How do I stop being angry at God?

[Willie T]

Wow, forgive God. That is a new one there. Honestly, what would the purpose of this serve? God is already right now matter what anyone else says. If this is simply for my benefit it will not work, because to forgive you have to forget and not hold it against God. I simply cannot do that right now. Thank you for the suggestion though, maybe one day I will consider it.

I asked you "why can't you forgive God". And you, basically, answered, "because I can't".

Do you see an answer anywhere in there? I don't. All I see is you saying that you can't forgive God, and I think that much was already established.

So, why is it that you cannot forgive God? Have you no reason? Does that make a lot of sense to you? If so, you'd probably be the only one in the world.

 

[thesunisout]

God is the ultimate creator and force in the universe who revealed Himself in the bible and Jesus. He demands perfection on a level we cannot possibly achieve nor grasp and because of this He setences imperfect sinners to an eternity of being burned alive, because that is what perfect justice demands in His eyes. As far as my questions go, the main one would be:

Why does God demand eternal punishment for our sins if we (human beings) have no chance of fully understanding His holiness and the severity of our sins as He sees them?

He doesn't expect us to live without sin. He expects us to respond to His command to repent of our sins and accept Jesus as our savior. You cannot get to hell without pushing past the love and grace and warnings of God. It would be like a murderer whom the judge pardons out of mercy, yet the criminal tear up the pardon and spits in his face. The judge says to him, if you do not accept my pardon, you will receive the death penalty. The murderer says to the judge, I don't care! I will never stop murdering people. What would a good judge do? What you want is for God to set that murderer free, which would make him a corrupt judge.

Scripture says God created hell for the devil and his angels, and that Satan was the first sinner. We who follow in his footsteps will earn the same punishment. You say, well the punishment doesn't fit the crime. My answer to you is, how little value you seem to place upon the holiness of God. If Gods holiness is infinitely valuable, then any crime impinging on it is deserving of an infinite punishment. If you put His holiness on one end of the scale, and a temporal punishment in the other, you will find they do not balance one another out. Therefore, a temporal punishment is insufficient restitution. The only other restitution that God will accept as sufficient is a substitutionary atonement through the death of His Son. His Son is infinitely valuable, and thus forgiveness through His blood is sufficient payment for our crimes.

You're also forgetting that God doesn't *want* to send them to hell; as the scripture says, He is longsuffering and not willing that *any* should be perish but that all would come to repentance. He does not delight in the death of the wicked. But in the end, God is not going to force anyone to repent and stop doing evil. He is going to offer His pardon and warn them of the consequences. He is going to manifest His love and grace and mercy to them their entire lives. If someone can get to hell through all of that, then they only have themselves to blame.