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1 | Why so many destined for Hell? | 1 Pet 2:8 | Titus 3:4 | 70290 | ||
My sister asked me if I knew why God would want to create people who He knows will end up in Hell. In fact, the majority of people will end up there. I know God is perfectly just, and would be perfectly just to send the whole planet to hell, but she is not to accepting of that either. She doesn't see how God can fault people who were born with a fallen nature that is unable to not sin, and then send them to Hell forever because of it. Tough questions. I know God created Adam and Eve perfectly and without sin, and that we are suffering the consequences of their sin since they perfectly represented all of us. We can choose men to represent us in politics but they won't represent all of our wishes perfectly, but God can and did pick someone to represent us perfectly when He picked Adam and Eve. And I realize that God uses evil, suffering, and Hell to demonstrate His own glory, grace, love, mercy, justice, etc. But it is still tough to accept that we may have suffered forever, and that people we care about will suffer forever. My sister is just marveling over her new baby girl (number four child for her!) and the idea that any of our children would not be saved is just too painful to think about. Anybody have any comments or verses that I could share with her to help her (and me) to be able to see the glory in all this and to be able to praise God for it? | ||||||
2 | Why so many destined for Hell? | 1 Pet 2:8 | Reformer Joe | 70354 | ||
"My sister is just marveling over her new baby girl (number four child for her!) and the idea that any of our children would not be saved is just too painful to think about." I would recommend reading Deuteronomy 6 and Acts 2:39. I believe God works covenantally, in that if your sister and her husband are faithful to keep God's commandment -- and some would go so far as to say that such includes baptizing the girl (attention, other readers: please do not turn this thread into something it is not) -- to raise the girl as a Christian, praying for her and teaching her all of God's truth and living it out and encouraging her to embrace Jesus Christ in faith, that in the normal operation of things, God will bring their daughter to Himself. This is more than simply taking her to church with them, of course, but a lifelong commitment to nurture and shepherd a soul that will never, ever cease to exist. --Joe! |
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