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Originally posted by ThePunisher
So to agree with your point as well, God would not 'need' opposites, but they would exist as well?.
Originally posted by jfdarby
The Gates of Hell will not be open till the time of the Great White Throng Judgement..
Originally posted by queenannie38
Where did you hear that?
Originally posted by dbrandt
God tells us that He forgets our sins when we accept Christ.
God forgets 'sins', not 'sinners.'
What if when eternity begins and those who are in the Lake of Fire exist God forgets them for the rest of eternity.
Hebrews 8:11-12
And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
So what kind of reasoning comes in to those who decide to pursue getting to know Him?
Originally posted by queenannie38
Originally posted by dbrandt
The word consciousness leaves a bad taste in my spirit because it is used by the new agers.
Originally posted by jfdarby
Is God in Hell ????????????????
No,No,No, No one is in hell yet ...
Originally posted by AkashicWanderer
But doesn't this mean god is not in hell? If he were, then he has failed at his goal of being seperated from evil.
How do we know this is God's goal?
Originally posted by jfdarby
Is God in Hell ????????????????
The Gates of Hell will not be open till the time of the Great White Throng Judgement..
Originally posted by spamandham
We don't of course. Come to think of it, we don't know anything about god(s) at all.
Originally posted by dbrandt
God tells us that He forgets our sins when we accept Christ.
Hebrews 8:12 and the second thing I wrote "if" in front of. That is a "what if" of mine.
Originally posted by AkashicWanderer
There, the next step is to realize we don't know anything about anything.
Originally posted by spamandham
We know truisms. Everything else is only approximately known, and we refer to that as knowledge as well. That which is outside the ability to be even approximately known is not referred to as knowledge.
Originally posted by AkashicWanderer
Even truisms we do not know.
Originally posted by AkashicWanderer
What do you mean by "approximately known", and what is outside of it?
Originally posted by dbrandt
Your right people are in hades temporarily and hell for eternity. Hades is also to a degree a seperation from God.
Originally posted by jfdarby
The Gates of Hell will not be open till the time of the Great White Throng Judgement..
Originally posted by dbrandt
www.gotquestions.org...
Originally posted by spamandham
If you believe in god, do you also believe he is omnipresent?
In several other threads, I have seen hell described not as a place of torture, but rather of eternal conscious separation from god. Supposedly, hell is a place for the unrepentant because god does not want to put up with sin eternally.
But doesn't this mean god is not in hell? If he were, then he has failed at his goal of being seperated from evil. But if he isn't in hell, then he isn't omnipresent.
Which is it?