Dupi anjeun gaduh masalah jeung pamanggih a asih Allah condemning jalma ka kalanggengan di naraka? Ogé, Anjeun kedah. Kusabab teu aya anu kantos ngagaduhan masalah anu langkung ageung sareng ide ieu tibatan Gusti nyalira. In this series of articles we will examine Jesus’ teaching on this subject, in an effort to understand the nature of this problem. Have we misunderstood and exaggerated what Jesus said, or have we seriously under-estimated the near-impossibility of eradicating evil without eliminating ourselves?

This is a highly controversial and, in places, speculative subject; and we are not claiming to know all the correct answers. We ask only that you prayerfully weigh the evidence presented, whilst seeking fresh insights into the nature and ways of God that may surprise your current understanding. Space has been included for comments at the end of each chapter: so it is hoped that these will lead in time to further insights from which we may all learn.

The following is a brief summary of the topics covered. We have attempted to organize these so that you can either read them ‘book-fashion’, from beginning to end, or else dive directly into the topics that most interest you.

Click Ieuh to start at the beginning, atawa dina salah sahiji jejer di handap:

Pandangan Manusa

Jelas yén naon anu urang pilih pikeun dipercaya bakal mangaruhan sacara radikal kumaha urang ngahargaan kahirupan urang sorangan sareng kahirupan batur. Dina bab bubuka ieu urang bakal ngamimitian ku nalungtik bagian naon pangalaman manusa jeung sudut pandang urang geus dimaénkeun di shaping pamahaman urang tina pangajaran Alkitab ngeunaan subjek ieu..

• Naon Anu Ngadawuh Gusti, atawa Naon Urang Pikir?
  Upami teu aya kaadilan anu luhur, kumaha nu kawasa bisa dipertanggungjawabkeun? Tapi lamun aya, mangka urang kudu ngakuan yén sudut pandang manusa urang kawates anu rawan bias serius.
• Latar bersejarah
  Man began by knowing God: but having broken faith he faced death not knowing what would happen next. God promised restoration: but how He would do it remained a mystery.
• Kosakata Yesus
  Ku waktu Yesus sumping sababaraha konsep anu ogé ngadegkeun dina pamikiran Yahudi; but their contemporary meanings did not always tally with the explanations that Jesus gave…

Hubungan antara Cinta jeung Jahat

We humans can also be surprisingly naïve concerning the nature of the relationship between ‘good’ and ‘evil.’ In these chapters we explore the real nature and interrelationships of goodness, bogoh, kabebasan, egois sareng korupsi pikeun ngabantosan urang ngartos naha masalah moral ieu ngagaduhan akibat anu ageung dina terang kalanggengan..

• Naha Allah Tegas pisan?
  So much is said about Jesus’ love and forgiveness that we often suppose Jesus has a more liberal attitude towards sin than God had in the past. Kanyataanna, his standards are much tougher.
• Imposibilitas cinta wajib
  No English word has ever been more dangerously devalued than ‘love.’ To ask, 'Lamun Allah maha kawasa, why can’t He make us more loving?’ turns out to be a logical self-contradiction.
• Spiral Ganas Jahat
  Naha, dibéré waktu, tiasa urang teu ningkatkeun? Don’t most of us really want to simply love and be loved? So why does evil tend to multiply in a downward spiral?

Pesen Yesus

We now take an in-depth look at Jesus’ own descriptions of what will happen when we die and how God will ultimately intervene to put a stop to all the evil in this world.

• Nyaéta Jesus anu dimaksud? Guru Rabbinic mindeng ngagunakeun exaggerations ngahaja sangkan titik. Naha Yesus henteu ngan ukur ngalakukeun hal anu sami?
• Naon anu kami terang?
  Sateuacan ngaléngkah mertimbangkeun pangajaran ngeunaan topik ieu di tempat sanés dina Perjanjian Anyar, bakal mantuan mun nyimpulkeun naon urang pasti bisa nyebutkeun dina dasar pangajaran Yesus sorangan.
• Perjuangan Ngartos
  assertions Yesus sorangan, tambah sababaraha patarosan unresolved ngeunaan harti pasti na, ninggalkeun urang nyanghareupan hiji perjuangan intelektual jeung emosional pikeun ngarti tur nampa pesen na.

Dilema Allah

No-one ever had a bigger problem with the idea of condemning people to eternal destruction than God himself. In these final chapters we will consider the extremes of pain which He has endured so that none of us need suffer such a fate.

• Duka dewa
  Sateuacan nyandak ulikan ieu ka kacindekan kuring hoyong urang nyobian ngartos sudut pandang Allah sorangan kana kasalahan anu urang lakukeun..
• Naraka meunang?
  Rentang sajarah pinuh ku puing-puing peradaban anu baheulana hébat sareng katingalina teu tiasa dielehkeun.. Sajauh ieu kahirupan manusa salamet. Tapi naha 'kauntungan' urang bakal béak?
• Atawa Surga Bayar?
  Kami biasa nyarios yén upami urang gagal "meunang" bakal aya "naraka anu mayar!” Tapi kabeneran urang moal pernah meunang atawa meunang tempat di surga, kumaha teuas urang nyobian.

Lampiran

• Lampiran A – Sabaraha lami hiji Aeon?
  Naha kalanggengan kantos mungkas?
• Lampiran B – The Buck eureun Dimana?
  Kumaha bisa aya tungtung permanén pikeun kasalahan jeung éra?
• Lampiran C – Nyaeta Maot Salawasna?
  Naha aya tungtung kasangsaraan jalma di Naraka?
• Lampiran D – Dosa nu teu bisa dihampura
  Naon ini, jeung naha éta unforgivable?