Subject: How could God send anyone to hell ? |
Bible Note: 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 |