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1 posted on 04/14/2014 6:21:31 AM PDT by franky8

Actually, hell is temporary. It too is destroyed after the judgement.

2 posted on 04/14/2014 6:42:55 AM PDT by cuban leaf

3 posted on 04/14/2014 6:46:56 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)

5 posted on 04/14/2014 7:04:45 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)

The predominating opinion among the great writers of the Church is that most souls are lost eternally because they do not cooperate with the graces that God makes available to men to save their souls.

WHAT IF GOD COULD BE STOPPED BY US?
(Sung to the tune of "One of Us" by Joan Osborne)

If God decreed His will, what would it be and
could you slap Him in the face if you didn’t want to
be with Him in all His Glory, what could you do
if you had completely free will...

Yeah, yeah- I am Great
Yeah, yeah- God is Good
Yeah, yeah- yeah (3x)

{chorus}
What if God could be stopped by us?
Any slob, maybe one of us?
Man’s logic rides the shorter bus, without the fare to get home...

If God had a Face, what would it look like and
would you dare slap it, if slapping meant that
you don’t have to believe if He predestined you to
bow the knee to Jesus and surrender all
to Him and...

{chorus}

Tryin' to make my way home
Back up to Heaven on my own...
No playing music with a song
God can’t make us not be wrong

6 posted on 04/14/2014 7:05:39 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")

“For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Not exactly a cause for optimism. These and similar passages have always troubled me.

The problem of pain and the greater chance of being chaff than wheat would seem to serve the arguments of the atheists.

17 posted on 04/15/2014 9:50:25 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)

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