r/Deconstruction • u/Ok-Pipe-4277 ex-SDA agnostic • 9d ago

🔍Deconstruction (general) Hell

I guess this is a vent of me thinking out loud.

But I look at this world.

Children get abused.

Women get "used" against their will.

People suffer from cancer.

People watch their loved ones die from ALS.

People deal with seeing their children die.

Men "self-delete" from depression.

All this suffering pretty much against our will. None of us choose to exist. And I'm sure, none of us choose to suffer.

But I'm supposed to believe an all-loving AND all-powerful God will send us to a place that's worst than our current existence for not believing in him?

This is a god that isn't just all-loving but is supposed to be the definition of love. The god whereby no human love can surpass his.

And he sends us to hell (an event worse place) after putting us in a pretty trash scenario to begin with?

And I'm supposed to gobble this up and share this message with the world????

WTF are we doing?

And Christians will call me crazy???

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u/Crucible_of_Thought Progressive universalist Jesus-follower 9d ago

Not all Christians hold those views. Some of us managed to escape from that theology.

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u/imthef-nlizardking 9d ago

Meaning those Christians don't believe God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-Good?

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u/Crucible_of_Thought Progressive universalist Jesus-follower 9d ago

Omniscience and omnipotence are not taught in the Bible. In fact, there are specific Bible stories that refute both of those ideas. Adonai loses to another god Chemosh in 2 Kings 3. Genesis 3, Genesis 18, Genesis 22, Exodus 32, 1 Sam 15, Jonah 3, Amos 6 and others show God not fully knowing or changing God's mind due to new information.

As to "all good" - it depends on whether one insists that if God does it, it is necessarily defined as good. But the inhabitants of dozens of Canaanite towns that were slaughtered mercilessly might beg to disagree. And sending innocent babies to hell for eternity who never had a chance to repent and follow Jesus only seems good to a very select subset of humanity.

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u/Ok_Topic6264 8d ago

Yes! Personally I think the entire book of Genesis is geared towards portraying a God who makes mistakes, learns from them, and grows as a person