Unaccepted sacrifice

[nobspeople]

It's said god sacrificed its son for the sins of mankind (though, surely, there are those that would argue that point, though this is not the place).
Let's assume that sacrifice is true and happened:
I didn't ask for it.
You didn't ask for it (at least initially - you may have once you were guilted into believing you need it).
I don't know of anyone, living or dead or to be alive, that asked for it without being guilted into believing you need it.
Yet, some claim if said sacrifice isn't accepted, those people will go to hell for eternity (again, this is debatable but not in this thread).

For discussion:
If one didn't ask for the sacrifice, and don't accept it, why should they be allowed to be punished for it by being sent to hell? Surely, god isn't so 'righteous' that it would allow those that it loves to be eternalized in hell for eternity? If god that petty?

[JehovahsWitness]

If they want to live forever what do they have to do?

I posted that information in my original post
viewtopic.php?p=1065504#p1065504

JOHN 3:16

"For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son,+ so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.

JW

[ * ]PLEASE NOTE : I am ONLY mentioning the bible to show what Christianity says in line with subforum guidelines, not to prove that a statement or story therein is true. I am not presenting the bible as authorative or proof of truth and have no intention to add an argument to that end in this subforum See LINKS for details: viewtopic.php?p=213491#p213491

[1213]

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If one didn't ask for the sacrifice, and don't accept it, why should they be allowed to be punished for it by being sent to hell?...

The reason why person geos to hell is that he is not righteous, but sinful. Accepting the "sacrifice" could help. But rejecting the "sacrifice" means just that the sin remains, which is why also the judgment remains. Rejecting the "sacrifice" I not the reason for the judgment. Rejecting the "sacrifice" means only that the judgment, that comes because of sin, remains.

[TRANSPONDER]

How about Oblivion - or as the Buddhists call it, 'Nirvana'.

Whatever. I am presenting biblical* teachings, I think there may be a subforum for Buddhism. Biblically there isn't any part of a person that continues to existence after biological function ceases. If someone doesn't want to live, they can just go ahead and ... not live. If by "oblivion"/nirvana, the Bouddhists mean, complete non-existence then it is not a 3rd option, its just another name for the 2nd.




JW

[ * ] I am ONLY mentioning the bible to show what Christianity says in line with subforum guidelines, not to prove that a statement or story therein is true. I am not presenting the bible as authorative or proof of truth and have no intention to add an argument to that end in this subforum See LINKS for details: viewtopic.php?p=213491#p213491

So am I. Or at least Your teachings, whether they correspond with the Bible or not.

You mentioned another option. Oblivion is one alternative to being 'with' God I suppose. I mention Nirvana, not to discuss Buddhism but to point up that Oblivion isn't something horrific - in Buddhism it is something they give up everything that makes life worth living (admittedly they get another one) in order to get Oblivion (Nirvana) which (aside the atheist afterlife) is what atheists get for free - according to the Dogma in the Atheist Bible, which, like the Maafia, does not exist.

So the 2nd alternative is 'separation from God', which is a crypto -UR hellthreat, because if it isn't unpleasant ..what's to worry about? so that makes it a 3rd option, even if YOU don't believe in the 2nd.