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To: heights

Really? You are going to go up against the God of the Bible on this?

Don’t you think mass murderers deserve to be repaid in kind for their sins?

Would you rather believe that everyone gets off Scot-free for crimes committed on earth?

In other words, if there is no Hell, God is not Just.


12 posted on 10/10/2017 1:32:31 AM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus, please frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised in Your Word)
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To: Sontagged

IMHO, you’re missing the Gospel message.

I’ve heard it better expressed this way.

Ever since the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, every human now has the ability to discern good and evil.

This is very important and simply obvious, because God warned Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit, less they would surely die.

Death is a state of existence involving separation.

When we discern good and evil, we are easily tempted to judge rather than discern, and when we substitute our thinking for what God provides, we fall out of fellowship with Him,...i.e. we miss the mark, ie, the defn of sin.

Regarding sin and hell.

All humanity has been condemned to hell. We aren’t predestined to go to Hades, as God has provided a Perfect Sacrifice for all sins, past, present and future in the death of Christ on the Cross. All sins have now been judged.

We though are only forgiven, once through faith in that Sacrifice we return to Him for salvation from condemnation, by facing him, turning away from the sin and confessing it to Him through faith in what He provided. That is a hasty summary of the Gospel.

Nobody is sent to the Lake of Fire for their sins. They are sent there because they are already condemned and they have refused to accept the forgiveness made available to them.

Today, those who have died and never had faith in Christ, reside in the Torments, until the Great White Throne Judgment.

More importantly, those who simply have faced God, confessed their sins, known and unknown to Him, through faith in what Christ provided on the Cross, are then immediately given a regenerated human spirit, which is what lives eternally with Him after we die with our soul (separated from our bodies). Believers now are face to face with the Lord upon death.

Vengeance is the Lord’s.

We too often want revenge instead of justice.

The difference between grace and mercy is getting what we don’t deserve and not receiving what we do deserve.


30 posted on 10/10/2017 4:11:19 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Sontagged
Don’t you think mass murderers deserve to be repaid in kind for their sins? Would you rather believe that everyone gets off Scot-free for crimes committed on earth?

What about mass murderers who repent and become Christians? Don't they get off Scot-free for comes committed on earth?

Anyway, most people in hell aren't mass murderers. They're just ordinary people who never accepted Christ.

103 posted on 10/10/2017 8:42:38 AM PDT by Hepsabeth
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