source: Ciudadredonda.org
There is a question about the goodness of God as old as religion itself: How can a God who is all good to send someone to hell eternity? How can God be all mercy and love, if there is eternal punishment?
Actually, this is a false question . God does not send anyone to hell and God does not sentence eternal punishment. God gives us life, and the choice of whether or not to accept up to us
Jesus tells us that God does not judge anyone. Are we whom we judge ourselves. God does not create hell or send anyone to him. But this does not mean that hell exists and is not a possibility for us. Here is basically how Jesus explains this:
God sends his life into the world and we can choose that life or reject it. We are judging ourselves by making that choice. If we choose life, we are choosing finally the sky. If we deny life, just living out of life and that ultimately it is hell. But we who make that choice, God sends us anywhere. Also, hell is not a positive punishment created by God to make us suffer. Hell is the absence of something, namely, the absence or non-living into the life that we offer.
affirm this is not to say that hell is not real or that it is a real possibility for everyone. Hell is real, but is not a punishment created by God to impose justice or revenge, or to show the callous and unrepentant that they were wrong, they made a mistake. Hell is the absence of life, love, forgiveness, community, but God does not send anyone there. we end up there, out of love and community, but we who choose, whether culpably reject those values \u200b\u200bwhen we offer Throughout our life. Hell, once said John Shea, is never a surprise to wait for a happy person is the full flowering of a life that rejects the love, forgiveness, and community.
French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre once said, with the famous phrase, that hell is "other." What is true is just the opposite. Hell is what we experience when we choose ourselves ahead of the community of life with others. is assumed that human life is life together, shared existence, participation within a community of life that includes the Trinity itself.
God is love, says the Scripture, and those who remain in love abide in God, and God abides in them. In this context, love should not be understood primarily as romantic love. The text says that "those who fall in love" are those who dwell in God (although that can happen too.) Fundamentally, we must formulate the text differently, to come and say, "God is shared existence, and those who share life with others and live within the life of God." But the opposite is also true: When we share our lives, just outside life. That, essentially, is hell.
What is-what is-hell? Images chosen by the Bible to "describe" the hell are arbitrary and vary widely. The popular mind tends to think of hell as fire, eternal fire, but that's just an image, not necessarily the dominant one in the Scripture. Among other things, the Scripture speaks of hell as a "feel the wrath of God," a "being outside" the wedding and the dance, as a "mourn and gnashing of teeth" as a being destined for Gehenna (a famous garbage dump outside Jerusalem), as being eaten by worms, like fire, like a miss and miss the banquet, as a living outside the Kingdom, as living within a heart embittered and perverted, and as a be missing out on life. the end, all these images converge at the same point: Hell is the pain and bitterness, the fire that we experienced when we culpably outside the community of life. And it is always self-inflicted. Never is imposed by God. God does not deliver death or sent anyone to hell.
When Jesus speaks of God never claims that God give both: life and death, but only God gives life . Death comes from somewhere else, as they are lying, rationalizing, bitterness, hardness of heart and hell. To say that God did not create hell or has not sent anyone there does not detract the existence of evil and sin or the danger of eternal punishment, only pinpoints their origins and make it clear who is the judge and who is the sentencing. God does things either. not create hell or send anyone to him. We are who do both.
As Jesus tells us in the Gospel of St. John. "God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned; he that believeth not is condemned already for not believing in the only Son of God. The trial is this: that light is come into the world, people preferred darkness to light ... I do not judge anyone. "
God does not need.
PEACE AND WELL ...
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