Posted on 06/04/2014 6:52:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Yep. Hell is a choice and we all have to make that choice. This tripe is from someone that says, “God is love and no loving God would ever do something so cruel as to send someone to hell forever.” That God is love is certainly true. But that is not all that God is. God is absolute justice as well and that is the basis for the possibility of eternal hell. He explicitly gave grounds for someone to be consigned to hell. Among them is the one sin that God will not forgive, ever. That is a final, irrevocable rejection of what God offers us - His Son as our saviour, lord and master.
Demon Linker is a leftist thinker. If you wonder how progressive thought has deformed and redefined Christianity, you can read Linker to see how it has come about.
Linker sees Christianity through the liberal prism: everything is false and distorted. The lens through which he looks is colored by liberal notions of racism, homosexuality, identity politics and progressive “social justice”. “Christian” liberals ignore what does not conform to their groupthink.
In this article, for example, Linker completely ignores what Jesus Christ and Christian scripture says repeatedly about life after death and who may enter Heaven and who may not. There will be a separation of wheat from chaff, of goats from sheep, and the weeds will burn for eternity.
God makes the rules. And from what the Holy Bible says, universalism is not what God has ordained for us.
As with all liberals (including this liberal in sheep’s clothing) his “truth” is based on false premise.
Don’t look for Hitler or Judas in Heaven.
I would substitute ‘monotheistic malice’ for Christian malice’.
While I can fully understand the purpose/need for the concept of hell, I don’t see how it can actually serve any purpose, unless we come back in another body, with the previous memories.
Myself, I don’t believe anything man can do for his 70-80 yrs on this planet would deserve any afterlife punishment, especially an eternity of it.
I completely agree with this Salvation requires a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and Christianity provides many ways to achieve this..
At its root this argument is not a new one and is simply a denial of the existence of Satan and his minions (his oldest and most successful lie) If there is no Hell, then the father of lies that has dominion over the lost is a figment of medieval artists ( his article even hints at this) It is a classic pseudo enlightened argument that there is no fallen angel who wills the destruction of man. We are only subject to our own foibles that we can can talk ourselves out of if given a sufficient time of reflection.
The author of this piece appears to be greatly deceived by the oldest lie in the book and even worse is trying to lead any souls who will believe him down the road to perdition.
Someone taught you something that only God knows? Did you ask them how they knew?
Luke 16:19-31
This is all anybody needs to know about Hell and how permanent it really is. The Rich Man (notice Christ doesn’t even mention his name) was doomed for eternity—he knew it. Which is why he was so desperate that somebody tell his then living relatives what to do in order to avoid his situation.
I can’t think of a more horrible place than a hell where God is totally devoid and brutality reigns supreme. For those, who deny it’s existence (But more importantly Christ’s Redeeming Saving Power), just know that you are a car wreck or heart attack away from experiencing exactly what this “rich man” and countless billions of others are experiencing.
In certain schools of Christian thought, hell is not everlasting, but a more painful form of purgatory.
Um, hell is thrown into the lake of fire. And the fate of the damned is eternal. The question is, are they alive and feeling pain during that eternity. Some of us argue that the fate of the saved is everlasting life and its opposite would be everlasting death. That is, you die and stay dead, forever. Which is why the fate of the lost is called eternal, and called death, destruction, perish, etc.
Just pointing out that one thing...
.....Or begin by believing in God, you are on your way to salvation.
This parable happened before the Crucifixion and subsequent Resurrection. Heaven’s Gates were opened upon Jesus’ finished work on the cross to those who were in Paradise (Or Abraham’s bosom).
Therefore, those confined in Hades cannot see nor converse any longer with those who were in Paradise.
Why would a man who rejected God in life begin to love Him in death while experiencing His pent-up wrath? Natural men alive on Earth have no ability to stop sinning, what evidence is there dead men in Hell have such an ability?
I believe the Bible clearly teaches Hell is forever. All those not in Christ will experience God’s wrath for their sin forever. What that really looks like I can only imagine. All I know is that the cup of His wrath will be perfectly measured and just in proportion with their sin and that all rebels will be made to drink the wine of His fury to the dregs.
“For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed,
and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.”
—Psalm 75:8
I am good with it.
If the worst can repent and be forgiven, maybe I can, too.
Interesting.
Revelation 20:10
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
I don’t believe churches are literal lamstands.
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