Bible Question:
Being new here, please forgive me if I've over-looked any rules. I did several searches for this and found no answer. I'm just now beginning to try to learn more about His word, so I have confusion on some things. This morning I was listening to our local Christian radio program, and maybe I lost my train of thought, but I honestly believe one of the hosts said that (maybe jokingly?) no one would be going to hell, then he quoted Romans 14:11 "Every knee shall bow...". Tonight I've done some searching and found 2 more verses saying the same thing; Isaiah 45:21 and Philippians 2:9-11. So if I take these verses literally (KJV), is this true? Thanks so much for any help/advice you can give me. tonyab |
Bible Answer: Greetings Tonyah, The verses from Romans and Philippians do say that all will acknowledge the Lord, but for those who died or came to this point in their sins will be judged according to their deeds and not according to God's salvation that is found in His Son. There is a verse in Isaiah and Paul repeats the idea (I'm sorry, I'm not sure where they are located) that all Israel will be saved. I'm not sure how this is going to happen. I'm not sure the statements mean all of physical Israel, the actual physical descendants of the original 12 tribes along with the Christians, or if these 2 statements mean the gentile Christians and only the descendants of Jacob who have believed in God's Messiah (those who looked toward His coming and those who have believed in Him since He came some 2000 years ago). Since the gentiles have been grafted into the commonwealth of Israel I tend to lean toward the second idea. |