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To: Mr. Douglas

God created our soul in his own image, to live forever. It is our choice WHERE we will spend eternity. He has made every effort to put a roadblock to hell for us, He sacrificed His own Son to keep us from going there. He sent the Holy Spirit to convict us of our sin and to lead us into all righteousness. We have the responsibility to submit our own will to this plan of God’s, sometimes referred to as “the foolishness of God”. Such a plan seems foolish to the natural man, but to the one that humbly submits to Him, it is salvation (rescue from hell).


13 posted on 11/29/2016 3:22:14 PM PST by georgiegirl (Count me in the half that's in the Deplorable Basket)
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To: georgiegirl

God created our soul in his own image, to live forever.


Yes. Sadly, Adams sin ended it. In fact, it is clear in Genesis that God removed Adam and Eve from the tree of life so they would NOT live forever.


20 posted on 11/29/2016 4:14:36 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: georgiegirl

Again, hell is a made up place. Jesus spoke of Gehenna, a real place with a sordid history, as an allegory for the permanent fate of the lost. He also used the example of weeds being burned UP. i.e. no longer in existence. It’s really very clear when you forget anyone ever told you about an eternal torture in a fiery “hell”.

The word of God is very clear about the fate of the lost human beings. It is even juxtaposed against the fate of the saved in places like John 3:16 and Romans 6:23. The saved receive eternal life. The lost don’t. The lost are destroyed, die, perish, etc. They are like chess pieces permanently removed from the chess board, as happened to Sodom and Gomorra.


22 posted on 11/29/2016 4:23:54 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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