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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 not create people to send to Hell. Hell is reserved for the devils: Mt 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: God created Adam and Eve out of love: Jo 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Because God is Love He want to express His love, as love without expressing it is not love at all but selfisness. So God want to express His love He created us to share with His glory. Hell is not the part of the plan of God for man, if we read the Gen God prepared a very good habitat for man, no sickness, no death. Because God is Love He created human being with free will not like a robot but a human being "created in his likeness" a human being that have a power to choose and to love. Death and suffering is a consequences of disobedience of adam and eve. If our love one will suffer forever it is in the hand of God He is just If we remember that there were no more suffering in Heaven: Re 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. So if we are in heaven, then we sorrow about our love ones in hell, Re 21:4 will be a lie, as it was written there will no crying. God is justice, maybe we dont decern anything happened, we dont know really everything in the minds of God, but faith will help us, and He will show to us everything if we are in heaven. This questions of ours will be answered 1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. God bless, Johnny |