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NASB | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
Bible Question: my dad has asked me a question that i need the exact verces to try to make him understand...if god is a merciful how could he send so many to hell? also he ask if i thought the jews who died in hitlers rule go to hell? why? |
Bible Answer: Hi again. Hell was not prepared for man. It was prepared for the Devil and his angels, the demon world (Matt 25.41). Unredeemed man participates in it because he has taken sides with the Devil. God is not willing that any should perish. He wants all to come to repentance (2 Peter 3.9). It is against His urgent entreaties that men opt to go to Hell. He even went to a cross in order to redeem us from sin. But men refuse to submit to God. They refuse to accept the awfulness of their condition as sinners and as evil (Luke 11.13). They refuse treatment. What would you say of a man with a highly contagious disease who deliberately went into a children's nursery and passed his deadly disease on to the children? And yet this is what we as sinners do all the time. We pass our sin on to our children, not only by birth, but by our bad example. Thus God has to keep heaven free from sin, and there is only one way to do that, and that is by excluding untreated sinners. You must not, however, see Hell simply as a place of deliberate torture. There are no toasting forks in Hell. It is a place of outer darkness, exclusion from the light which, if they ever experienced it, would in itself in their sinful condition be extreme torture.It is a place of loss. It is a place of burning remorse. But even there some are 'beaten with many stripes' and others are 'beaten with few stripes' (Luke 12.47-48). Thus God behaves justly in all His dealings. I am not sure why dying in the Holocaust should entitle people to special treatment. It was an awful fate. But men through the centuries have suffered awful fates. It is the consequence of man's inhumanity to man. Like all of us they will be judged on the basis of whether they sought treatment from the Great Physician, our Lord Jesus Christ. Best wishes |