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To: Salvation
Frankly, I cannot reconcile the idea of sending a person to burn in hell for all eternity - with the idea of a loving God. Does not compute...Does not compute...Does not compute...
5 posted on 05/28/2009 9:39:56 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: JesusIsLord

Yes, God is loving and wants us to come to him. “Ask, Seek, Knock”

However, God is also a just God.

What you are saying is that all will be forgiven whether they repent or not. That is not what John the Baptist or Jesus told us!


10 posted on 05/28/2009 4:25:49 PM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: JesusIsLord; Salvation
Frankly, I cannot reconcile the idea of sending a person to burn in hell for all eternity - with the idea of a loving God. Does not compute...Does not compute...Does not compute...

Consider this: God gave man a choice in the garden. To take God at His Word or to reject Him. Man made that choice and reaped the logical conclusion of that -- a separation from God.

Today, man has a choice to accept God and take Him at His Word or to reject Him. There are those who will accept and those who will reject...it's totally their choice. Those who accept Him will eventually live in eternity with Him; those who reject Him will eventually live in eternity without Him.

Imagine all of the human souls, reintegrated with incorruptible bodies, who have rejected God, along with all of the heavenly bodies who rebelled against God, all collected together and utterly separated (by their own will) from God. What would you end up with: utter destruction and annihilation that could not ever end (because incorruptible means incorruptible, after all). Would that not resemble a lake of fire to a man who was able to observe it (as Saint John was when he was inspired to write his apocalypse)?

The bottom line is that this does not occur by the will of God, but by His Grace -- His grace to allow His Creation to make choices.

12 posted on 05/29/2009 3:59:47 AM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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