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Jun 28, 2006 22:09

between all i wish for and all i need

an extension on last night's post:

everyone who commented [i posted on lj and myspace..] said that basically god hates the sin, not the sinner, hell is not punishment and i shouldn't think of it that way, and that god forgives those that accept him and ask for his forgiveness, but not those who deny him or don't ask.
what about those who are confused?
such as me?
i have never denied god, but i struggle with faith in a big way.

what about hell?
perhaps it's just a place without god.
which, if that is the case, can happen on earth.
and, obviously, after life as well.
maybe it has absolutely nothing to do with god at all but with the person.
like, i don't think god sends people to hell. maybe you get there on your own accord by not asking for god's forgiveness and letting him into your life.
i hope it's not forever though.
like, after death, can people realize that they are in this place-- hell-- because of their own decisions and that they need god?
and then, can god forgive them?
to me, it doesn't make sense for someone to be stuck in a place without god for eternity.
because life on earth is so short. and, obviously, there's life after death.
when you die is it too late to believe?

lately, i have seen too many deaths and seemingly unfair things happen to good people.
and for a while, i just thought why would god do that to someone?
why would he punish certain people and not others?
i think now that god created the world and is an influence on it, but we also have free will.
we make our own decisions and god is there to help us with them.
but he is not the one that causes car accidents. he is not the reason for hurricanes and earthquakes that destroy thousands of lives.
these things happen because they happen, not because god wills it.
i don't think anyone can explain things like that; it's just part of nature.
we have to learn from it.
and maybe there's a reason for everything, but there's certainly no way to understand each one of those reasons.

anyway,
i'm pretty ignorant, as far as these things go.
i'm just thinking, and if i didn't get it down somewhere i might explode.
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