Could I go to Hell because I can't understand the Christian God, thus making it harder for me to want to believe?
Could I go to Hell because I can't understand the Christian God, thus making it harder for me to want to believe?
Chase Smith
Brandon Reed
read books
Ryan Young
not really.
Ethan Kelly
God doesn't punish anyone for something they can't do. The less capability you have, the less culpability for your neglect.
Parker Perry
No one can truly understand God. We can only think we understand Him based on scriptures.
Nolan Bailey
Consult the bible
Christopher Moore
Its totally fine If you don’t believe
Some people are connected in a different way
You might have very good reasons to not believe in the way you’re describing
I believe only God knows what’s in the heart
Again, it’s fine, no real believer gives a fuck if you believe or not
But if your a evil person it’s an easy way for them to describe your behavior as Godless because God for them is the representation of perfect Live and Goodness and Beauty etc. if you lack those things in your soul it’s easy to describe you as Godless, but their not really pointing to your religious beliefs as much as your disconnection from all those things that make life Good, that make you Good, deserving of Good etc
Jaxon Edwards
>God doesn't punish anyone for something they can't do.
in divine comedy the greeks are in the limbo, though. They are not getting flame up the ass 24/7 but are in eternal hopelessness of salvation
David Miller
>God doesn't punish anyone for something they can't do.
What somebody cannot do is subjective, and decided by you, a follower of God.
Eli Mitchell
'Lord, are they few that are saved? But he said to them: Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able.'
Luke 13:23-24
'For many are called, but few chosen.'
Mark 20:16
'Behold how many there are who are called, and how few who are chosen! And behold, if you have no care for yourself, your perdition is more certain than your amendment, especially since the way that leads to eternal life is so narrow.'
St. John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church
'The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
'The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.'
St. Augustine,
'All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori,
'The number of the elect is so small - so small - that were we to know how small it is, we should faint away with grief. The number of the elect is so small that were God to assemble them together, He would cry to them, as He did of old, by the mouth of His prophet, "Gather yourselves together, one by one" - one from this province, one from that kingdom.'
St. Louis Marie de Montfort
'Our chronicles relate an even more dreadful happening. One of our brothers, well-known for his doctrine and holiness, was preaching in Germany. He represented the ugliness of the sin of impurity so forceful that a woman fell dead of sorrow in front of everyone. Then, coming back to life, she said, "When I was presented before the Tribunal of God, sixty thousand people arrived at the same time from all parts of the world; out of that number, three were saved by going to Purgatory, and all the rest were damned.'
St. Leonard of Port Maurice
'That those who walk in the way of salvation are the smaller number is due to the vice and depraved habits imbibed in youth and nourished in childhood. By these means Lucifer has hurled into Hell so great a number of souls, and continues thus to hurl them into Hell every day, casting so many nations from abyss to abyss of darkness and errors, such as are contained in the heresies and false sects of the infidels.'
Ven. Mary of Agreda
'We owe God a deep regret of gratitude for the purely gratuitous gift of the true faith with which he has favored us. How many are the infidels, heretics and schismatic who do not enjoy comparable happiness? The earth is full of them and they are all lost!'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori,