snip: “How do you know whom God rejected?”
Spirited: Your question is not only incomplete but assumes omniscience on the part of man, which is not surprising given the towering narcissism of these days.
Of all lifeforms on this planet, only man is endowed with conscience and moral freedom to choose to do right, i.e. speak truth, or conversely to choose to do wrong, i.e. choose to lie. The beasts, on the other hand, do as they must do, for example, breed during breeding season.
Conscience and moral freedom (free will) are self-evident truths known to man by natural knowledge. In other words, he needs no empirical methodology to prove to him that he has these psychic endowments.
By extension he knows that a moral law exists and that he is not its’ creator, hence an unseen Law Maker obviously exists and that he (man) is uniquely different from all other lifeforms in light of both his psychic endowments and the existence of moral law.
In short, in that this knowledge is knowable to every man naturally, for him to say that he cannot know is inexcusable. For in the claim thereof, he has used his moral freedom to make a choice against his own Creator and against truth. In short, he has abused his free will to choose deception: to lie to himself and to others.
The point being that it is man himself who brings about his own indictment. Hell exists for every man who chooses it.
Excellent observation, spirited irish!
Thank you so much for this insightful essay/post!
The point being that it is man himself who brings about his own indictment. Hell exists for every man who chooses it.
Thank you oh so very much for your insights, dear sister in Christ!