I truly understand how you feel and I am with you 100% in spirit — however many Christians are NOT willing to live with the following:
ARE YOU?
Supplement to the article:
What about those in non-Christian lands in say 1600 A.D. who died
having never heard a single world of the gospel message? Is God
good and just to abandon such persons to Gehenna? And does He
actually do that?
It is important to find a reasonable solution to the problems raised
by these three questions because the notion that God consigns to Gehenna
for all eternity all people (past, present, and future) who lived and died
without ever hearing the gospel, characterizes God as unreasonable,
mean-spirited and cruel (which He most certainly is not).
Many who hold the view that God does do exactly that, have not paused
to seriously consider what they so readily believe about the character of
God.
Akua Adisa was born in 1600 A.D. in Africa and he lived to an old age and
died without ever hearing a single word of the gospel.
Are you going to proclaim that God will consign Akua to sternal Hell and
at the same time tell everybody that “God is love?”
Remember, on the traditional view of Hell, when Akua has suffered in agony
in Hell for 999 trillion (to the power of 500) years, he is no nearer to the end
than when he first entered Hell. It is not possible to reconcile such as this
with 1 John 4:8 “God is love.”
Thought Experiment:
How long is an Eternity of agony in Hell? Let us say a sparrow is magically
assigned the task of cutting the Earth in half and the sparrow is to fly by
the Earth every 100 years and brush one of its wings against the ground
surface of the Earth. How many years would it take the sparrow to cut the
Earth in half? For argument’s sake let us say it took in years 999 trillion to
the power of 999 trillion. So? So Akua Adisa, after being in agony in
Hell for as long as it took that sparrow to cut the Earth in half, would be no
closer to the end of his agony than when he first entered Hell.
Such as this is not possible to reconcile with 1 John 4:8 “God is love”
or with the general character of God as presented in the Bible.
We need a solution to this problem and a good start in finding one is God’s
Middle Knowledge as presented in this article.
JAG
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I simply trust God at His Word. I am not more holy or good than Him. What He has revealed is, we urgently all need to put our trust in Christ and in order to do that we must know who He is. I am not going to, in the least bit, say He is not good. He defines what “good” means; we don’t.
I appreciate your compassion and trust it fuels a fervent effort to share the gospel, in person as well as in missionary and Bible distribution etc support.