*how could God send people he loves to hell*
what makes you think God loves everyone unconditionally and won't punish them?
Is it loving to just let your kids run around with no rules, not caring if they hurt themselves?
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I don't have kids (ewww, rug-rats), but even if I did, your comparison would still fail miserably. When I would punish my hypothetical child for some act of wrongdoing, I would first make sure s/he understood why s/he is being punished (mind you, I don't use double-standards or contradictory rules like your god does), but more to the point, such punishment would DEFINITELY NOT continue on and on for the rest of my child's life. Administering an infinite amount of punishment for a finite amount of wrongdoing is not the act of a being who is even remotely honorable or moral, even if said being is powerful enough to will entire universes into being.
"Is it loving to just let your kids run around with no rules, not caring if they hurt themselves?"
No, but parents don't usually torture their kids.
"Is it loving to just let your kids run around with no rules, not caring if they hurt themselves?"
But that is exactly what he does! It's just that he tells us what the rules are after we have already broken them and have no way of rectifying our behavior (being already dead), and punishes us with no opportunity allowed for changing. That is not good parenting...that is torture.
Because, if you punish them for something that it's not objectively harmful to them and to others with no opportunity for correction, is not unconditional love any longer. And regarding unconditional love, I think that Jesus demanded it.
"Is it loving to just let your kids run around with no rules, not caring if they hurt themselves?"
Wait, isn't that the same as god not interfering and expecting everyone to figure it out on their own?
"Is it loving to just let your kids run around with no rules, not caring if they hurt themselves?"
No, but then again, neither is disowning your kid and never speaking him again for the rest of his life because of something as HARMLESS as being gay, which is basically the parental equivalent of God's punishment. Except that God is the one who decided to make his child gay in the first place, and his punishment for it lasts for all eternity and evolves burning in Hellfire. Yeah, THAT'S real loving.
The difference between God and a loving parent here is that a parent might punish a kid with a time out or no dessert for a week, whereas God punishes someone by sending him to a place to be tortured for all eternity. See the difference? I wish more Christians would see the error in this argument, since I've seen this argument for the just existence of Hell used a lot.
Is it loving to just let your kids run around with no rules, not caring if they hurt themselves?
Is it loving to send your kids to burn in hell fire for all of eternity because they stuck their hand in the cookie jar?
Is it loving to just let your kids run around with no rules, not caring if they hurt themselves?
But that's exactly what God supposedly does. He lets His "kids" run around with no rules, not caring if they hurt themselves. But He keeps notes on everything they did wrong. Then when they're 80, He whips out the list, says "look at what a bad person you were" and burns them in a lake of fire for all eternity.
what makes you think God loves everyone unconditionally and won't punish them?
Is it loving to just let your kids run around with no rules, not caring if they hurt themselves?
Is it loving to send your kids to burn in hell fire for all of eternity because they stuck their hand in the cookie jar?
The whole point of punishing your children is so they'll learn to do things right and be better people. Throwing someone in hell for all eternity doesn't accomplish anything of the sort.
And here I thought that a big part of Christianity was that God unconditionally loved everyone...
Personally, I wrap my kids tight in razor wire, place fire ants in thier private parts then skin them alive and feed them to the wild dogs while I'm reading the bible for the forgiveness a true christian will surely recieve.
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