A Fundamentalist View of Hell

[TurningIntoDavid]

(04-17-2012 07:07 AM)exOBCstudent Wrote:  My wife and I discussed these new ideas last night and came to some insteresting points.

- Christ came to the world not to CONDEMN the world but that the world through Him might be saved. Thus His atonement was paid ONCE for all at Calvary.

- What can SEPERATE us from God's love? NOTHING. God IS love. All love comes from God. If hell seperates us from God eternally then His love isn't enough or He is NOT omnipresent or all powerful either.

- Perfect love casteth out fear. LOVE covers ALL sins. Would perfect, UNCONDITIONAL love be "I'll only love you if you in return love me, otherwise I'll damn you to eternal torments"?

- If God knew from the beginning of creation that some men wouldn't choose Him (and hell is real) then He PURPOSELY designed hell for their eternal suffering. Is that the depths of God's love for mankind? Once again the "I'll only love you if you love me back" mentality.

- If Hell is real, then mothers with children and even animals would show more love than Christ appears to. At least many mothers will naturally love their children no matter how much of a mess they make of themselves or how much they "act up". Even a dog will return sometimes and lick the hand of the one who beat him senseless.

If the doctrine of eternal punishment is true then the God we think we know isn't as loving as many think. In fact He would seem terrible and downright tyrannical....just like IFB MOGs I know. The more I study in detail eternal punishment the more of the fingerprints of men I see.

I'm glad I could help. You've got a long conversation ahead of you, because there are a lot of verses that seem to teach that some people will be in hell forever. This link may help you wrestle with some of them. EDIT: Also here.

A few more verses than the one you mentioned earlier are here and here.