Mickiel
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- May 19, 2016
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Because he loved enough to give the gift of freewill. He didn't want robots following a scripted life. Unfortunately we don't always make great decisions, so sin is a possibility. With sin being harmful to our lives a serious loss of eternal life with Him became a consequence. God does not need Hell, we need the possibility of it.
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You know what , if by free will you mean that God would allow humans to be stupid enough to end up in some religious eternal madness punishing in some conscious pit of untold misery, just so that they could be " Free enough" to deserve their future, then I think it makes more sense to save them as robots, than to see them doomed by this so called free will.
What would be more harmful, a human sinning by their own will, or a human being consciously punished in some madness merciless pain pit for eternity? I don't care how harmful sin is, if the real punishment for sin is eternal hurting of humans, then the punishment is FAR more harmful than the crime; and in my view, that does NOT describe how this great God would punish. God has to be more wise than that.
Why would God need a punishment for a human that does not correct them and forgive them and change them? Now IF God were a religious human, then yes, I could see him hurting humans forever just for not believing in him.
I just don't think God is religious, nor do I view him as being a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Jehovahs Witness, or any of these religions on earth. I don't view this God as being male or female, black or white, I mean he can't be anything human. And I, for one, am glad of that; he will not punish like a human would. And he does not love like a human loves. God does not need to do things human; and eternal punishing is human desire, not Godly desire. I think God desires that we all make it, 1 Tim. 2:3-4 plainly reveals that. People just don't believe it, because its too good to be true.