I've done some reading, and I reject the idea of a permanent Hell. God loves all of us, even the worst of sinners so why would he put his children through eternal damnation? I believe that we are ALL going to be forgiven, even the ones that reject God. We may not all go to heaven, but I think that we will have a choice whether to stay on the reborn earth, or to journey into heaven, a personal heaven if you will, that reflects what makes us happy.
Some of the things I believe are a little hard to put into words... But I also think that God can not be explained with human logic, since we are inherently flawed, everything we do is flawed... especially our logic.
If I could teach one thing to my children about God... it would be that he loves all of us. No matter what we do, like a good father should. And that though he may not always be making everything in our lives perfect... That's what a father has to do. He has to step back and let his children make their own mistakes. You can't keep a child sheltered forever, and you can give advice (as he always does) but you have to let them learn. And a father also punishes. When a child does something wrong they have to be punished until they learn from their mistake. It is true that some people never learn, as flawed beings this is certainly possible. That's where the lake of fire comes in, in revelation. The lake of fire is not a punishment, but a baptism. You go through these flames, and come out pure. A spiritual fire, if you will.
And here's where we come to the super controversial part of my opinion :'P As a scientist I have to believe in evidence, and the evidence tells me that Evolution has occurred, and is still occurring... Evolution at this point is a fact and a theory. We know that it happened, but we don't really know HOW. We don't know the mechanism. I believe that God is the mechanism. He nudges life from time to time to make it go where he planned for it to go. I noticed in the bible it talks about the creation of the universe, and then the creation of man, and THEN the creation of Adam and Eve. (Adam actually meaning "first" in the original Hebrew)
I believe that God used evolution as his tool to create our world, and then created Adam and Eve to be his special children. Because the Bible also talks about the people that Cain went to live with that weren't mentioned before. And that when he sent the flood, not only to wipe out the sinful, and the Nephilim, but also to purify us back to the descendants of Adam and Eve.
There has been a lot of genetic studies done, showing that all people are related to a Genetic Adam, and a Genetic Eve.
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