Well, God is like the ultimate Father. Our parents discipline us out of love [most of the time?]
- Toby Turner:
- I'm not jumping into debate but that viewpoint sounds really interesting. Expand?
Hell exists for the people who don't want God in their lives. Because God loves us, He gives us what we want. If we want Him, we get Heaven, if we reject Him then we get Hell. If God didn't love us, well we'd either cease to exist or end up in some place without God, but it wouldn't necessarily be Hell because I think unless there is a Heaven you can't have a Hell, either.
That doesn't look like it makes sense, but it does in my head.
I believe there is also an actual theological premise to the whole if God wasn't a loving God there wouldn't be a Hell, but it's been a while since I've researched it.
January 27th, 2012 at 01:26pm