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1 | Inability to believe | John 5:24 | New Creature | 63469 | ||
How is it possible that a loving and just God, could eternally condemn unbelievers to eternal torment, for their inability to believe the gospel message and respond in faith? Does God condemn them for their inability to turn from their sins? |
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2 | Inability to believe | John 5:24 | CDBJ | 63475 | ||
I would like to examine the first part of your question. (How is it possible that a loving and just God, could eternally condemn unbelievers to eternal torment, for their inability to believe the gospel message and respond in faith?) A loving God has made provision so that they won’t have to experience eternal torment; he just doesn’t force people to accept it. Is the captain of a ship at fault if he finds someone afloat in the middle of the ocean in a floundering boat and they refuse his help? Is a fireman at fault if someone refuses to follow him out of a burning building by stiff-arming him and telling him to leave them alone. I don’t see where love is the point of contention in these situations. Do you blame the man who planted the vineyard for not being kind to those that mistreated and killed his son? He made provision for them and they refused what he provided. Matthew 21:33-41 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: [34] And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. [35] And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. [36] Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. [37] But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. [38] But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. [39] And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. [40] When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? [41] They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. The Holiness of God is made up of his rightness and justice. What the rightness of God demands the justice of God executes. It is impossible for God to maintain his Holiness without executing his judgment or justice on those that refuse his grace gift of salvation that came to us through his Son Jesus. |
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