our sins, it’s the consequence of being unable to pay the penalty. The penalty for our sins is the life of a sinless person, the righteous for the unrighteous (1 Peter 3:18). Jesus agreed to pay the penalty for us, as long as we agreed to let Him. Because He was sinless, He was qualified to do so. As soon as He gave His life for us we were free. The penalty had been paid, and we were able to avoid the consequences of being unable to pay.

Therefore people don’t go to Hell to pay the penalty for their sins. They go to Hell because they can’t pay the penalty and refused to let Jesus pay it for them.  Even after spending eternity in Hell, they’ll still owe the same penalty as they did on their first day there. That’s why Hell is eternal punishment.

If you’re not sure what Jesus has done for you then listen to this:

And this:

Answer by *bRiTiSh*
Oh haven’t you heard, now only Christians according to Christians nowadays, are gods “children”. They used to say we are all “gods children” but apparently us non-Christians have been demoted.

Oh and no loving god would do that, especially just for not believing in some stupid fairytale! It’s just another thing that makes Christianity even more nonsensical.

Answer by PROBLEM
I don’t believe He does.

Answer by TopNotch
God wouldnt send u to hell He told me so in my ear in my brain like He talks to all of you like that u have to understand and never fear He will tell you what to do u have to understand yourself that youve got to do it no matter what it takes boo okay part dear son holla

Answer by Anatoliy
There was a time when aliens (=demon angels who rebelled against God) mated with human women producing about 300000 giants. God sent a flood to wipe the giants and 700000 evil people out. Only a few animals and 8 people (Noah, his wife, their three sons and three daughters-in-law) were saved in an ark-ship. Atlantis (where aliens made humans their puppets) was preserved underneath Mariana Trench. Noah had white hair (so, he was either albino or a blond). His kids were white, red, and black. So, this explains the races. Then, later, people gathered and built a tower of Babel to fight God. God burned the top third of the tower, 1/3 sank inside the earth. God confused the language into 70 different languages. 1/3 of builders killed each other because of misunderstanding, 1/3 ran away, 1/3 were cursed and became ape- and elephant-like. This explains the apemen skeletons, which atheists proclaim to be proof of evolution. Concerning dinosaurs, they live beneath the earth, and will come out for a while to put scientists to shame. Bible predicts the rise of a world leader. His description: white-skinned, red eyes, and gay. If anyone worships him, they go to hell. Also, Bible predicts that when one stretches their hand to receive a new small gray world passport, a small green tattoo will be given (mark of the beast). If anyone receives this tattoo, they go to hell. Also, if anyone goes into a ufo ship to be healed (or for any reason at all), they’re screwed. Why? Because ufos=demons=aliens=ascended masters=ghosts=channeled entities=dead relatives during seances=enlightened beings=fallen angels will make humans into zombies. So, the Bible basically says: “Join Jesus (God) and the good angels to fight aliens and dinosaurs.
God created women and men so that humans can reproduce. All the angels are male. Number of angles is set and they don’t need to reproduce because they’re immortal. People that go to heaven don’t reproduce there either because their souls are immortal,too. God is immortal, without beginning, and male. Humans (human bodies) don’t have a big life span. So they need to reproduce to sustain human presence on earth, so to speak. God created people (man and woman) in his own image. The first rebels against God were some rebel planets (physical objects) who didn’t follow their appointed course set by God, then 1/3 of angels (aliens), then animals (the snake in the garden of Eden), then the woman Eve, then the man Adam. God didn’t forgive these planets (they stopped moving), nor the aliens (God turned them into spiritual darkness) and condemned them to hell (they’ll burn there in a short while), nor the snake. Before rebelling, the snake could easily fly around. God cursed the snake to crawl. Then, in a few months, when the snake attacked Eve, God cursed it the second time, depriving it of speech. The people’s punishment was that they became spiritually blind, i.e., they can’t see the spiritual world: God, good angels, and aliens(demons). After we die, we’ll see the spiritual world; but, at the end days (soon) we’ll be able to see aliens. Aliens will come out in ufo ships and sell us some lie about God and them. They’ll probably say that the God of the Bible is evil, and that they are our creators.
Read “psalm 26” forty times a day, for 40 days straight (1600 times in total) to get rid of any negativity. you can find it on bible gateway com , just put psalm 26 in search engine. I gave You a link as well.

Answer by yet-knish!
Let the rationalization dance begin…

Answer by J
he doesn’t.

Answer by Joe P
God is not only love but God is also just and will not let the guilty go unpunished. They are not His children if they choose to remain dead in their sins against Him.

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

1 John 3:8-9 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. (9) No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.

Sin cannot exist in the presence of God.

People choose Hell by their own free will in rejecting God’s free gift of grace in Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:10-12 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; (11) no one understands; no one seeks for God. (12) All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 3:2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

John 3:16-18 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (17) For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. (18) Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Daniel 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Answer by Gunther
The concept of a burning hell is not a Bible teaching. The prophet Jeremiah gives us a glimpse of God’s thinking on the matter. Jeremiah 7:31 “And they have built the high places of To′pheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hin′nom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.”

The greek word ‘hades’ and the hebrew word ‘sheohl’ are translated ‘hell’ in some translations of the scriptures. But these words simply refer to the common grave of dead mankind. Not an eternity of torment. Was it not God himself who said that the penalty for sin was death, not eternal torment. (Romans 6:23 “For the wages sin pays is death…..”)

Matthew 25:46 does speak of those God pronounces as ‘wicked’ “…these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” (KJV) This is contrasting the righteous go to life, the wicked to the cutting of from life, or death. The Bible must harmonize with itself so if Romans 6:23 states the wages of sin is death, then the ‘everlasting punishment’ for the wicked in Matthew 25:46 is also death.

For a more thorough discussion of the subject you might like to look at the publication ‘What Does The Bible Really Teach?’ Chapter 6 is entitled ‘Where are the Dead?’

Answer by wayne g
We are not robots! God gave us a free will. Those who hate God or disobeys all His laws condemn themselves. We are to fallow His instructions as given to us in His word, the Bible. The people who make fun of God and claim that He is not real, They invite condemnation. ( Be ye not deceived, God is not mocked, For whatsoever a man sows, that he shale also reap.)

Answer by scibear
Okay, basically it works like this: God is perfect, therefore he cannot have any imperfection around him. Because the world and humans are imperfect (‘sinners’) the world and all that is in it is going to perish. This is because the creation requires God in order to exist. Because it is now imperfect, God is going to withdraw, and so with God’s withdrawal, the creation will die.

You may ask: Why can’t God make it perfect again? The answer is: because God wants humans to have free will. God wants free will because He also wants LOVE, and love can only exist where there is the free will to CHOOSE it. However, because free will also means that one can refuse to choose love and instead choose evil and thus make the world imperfect, which is exactly what has happened.

You could also ask: Why didn’t God just start over again and make a new creation? Well, He’s doing just that, BUT, because God does indeed love us very much, rather than just simply allowing us all to perish with the old creation, He has devised a way to make us perfect so that we can be with Him in the new creation. This period where he has delayed his departure is called Grace. It’s pretty much the same with a student loan: you have a “grace period” of 6 months before you have to start making payments.

This is the core of Christianity: Jesus was able to die to atone for the sins of the humanity so that divine justice could be satisfied, and thus anyone who accepts the sacrifice of Christ for his SALVATION (salvation, salvage: to save something that would otherwise be destroyed or thrown away) will be able to be with God in the new creation, because he is made perfect by Christ’s sacrifice and his own faith (it’s kinda complicated).

So here is how it works, then: God is going to leave the old creation, which will be die because he is no longer around to support it. God COULD force every human being to come with him when he goes, but because he is a God of Love, he’s not going to do that. Additionally, in the new creation there will be no sadness or anger or anything negative like that; if He allowed evil people in, they would indeed ruin the new creation too, and make it a sad, miserable place the way the world is now.. He’s going to allow each person to exercise their free will and decide for themselves, even if it means they do not choose God; even if it means that they will die with the old creation. It’s not loving to force someone to do what they really don’t want to do. The best definition of “hell” is eternal separation from God. When God leaves, the old creation will become hell, and all who decided not to leave with God and be saved will be in hell already, not “sent” there (you can’t be sent to a place where you already are).

Hell is not a place of punishment, and let’s straighten out the definition of “condemnation”: Something is condemned when it is set aside for destruction; there is no actual connotation of punishment for wrongdoing: a condemned building hasn’t committed any wrongdoing, it’s simply not safe to live in and will be destroyed because its continuted existence could hurt someone. God does not wish people “go” to hell to be punished for their sin. Rather it’s simply a consequence of not choosing God’s plan of escape. It’s like you were on 50th floor of one of the Twin Towers on 9/11: the building is going to collapse and there’s nothing you can do to save your life: you’re too high up to jump without dying, and you can’t get down past the lower floors because they’re all on fire. Then, a fireman shows up outside the window of your office in a helicopter, he breaks the window and throws you a rope: You have a choice, you can either take the rope or not; if you take the rope, you’ll be saved, if you don’t, you will die. The building is the old creation, the fireman is God and the rope is salvation. The fireman isn’t going to force you to take the rope and he can only wait so long before he has to move on. In the end, the final choice is yours.

As to the notion that hell is a place of eternal suffering: there are several schools of thought on that idea. My own is that hell isn’t equal to eternal torture, but to eternal DEATH, with no hope of resurrection to a new, perfect life with God. Like you, i believe that a loving God wouldn’t allow such an abomination to exist anywhere within his knowledge, and so he simply allows all those who choose not to follow them to die with the old creation. Once that happens, they will no longer exist at all.

I hope this helps somewhat in your understanding. Sometimes being a christian can be a challenge.

Answer by Hester
He did only give his son for his people. Not all people are his children. He gave to some, What he ows to none. like he gave some life in heaven but he didn’t ow any that.

Answer by TheStupidGenius
The point is that there is no such god. I gave up with Christianity when my mother died when I was seven, cancer took her. And today I’m 25 and still struggling to live without her!

Answer by (TLS) Matthew 24:27
This is an issue that bothers many people who have an incomplete understanding of three things: the nature of God, the nature of man, and the nature of sin. As fallen, sinful human beings, the nature of God is a difficult concept for us to grasp. We tend to see God as a kind, merciful Being whose love for us overrides and overshadows all His other attributes. Of course God is loving, kind, and merciful, but He is first and foremost a holy and righteous God. So holy is He that He cannot tolerate sin. He is a God whose anger burns against the wicked and disobedient (Isaiah 5:25; Hosea 8:5; Zechariah 10:3). He is not only a loving God—He is love itself! But the Bible also tells us that He hates all manner of sin (Proverbs 6:16-19). And while He is merciful, there are limits to His mercy. “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon” (Isaiah 55:6-7).

Humanity is corrupted by sin, and that sin is always directly against God. When David sinned by committing adultery with Bathsheba and having Uriah murdered, he responded with an interesting prayer: “Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight…” (Psalm 51:4). Since David had sinned against Bathsheba and Uriah, how could he claim to have only sinned against God? David understood that all sin is ultimately against God. God is an eternal and infinite Being (Psalm 90:2). As a result, all sin requires an eternal punishment. God’s holy, perfect, and infinite character has been offended by our sin. Although to our finite minds our sin is limited in time, to God—who is outside of time—the sin He hates goes on and on. Our sin is eternally before Him and must be eternally punished in order to satisfy His holy justice.

https://www.gotquestions.org/eternal-hell-fair.html