Ok really poor analogy, but did you wake up your pet? You do take care of your pet. You provide for your pet. You protect your pet. Your pet has the free will to misbehave but you are less likely to keep a pet that does. Even if you love your pet you don’t usually want to be bitten, or have your stuff destroyed. Mess too often on the floor and most people give up on their pets, turning them in for others to deal with. Of course there are people that purposely chose pets that would turn off the typical owner or train them to be what most would consider unacceptable behavior. Now realize we are not pets in any way but the analogy fits. Your pet has free will to reject the owners favor or not. Those pets that chose to love us back may still have bad things happen. IE: illness, accident, loneliness when the family is away but they still give us love and we as owners reward their loyalty.
God gives us insurmountable grace as we face our days but we’ve still have choice to follow His guidance to make our lives easier and not end up in a pound or we can reject Him and face the consequences of our choice. I pray that you realize God is not just a set of rules but a real entity. He actually lives in our lives even if we can’t see Him. He wants us to accept the gifts He offers us and realize if we do we can remain in His presence forever. Please try to think of Gods from a different perspective. He is not threatening you with Hell but trying to save you from it.
This makes no sense to me. God created everything including hell, no? He created the rules that determine if you go to Hell. He's the one who ultimately decides if you go to Hell. This is the definition of threatening you with Hell if you don't follow the rules. Now you could argue that someone may deserve that punishment for their actions on Earth, but that's an entirely different point than God somehow trying to "save" you from something he created and something that he imposes on you.
God created Hell as punishment for Satan and his fallen angels. Satan wanted to be like God. He wanted humans to worship him. He left heaven, taking a few other fallen angels (now called demons) with him on a mission to convince humans to follow him as apposed to God. Doesn’t it make sense that both sides gather their supporters in their respective realms?
The rules you may be referring to may be the10 commandments. Initially God gave us the 10: commandments to ease our way of getting along with each other and make us understand that on our own we can’t win our way to God. They are signposts leading us to God and a better life here on earth if you will. They are both civil and moral ruies. They are in the first testament. They are the rules we couldn’t keep because we had free will. Freedom of choice is paramount to God. We are to willingly commit to Him.
If you believe breaking the rules casts you into hell you’d be sadly mistaken. Throughout the 1rst testament man was known break the covenant with God. Siding with Satan as you would. Instead, as of the second testament we live under grace. God gave up his precious sons life so that we could be saved. Christ’s death demonstrates how much God loves us. He gave this sacrifice because He didn’t want us to be lost to Satan. Because of this sacrificial grace God saves us. The only laws or rules are that you “love God with all your heart, soul and mind and that you love your neighbor as yourself”.
By replacing the law by grace. The only way to God is love.
It’s all very simple yet Satan twists the truth making it hard for a human to find his way to the truth. We instinctively know we can’t follow these rules. Satan wants us to believe we can be our own God. Doing what ever makes us happy. Many Christians try to follow these laws and harshly criticize those that aren’t able to keep these rules, but the truth is we should try to follow the rules to honor God. To show our love for Him. We fail miserably but in the end it is the love of God that saves us from the Hell He created for Satan and his minions.
Ok really poor analogy, but did you wake up your pet? You do take care of your pet. You provide for your pet. You protect your pet. Your pet has the free will to misbehave but you are less likely to keep a pet that does. Even if you love your pet you don’t usually want to be bitten, or have your stuff destroyed. Mess too often on the floor and most people give up on their pets, turning them in for others to deal with. Of course there are people that purposely chose pets that would turn off the typical owner or train them to be what most would consider unacceptable behavior. Now realize we are not pets in any way but the analogy fits. Your pet has free will to reject the owners favor or not. Those pets that chose to love us back may still have bad things happen. IE: illness, accident, loneliness when the family is away but they still give us love and we as owners reward their loyalty. God gives us insurmountable grace as we face our days but we’ve still have choice to follow His guidance to make our lives easier and not end up in a pound or we can reject Him and face the consequences of our choice. I pray that you realize God is not just a set of rules but a real entity. He actually lives in our lives even if we can’t see Him. He wants us to accept the gifts He offers us and realize if we do we can remain in His presence forever. Please try to think of Gods from a different perspective. He is not threatening you with Hell but trying to save you from it.
This makes no sense to me. God created everything including hell, no? He created the rules that determine if you go to Hell. He's the one who ultimately decides if you go to Hell. This is the definition of threatening you with Hell if you don't follow the rules. Now you could argue that someone may deserve that punishment for their actions on Earth, but that's an entirely different point than God somehow trying to "save" you from something he created and something that he imposes on you.
God created Hell as punishment for Satan and his fallen angels. Satan wanted to be like God. He wanted humans to worship him. He left heaven, taking a few other fallen angels (now called demons) with him on a mission to convince humans to follow him as apposed to God. Doesn’t it make sense that both sides gather their supporters in their respective realms? The rules you may be referring to may be the10 commandments. Initially God gave us the 10: commandments to ease our way of getting along with each other and make us understand that on our own we can’t win our way to God. They are signposts leading us to God and a better life here on earth if you will. They are both civil and moral ruies. They are in the first testament. They are the rules we couldn’t keep because we had free will. Freedom of choice is paramount to God. We are to willingly commit to Him. If you believe breaking the rules casts you into hell you’d be sadly mistaken. Throughout the 1rst testament man was known break the covenant with God. Siding with Satan as you would. Instead, as of the second testament we live under grace. God gave up his precious sons life so that we could be saved. Christ’s death demonstrates how much God loves us. He gave this sacrifice because He didn’t want us to be lost to Satan. Because of this sacrificial grace God saves us. The only laws or rules are that you “love God with all your heart, soul and mind and that you love your neighbor as yourself”. By replacing the law by grace. The only way to God is love.
It’s all very simple yet Satan twists the truth making it hard for a human to find his way to the truth. We instinctively know we can’t follow these rules. Satan wants us to believe we can be our own God. Doing what ever makes us happy. Many Christians try to follow these laws and harshly criticize those that aren’t able to keep these rules, but the truth is we should try to follow the rules to honor God. To show our love for Him. We fail miserably but in the end it is the love of God that saves us from the Hell He created for Satan and his minions.
even god had to overcome hell, where did you think Jesus went for three days. It is also up to us to overcome hell. my two cents anyway