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NASB | Romans 9:20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 9:20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers [arrogantly] back to God and dares to defy Him? Will the thing which is formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" [Is 29:16; 45:9] |
Subject: The Purpose of Hell? |
Bible Note: Art: God did not HAVE to provide a way for us. He chose to do so out of the kind intention of His will (Ephesians 1:4,11). While it is true that those condemned to hell cannot blame God for their choice, it is indeed God who condemns them for their rebellious choice. He is very much the one who acts as righteous Judge and damns the sinner to hell: "A good man will obtain favor from the LORD, But He will condemn a man who devises evil." --Proverbs 12:2 "But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." --Matthew 12:36-37 "But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world." --1 Corinthians 11:32 "For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter; and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment." --2 Peter 2:4-9 God is the one who justly condemns people. Sinners seek to justify themselves. God is the one who will actively judge. The sin is the sinner's, but the verdict and sentence is God's. To say anything else does not glorigy God in His justice. --Joe! |