The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #97865   Message #1932907
Posted By: Ebbie
11-Jan-07 - 12:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: God Hates Straights...
Subject: RE: BS: God Hates Straights...
Tom, did you paste that site in here to demonstrate 'forever'?

"Remember when I'm up there I will helping Jesus who to send to hell to burn forever." Tom Hamilton

When I was a girl being reared in a devout Christian home I heard my father and a guest speak about the transgressions of a man they knew who was non-Christian.

One of them said, I just tell myself: Just you wait!

And they laughed comfortably.

If you, Tom - or my father and his friend - really, truly believe what you say you believe, it would be an outrage to feel joyful that someone else is going to burn in hell. That is not Christian in any sense that I have any understanding of.

As for hell, I do NOT believe in that kind of thing. Extinguishment I can understand but we have an inborn knowledge that torture (cruelty) is obscene. The Created is not better than its Creator, so if WE know cruelty is wrong, then we know that the Creator would not indulge in it, is not capable of it.

Now, don't go away with your feelings hurt, thinking that we are ridiculing you or your belief. If the other posters are coming from the same place as I, we are simply trying to help you to stop and think.