It's not a fear thing at all. If Christians believe and have faith in God as creator of all and Jesus and his redeeming work on the cross, then we owe Him everything. If he demands our faith and our belief to gain eternal salvation, that's what we must do. It then becomes His right to punish and judge those that reject Him.
Complete disbelief of God, Jesus, heaven and hell is one thing. That's not what is being questioned here.
Here it's people professing to believe in God and have a personal relationship with Jesus but rejecting at least parts of the scripture which is God's Holy word. It doesn't add up. If you believe in God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit then it is necessary to believe also in God's Holy word also. To then deny that hell exists and is real and unrepentant sinners and unbelievers are sent there for eternity goes against what you are professing to believe in in the first place.
There is only ONE true God, Lord and Savior, King of Kings and Creator of all. Heaven is real and hell is just as real. EVERYONE'S soul lives forever. The only thing God left in man's hands is the personal choice to decide what he believes and where he spends eternity.
John, I also start to get accustomed with some posts.... dog bites his own tail....
Any proofs except some "man written" scriptures?......
Tai shared a personal experience that is much more believable than refering to"scriptures".....
whatever being questioned here, it is like explaining the effect of alcohol to a person who never got drunk.He will know and understand when he drinks too much, but explaining the feeling is impossible.....
so why do You try to explain or speak for something You do not have a personal experience that could be taken as some kind of proof or respected as a personal experience(and if You have, please would You share that with us?)....it is only iun the words of other people, gone a long time ago, which You decide that this is the true word.
I forgot the "savages" who needed to be told of the "word of god"
http://knifedogs.com/showthread.php?39525-Bringing-them-something-they-already-have remember this?
....they will burn in hell because they do not know?...or they just cant get to heaven ?....where they being stored until the decision is made?.....or is there a sub-hell- purgatory.?....
here is an example how the "word of God" is made......
the purgatory was abolished by the German Pope named Reinhard Cardinal Marx Bishop of Munich-Freising a few years ago...he corrected Jesus(!) and abolishes Purgatory....(in my personal opinion he actually did a good thing.)
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2013/11/c-8-cardinal-advisor-1-cardinal-marx.html
He also confirmed some of the fear the church is spreading since ever, there You can have a deputy or so called representative of God and take a look how "Gods word" is being retired....
this is a fact and maybe in 500 years his words are added to the "scriptures"?....always try to sell us for stupid...!
always bending it to the own needs and politics and how it is useful.......makes me sick the whole thing!....it is only lies....it is obviously just bad.
You always can say I didnt get the point, that is not questioned here or whatever, fact is that it is and ever will be a blackmail.
No one cannot imagine the love and forgiveness of Jesus.
He never will close the doors of heaven for anybody.
That is, what Tai said.
He listens to You but You do not listen to him, or You refuse to give him the respect and space in his believe.
People will close the door, people do not forgive and are fast at hand to judge and punish, ...always knowing what God plans, does, wants.....executing the will of God, bringing the word of God,.....all that preaching on a soap box of violence....church and Christianity is organized crime since ever.....it is not about God, it is about wealth, politics and power.
Do You have some knowledge whats happening after death?...or at least any idea, fantasy or fear... ever made some near death experience?....anything that is half-believable more than some "referings"?
Maybe You are so free to try again, if You have some different argumentation than bible quoting and refering.