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1 | How could God send anyone to hell ? | John | mil | 141424 | ||
I need scripture verses to answer my son in laws question " How could a loving God send anyone to hell?" His best friend is a Buddist and he can't imagine this nice guy needs Christ as a Saviour, when he already has his own belief system. | ||||||
2 | How could God send anyone to hell ? | John | Tiffany25 | 141425 | ||
I recommend the book "Letters from a Skeptic" by- Gregory Boyd. It answers this question better than I could ever put into words. Basically- It simply explains that God does not send anyone to hell... Well, you just have to read it. I know it will help your son. | ||||||
3 | How could God send anyone to hell ? | John | tgc | 141442 | ||
The answer to this question is that God does not send anyone to Hell. We choose that for ourselves by rejecting Jesus as our Lord and Savior. For a scriptural backing to ths just look at John chapter 3 verses 1-21. This is Jesus discourse with Nicodemus on the matter of salvation. To show that God does not accept man on man's terms but only on the terms of Christ Himself just look to Acts chapter 17 :16-34 this is Paul's adress to the Areopagus where he discusses these matters with the people of Greece and therir religous system. Then there is the ovious that if we could just have any belief system we want it really doesn't matter then what good was the Cross. To see the biblical view of religous systems other than that which was brought by Jesus check the books of 1 John and 2 John. This is just a very basic scetch that I have given much more could be said some exceelent works have been written on this issue from those such as Hank Hengraffe, Norman Giesler,Josh McDowell, and others some titles that come to mind are When Skeptics Ask, When Critics Ask, and The Bible Answer Book just to name a few. Also last term in school we where in the writtings of John and had to write a lesson plan out of these my paper was based out of John chapter 3 and I would be glad to email to you if you like as it is to large to post. Hope this helps. In The Love Of Christ, tgc |
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4 | How could God send anyone to hell ? | John | DocTrinsograce | 141516 | ||
You wrote, "God does not send anyone to Hell. We choose that for ourselves..." Oh my, tgc, I disagree! Simply ask yourself the question, "From *what* are we saved?" The worst thing that can happen to anyone is to be naked and exposed before the wrath of the Holy Lord God! God is the legislator, injured party, eye-witness, prosecutor, judge, and executioner. Just look at the Biblical references containing the word "wrath." I've never quite understood this effort to somehow protect God from acts that are perfectly consistent with His holiness. Maybe it has to do with not really understanding what God's holiness is all about. Frankly, I think it is telling when people ask "How can God send people to hell?" That question reveals a far too minimized view of man's guilt and a far too demeaned view of God's holiness. A better question would be "How can God send people to heaven?" In Him, Doc |
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5 | How could God send anyone to hell ? | John | tgc | 141522 | ||
Well there has to be a first time for everything Doc, as far as I can remember this is the first time we have disagreed. Now understand that I agree with you in that we are saved from God's wrath through Jesus. I agree with you that that the worst thing that could happen to a person is to stand naked in ones own works and their own strength before a Holy and Rightpous God. I would also agree that a very good question is how could God allow us in to His heaven. The answer to this is grace. The reason Jesus came was to make it possible for us to be united with God through the rightousness of Christ. God put together a plan from before the foundation of the world to redeem all those who would belive through faith on the name of Jesus. God has revealed Himself through Natural Law, Creation, the prophets, Through The Incarnation of Jesus, the Holy Bible, His church. God has made every opportunity for man to repent and belive in the name of Jesus and He has clearly informed us of what it means to reject Jesus that is seperation from Him for all eternity in hell. So if God has went to such great lengths such as the cross then man has to make a choice to either accept Jesus and msake Him Lord and Savior or rejecrt Him and pay the cost of that rejection. I fail to see how this view in anyway minimizes man's guilt or demeans the Holiness of God in anyway. I would argue just the opposite that it clearly and definitely highlights man's guilt and man's helplessness to do anything about that guilt before a just and holy God and that only through the devine intervention of God can man have any hope. I would also argue that it highlights God's holiness in that He wqorks through creatures that can choose to accept or reject Him and not through robots preprogramed. This arguement is not to protect God but to glorify Him in all His majasty. In The Love Of Christ, tgc |
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