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NASB | 1 Peter 2:8 and, "A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE"; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 2:8 and, "A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE"; for they stumble because they disobey the word [of God], and to this they [who reject Him as Savior] were also appointed. [Is 8:14] |
Bible Question: 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? |
Bible Answer: God created us hoping that we would spend eternity with Him in Heaven, but He gave us that choice to make. If we believe and confess in Him, then we will be saved. If we don't, we go to hell. Luke 13:5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish." John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 10:9-10 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. [10] For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. If you don't know whether you are saved or not, then I suggest you get to a good Bible-believing Church. If you are saved, you WILL go to Heaven and you will not have "to accept that we may have to suffer forever". |