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To: pcottraux
"God doesn't send people to Hell. They send themselves there."

While it's a nice sentiment, it isn't strictly true. God take the active role in the destruction of the unrighteous.



Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

2 Thes 1
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;


Revelation 20:15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
33 posted on 04/01/2006 8:31:01 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus
God take the active role in the destruction of the unrighteous.

But they're the ones who choose to be unrighteous; therefore it's their own faults and not God's. Because God has no fault. It's their destruction they bring upon themselves.

I wasn't implying that people actually jump into Hell voluntarily.

39 posted on 04/01/2006 9:42:32 PM PST by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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