Re: Things that the Bible doesn't say -
12-04-2008, 06:03 PM
God doesn't send anyone to hell. We send ourselves to hell by disobeying Him.
Scripture not only doesn't say this, but indeed repeatedly says the opposite. God is more than a passive observer of sinners' damnation; He is, after all, God:
Mark 4:11-12: And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all [these] things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and [their] sins should be forgiven them.
Romans 1:24, 26, 28: Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves .... For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature .... And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient ....
Romans 8:29-30: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (Obviously, not everyone is predestinated, called, justified, or glorified; otherwise, this passage would make no sense, particularly in the context of the Bible as a whole or the very idea of hell.)
2 Thess. 2:11-12: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Morover, if God does send some people to hell rather than let them go there themselves, what's it to you?
Romans 9:19-21: Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
As Pastor PD has so sagely pointed out, this is the New Testament, which the touchy-feely-huggy-kissy liberal "Christians" seem to think is all kittens and lollipops.
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