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'Proving' hell & eternal damnation takes longer than a
Posted on: October 5, 2017 at 10:41:56 CT
JeffB MU
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post on a discussion forum. Seek and you shall find, however.
In outline form it would be along the lines of:
There is a God.
God created the universe and everything in it.
God created man and the angels in His image and likeness, with the ability to choose good and evil.
Lucifer, one of the greatest of the angels abused his free will and chose evil, and induced other angels to follow him in choosing evil.
They were thrown out of the kingdom of heaven.
Man abused that God given free will and chose evil, falling for the lies and deception of Lucifer/Satan, breaking his intimate relationship with God.
God promised to send a redeemer to mankind, the Messiah, to offer a means to reestablish the intimate relationship between God & man, despite the tragic choice our first parents made in choosing evil.
God became man in the Person of Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah, to proclaim the good news and to open the gates of heaven for those who would believe Him and walk in Truth, Love and Justice.
It is now up to each person to decide whether to search for God, to find Him, and to walk with Him in obedience and love... or to listen to Satan, a liar and a murderer from the beginning.
God's choice from the Sacred Scriptures echoes down to us today:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2030:15-20
15 “See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil. 16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God[a] which I command you this day, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you this day, that you shall perish; you shall not live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length of days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
In outline form it would be along the lines of:
There is a God.
God created the universe and everything in it.
God created man and the angels in His image and likeness, with the ability to choose good and evil.
Lucifer, one of the greatest of the angels abused his free will and chose evil, and induced other angels to follow him in choosing evil.
They were thrown out of the kingdom of heaven.
Man abused that God given free will and chose evil, falling for the lies and deception of Lucifer/Satan, breaking his intimate relationship with God.
God promised to send a redeemer to mankind, the Messiah, to offer a means to reestablish the intimate relationship between God & man, despite the tragic choice our first parents made in choosing evil.
God became man in the Person of Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah, to proclaim the good news and to open the gates of heaven for those who would believe Him and walk in Truth, Love and Justice.
It is now up to each person to decide whether to search for God, to find Him, and to walk with Him in obedience and love... or to listen to Satan, a liar and a murderer from the beginning.
God's choice from the Sacred Scriptures echoes down to us today:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2030:15-20
15 “See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil. 16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God[a] which I command you this day, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you this day, that you shall perish; you shall not live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length of days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
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