Comments for God is Love. Hell is Not.

Comment on Retributive Punishment? by Don Rogers

Don Rogers — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:23:03 +0000

“It is NOT His fault that man caused his own soul to be put in jeopardy by disobeying God in the garden, nor is it His fault when we sin, reject Him, and those consequences of sin befall us.”

A literalist, no doubt. If in your mind God makes no mistakes, what exactly do you call it. According to your theology, God creates perfect creations (Adam & Eve) and in his omnipotence, he knows when given the choice to obey or not, the humans choose to disobey. Then God proceeds to punish them by kicking them out of paradise (no mention of hell here, by the way). To top it all off, all the rest of humankind is “condemned” because of the mistake that the first pair made. What kind of justice and compassion is that. A revisit to the source of your theology is in order.

Comment on An Eternal Hell Isn’t LOVE! by barney

barney — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:58:08 +0000

Shalom,

If the greek word aionas/os, etc. is ATTACHED to the subject/object of GOD/Jesus/Heaven/etc., and is in the PLURAL form… then how long are the AGES and how many of the AGES are there - FINITE or INFINITE?

barney

Comment on Retributive Punishment? by lee

lee — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:43:37 +0000

Again, God is PERFECT and makes no mistakes. His creation is PERFECT and by His grace we were given CHOICES. It is NOT His fault that man caused his own soul to be put in jeopardy by disobeying God in the garden, nor is it His fault when we sin, reject Him, and those consequences of sin befall us.

Comment on Even Billy Graham by george fernandez

george fernandez — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:07:37 +0000

Leave Billy alone! God has used him to do a great work , and his job is done. I feel He has been quoted out of context. I think he is trying to say that he is not God to judge man. Who knows mans heart but God? Walter Martin believed that other members of denominations who were truley ignorant , but believed in Jesus Christ could go to heaven why cant we? Billy has Hope and love in his heart for man. Billy knows Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life. come on people! Lets not forget that Billy has been to far off places and seen mans condition in ways we have not. what about people who never heard the gospel who truley dont understand it? are thay going to hell? Some of the people attacking Billy sound like Jerks and have not the love of our LORD JESUS CHRIST in them at all……I will pray for them. Remember love is gentle love is kind it has hope in all things. You go BILLY!

Comment on Retributive Punishment? by Don R

Don R — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:25:16 +0000

Here we see the typical response by the Christian who believes in eternal punishment for those who make the wrong choice. Perhaps a correct translation of the Greek word, aion would be in order from Matt. 25:15. The “separation of the sheep from the goats” can be interpreted several ways. It is a flawed plan if you create beings with built-in flaws (original sin) and expect them to make the “right”choice. I am afraid that theology is full of flaws. Check out the real origin of the hell in which you base your whole theology. http://donrogers.org/?s=hell%27s+origin

Comment on C.S. Lewis Says… by max

max — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:40:21 +0000

Your whole logo for your church sounds a bit bitter…pun is intended. There is a hell and there is a heaven. God is balanced and whole and complete and in order for goodness to exist, there’s need to be the opposite. Plus, there would be no other reason for Jesus to die on the cross, other than to save us from hell! You are deceiving many and will be held accountable for knowing what you know, and turning away from it. God is love but He is also just…His ways and words are True for the purpose of displaying His justness. We cannot compare it to ways of the world, including what we have perceived as love in this world. A father disciplines his child when they are in harms way because he loves them. He does not tell them ‘I love you,’ and just allow for his child to be harmed in a circumstance of danger and expect his child to be safe. God rebukes those He loves and disciplines His children. He does not just say, ‘I love you,’ and walk off. Too many are trying to justify God in their own ways, but He is not like us, nor thinks like us and you cannot justify Him either because of that. The real thing to focus on is repentance, allowing Him to take over your life, having an intimate relationship with Him, and stop trying to say there isn’t something, when there is; when it’s thoroughly stated throughout His word. Go back to the beginning and read where it began. Learn to love Him first instead of trying to love the world first. Because if you don’t love Him and understand Him; you don’t have anything and you cannot Truly love others the way God does.

Comment on Retributive Punishment? by tigersopal

tigersopal — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:38:46 +0000

Not all that surprisingly, that isn’t what I am saying. What I am saying is that God’s love is not FORCED on us. He doesn’t make us as robots to follow Jesus and become living sacrifices to Him. God, in His love, created us to be free, to choose how to live our lives. This doesn’t mean that our lives are consequence free!
This isn’t the same thing as our free will having the last word, it is God’s graciousness in ALLOWING us to have free will.
God did not create a flawed plan- He is perfect; He knew what would happen, but still wanted to give us that chance to get to know Him.
When we see God face to face we will recognise Him for who He is- none of us can judge who will be saved and who won’t- He will do that, in His justice.

Hope that makes sense. I am not trying to be controversial, or say that God is unloving; it is just that Jesus says himself that we will be separated as sheep separated from the goats (Matt 25)- mentioning in 25.15 that the righteous go on to eternal life, and others to eternal punishment. What Jesus says has to be right!

God bless,

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Comment on Retributive Punishment? by Ernie

Ernie — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:42:23 +0000

So, you are thus saying that:
1-Justice is more powerful than love?
2-God’s love does not have a last word, but our free will ahs the last word?
3-We’re free to reject God’s love but God’s love can’t reject our rejection?
4-God created a FLAWED PLAN wherein 80% of His creation were destined for the trash bin- and this is love? And this was a smart move on God’s part? He saw this in advance but embraced it?
5-All decisions are final this side of deatrh and nothing prevails or matters on the other side of death. Grace ends at the grave?
That’s simply not the God I know.

Comment on Retributive Punishment? by tigersopal

tigersopal — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:23:49 +0000

God is an all-loving, generous, omnipotent, omniscient being. He is also a JUST one. He showed His love to us when His son died on the cross, bearing our sins. But for us to be saved by Him, we need to come to Him and repent- and accept His grace. His grace can forgive everything that we have ever done; but He isn’t going to let that happen to those who refuse to accept it.
Hell isn’t a punishment because Jesus only died for some. It is a result of our rebellion against God; if we cannot live in awe of Him and be living sacrifices for Him, then God’s justice will let rule. Revelation says it all!

God bless!

Comment on Salvation For All! by Annette

Annette — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:02:29 +0000

I believe this. Once you upon your heart to real love, the myth of eternal damnation reads like a bad science fiction novel.