Ezio auditore da firenze :
Honestly, if God’s reason for not showing Himself is because we’d “lose our free will,” then is that free will really worth it if the consequence is supposed to be eternal suffering? That question almost made me lose my faith. But when I looked deeper, I realized something the Bible never clearly teaches eternal torture. The whole “burning forever” idea came from later interpretations.
Lucifer was created to praise God, but he chose not to. He chose eternal separation from God, and that is what the original idea of “hell” actually referred to not a torture chamber, but simply being cut off from the source of life and goodness. People later took that separation and turned it into an image of eternal fire and punishment.
And for humans, it never made sense to me that a loving God would create infinite suffering for beings who only have finite lives. So the more I researched, the more it made sense that if a person doesn’t choose God, they simply return to non existence the same state we were in before we were born. No pain, no torture, just nothingness.
But if someone chooses God, that’s where eternal life comes in which Jesus showed by becoming human, proving that humans can share that eternal life if they want to.
2025-12-01 14:39:39