I meant to post this Sunday, but forgot. :)
He who does not believe in Hell needs to move to Massghanistan.
People tend to create their own private hell right
here on earth. I’m over duality.
Infinite hell contradicts infinite love.
Finite hell, however, does not.
And finite can be a long, long, long time.
Unbelievers don’t understand the emotional pain the knowledge of God’s eternal wrath causes believers! We want others to know Christ and be saved to the uttermost! I’m slowly coming to accept that I must agree with God and respect any human’s choice to reject the Son. Still, we should plead with others to “be reconciled to God”.
The author may be confused.
“God’s unrelenting anger”??
Hell may be in fact, the individual’s conscious decision to turn his back on God.
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
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Saved from nothingness?
Okay...
The place of Satan in hell is probably best told in Milton's Paradise Lost...Satan rejected God and Milton has him saying that he would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
Jesus talked about hell quite a bit. I imagine it is like a city run by democrats for 1000 years....
There is a hell but it is not forever. GOD is a GOD of mercy and he will not punish humans for all time. Those who do not accept him will be put to death from which there is no resurrection. There are many who say this is not supported with biblical passages but if you read revelation you will see that when John says talks about being thrown into the lake of fire he is referring to Satan and the angles who followed him. God does not change for man. He created man mortal, he created Satan and the angles who followed him as immortal. In the final judgment he will honor those creations. Any Man who does not accept GOD as the only GOD and warship him will be put to death (mortal) and Satan and his demons will face the judgment they were given when they rebelled against GOD, eternal damnation.
Sorry, don’t have time for “how many angels fit on the head of a pin” internet arguments anymore. Didn’t even have time to catch up on the pings from replies on the threads in question.
My Dad had a stroke on Valentine’s Day. Suddenly these “burning forever vs. annihilation” arguments seem small and insignificant.
Thanks for the provocation anyway.
none of us are “good” by ourselves or by anything we do. you don’ t win prizes for following the law - ie merely doing what is expected of you.
those God considers “good” are those covered in the perfection of their Savior Jesus. His righteousness is imputed/credited to us and we are able to be considered “good” by God’s standard, because of Christ.
