What happens to truly evil people when die?

Germanshepherdsmum

I’m neither pure nor holy patrioticfella, I’m an ordinary flawed human being and don’t pretend otherwise. However I believe in God and I don’t believe he reserves space in heaven only for good or Christian people. Quite what I have said to provoke your attack I don’t know.

He does GSM, otherwise there’d be no point in becoming a Christian. You’d just take your chances at death. It’s not about being ‘ good and nice’. It’s about accepting and deciding you want to follow Jesus. There’ll be many people there who were ‘bad’ on earth, but repented, so of course He has space them.

I remember a preacher years ago saying when we get to Heaven, there’ll be people there you would never have expected. Anyone can repent, that’s the whole point. Repentance is the key whoever you are,

Patrioticfella. The Bible talks about children being Holy, until old enough to make their decision about whether they want to be with God or not. I always think it’s all children, as they’re too young to understand

Evil people are neither missed nor mourned. Those who are loved live in our hearts forever.

Truly evil people when their lives end, are relieved of their ignorance and stupidity.

That's a pity; I'd hoped they'd find no relief. Ever.

Truly evil people when their lives end, are relieved of their ignorance and stupidity.

I don't know, nobody knows.

I’m neither pure nor holy patrioticfella, I’m an ordinary flawed human being and don’t pretend otherwise. However I believe in God and I don’t believe he reserves space in heaven only for good or Christian people. Quite what I have said to provoke your attack I don’t know.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, like the rest of us.

part of our flawed human nature God created Just wondering - if any one of us were an all-powerful creator would we choose to create flawed humans or something a bit better than that? More to the point would we do so if we were a good and loving creator?

I am just reading This Tender Land and there was an interesting quote therein.
“Listen Odie, what does a shepherd eat? I didn’t know where he was going with that so I didn’t reply. “His flock”, Albert told me. “One by one.”

Galaxy

Are you God patrioticfella? Because that's going to be really inconvenient for my atheism.

No, just some keyboard warrior who thinks he is!

Are you God patrioticfella? Because that's going to be really inconvenient for my atheism.

Patrioticfella you’re not coming across so great yourself!

Geemanshepherdsmum, that was directed at you.

You speak as if you are so pure and holy. Yes, it does sound vengeful because it is. Wake up

I hope they do find peace and love if God so chooses that for them. You are not viewed in any higher regard by God than the folks you call "evil" that you hope don't find love or peace. The sooner you realize this the better.

You are a victim of human emotion. God is not a victim of that and thankfully for all of us he does not judge us through emotional flawed eyes as us humans tend to do.

None are "innocent" btw, not even children. We are all children to God

Wishing anyone to go to "hell" is actually an evil thing and part of our flawed human nature God created. God is well aware of how horrible his creations can be and no act no matter how wicked it seems to us shocks Him. I'm sure He sees things in a very different light than us humans do.

I have no religious beliefs human nature is complex and we don’t know why people turn out evil. We are all born in our time and we die in our time we live on through our offspring and memories.
There is no heaven or hell we can see what’s around the planet now we have the technology so they don’t exist.

You ask what happens when we die? Well, I believe in a loving and forgiving God who forgives our sins. Everyone of us is human and we alllllll sway off the road that God intends for us, but i believe that if we realise we have done wrong, whatever it may be and we repent of our wrong doings and try our level best not to do them again then i believe that only God knows our hearts and forgives, if we truly repent.

Your BIL only has God to answer to, we as human beings have no say in what happens when a person dies, obviously.

Yes, if they're bad through and through then we only have our own personal view on it, but once we take our last breath, then God takes charge.

This is where I come unstuck with religion and belief My Dad was a kind and gentle man who was honest and thoughtful but he didn’t believe now according to the church he will rot in hell because he didn’t believe. I m similar, although
I ve made far more mistakes in life than I think he ever did so I m sure I m not as clean as he was but I ve tried my best under some blooming difficult times however my end is forecasted the same
I was told by a fervent Church of England follower that no non Christians can go to heaven !!! and now again here by Discodancer We only know that Christians will be taken to the next life. bit of an exclusive club then DD It doesn’t sound very all encompassing
I try hard to believe but none of it seems to sit right how ever hard I try I wish I could wave a magic wand and become religious I m sure their minds are much more comforted by the thought of a happy after life than mine are

If you truly repent and trust in the Lord then you will be forgiven by God no matter what. That is God’s gift to us as humans. It involves true acceptance of our sin which is not so easy as it sounds.

EllanVannin

I think that people like this suffer for all or most of their lives in some way, so they've lived with their punishments in a sense and not the normal lives that most of us enjoy. Sad really.

Well said, suffering in itself is punishment. Sad thing is that they may of been a product of their environment where bad things happened and they learned and repeated this pattern. Everyone has choices and help is available but many people cannot see that they need the help or do not believe in it. So the cycle continues round and round they go.

No need to apologise Blondiescote.

Smileless2012

Blondiescote just because something is done in the name of religion, doesn't mean that it's done because of that religion, and wouldn't have happened without it.

I agree GSM especially at this time of year which is so important to Christians.

Sorry, but that makes absolutely NO sense to me whatsoever.