Honour Amongst Christians

Do you believe coercion to be dishonorable?Do you believe that God will throw into Hell those who don't accept His Son as savior?Once you believe in this particular God and that He will do what He says, you are now being coerced into accepting His Son.The Word says: "Accept Jesus or Go To Hell" (my paraphrase).Sounds like coercion to me. Very similar to "Buy my life insurance or I will burn down your house".I guess coercion is an honorable tactic according to you.Edited by LinearAq, : Capitalizing pronouns that refer to iano's God.

I am free to escape from Hell without accepting Jesus as my savior? I don't understand.From my reading of the Bible and talking to different preachers, the only way to escape Hell is to accept Jesus.It's Jesus or "burn baby burn".Maybe you are speaking of being free to believe or not. How does that keep me from Hell?If God is real and He is the God you believe in, then my belief seems irrelevant except that it will still land me in Hell. The difference is that I don't believe the choice is real and you do. Therefore, your belief in that God puts you in the position of being coerced into accepting the Savior in order to obtain forgiveness. God refuses to forgive, a thing He could easily do, unless you accept His Son. For believers, it's Jesus or Hell. Serve me or die. How is this not coercion? How is this honorable?

The "Serve me or die" was another way of expressing God's requirement that we serve Him or be delicately placed in a warm (a mere 2500+ degrees) lake. Basically, it is a threat. Something I don't consider honorable.
Just because accepting His Son rewards you with Heaven doesn't make the threat any less real. It's not like God is not in control of Hell. Hell, He built the place with the full knowledge that He was going to put people there if they didn't serve Him.Apparantly you believe that threats of eternal punishment ARE honorable.