You’re not seeing this right. He’s not going to do it, the devil is. And yeh he is all powerful so technically yes he is also allowing it to happen under his watch. But it’s only to teach you a lesson because he loves you so much. And he agrees on at least some level that burning in a pit of fire for all eternity is a fair, just and effective way for people to learn how to love him.
Actually, in Christian lore the devil will be another inmate in hell, not the leader of it.
Growing up, the justification for hell I always heard was this:
No one is torturing you in hell. Hell is just the complete separation from God, which is in and of itself tortuous. God doesn’t want to separate you from him. But if you’re sinful, and haven’t accepted Jesus’s washing away of your sins, he doesn’t have a choice!
I don’t really think this holds up, and honestly I’ve kinda forgotten why I was writing this comment in the first place.
You’re not seeing this right. He’s not going to do it, the devil is. And yeh he is all powerful so technically yes he is also allowing it to happen under his watch. But it’s only to teach you a lesson because he loves you so much. And he agrees on at least some level that burning in a pit of fire for all eternity is a fair, just and effective way for people to learn how to love him.
According to fundie beliefs God runs hell, Satan is just another inmate.
What a shithead
Actually, in Christian lore the devil will be another inmate in hell, not the leader of it.
Growing up, the justification for hell I always heard was this: No one is torturing you in hell. Hell is just the complete separation from God, which is in and of itself tortuous. God doesn’t want to separate you from him. But if you’re sinful, and haven’t accepted Jesus’s washing away of your sins, he doesn’t have a choice!
I don’t really think this holds up, and honestly I’ve kinda forgotten why I was writing this comment in the first place.
It’s the exact playbook of abusers.