BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
Good
question. He’s going to throw you into the literal flames of hell when
you go
into the next world, where he will keep you alive in order to burn you
forever.
You will be everlastingly tormented.
I’ll
explain that later. Your big problem is that you have no idea of who
God is and
his two natures.
It’s
hard for man to comprehend, but God has two sides, two complete
opposites - total
wrath and total love. God loves himself and his rules and standards and
anyone
else who does as well, and he absolutely hates anyone who doesn’t.
No
you don’t. If you did, you would not have broken any of his rules
called the Ten
Commandments.
Correct!
And that’s why you are going to hell. And that’s his rules. I didn’t
make them.
Correct!
But that’s only one side of his nature. The other side is his
love, and that
can’t be understood either.
When
Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the garden of Eden, God made a place in
the
middle of the earth of hot molten lava to burn them forever, such that
they
can’t commit suicide and die. Of course they deserved it, but if God
did that there
wouldn’t be any human race. One of God’s rules is as follows:
“For the life of the flesh is
in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an
atonement
for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the
soul.”
(Leviticus 17:11).
Correct! It’s not the God you know anything about.
Your God is this lovey-dovey sort of Santa Claus in the sky who is
just
waiting to fulfil your every wish.
And this carried on for the whole of the Old
Testament till God saw that Israel was just going through motions of
animal
sacrifice without a grateful heart toward God and his grace and mercy.
God then shut up shop on Israel, didn’t talk to
them for about 400 years, and left them alone in order they would all
get
diseased, down-trodden, weighed down by sin, palsied, devil-infested
and wretched
… to name just a few bad consequences of their previous, or lack
thereof,
actions.
God
himself then came down to earth as a man, the Lord Jesus Christ, and
got
Israel’s attention by healing all and sundry of every ailment.
So
Jesus Christ, God himself in the flesh, sits them down and gives them
an
impossible set of rules that they must keep perfectly, the sermon on
the mount,
to which there are howls of protest as they were to hard.
God
knew all this in advance, and kicks into action plan B and says to
Israel, that
if they would believe that he, Christ, would keep the rules perfectly
on their
behalf, and still go up to the temple to shed animal blood for their
sins, when
they died they could go, not into heaven, but into a place under the
earth
called Abraham’s bosom.
You’re
right again. I mean God is perfectly happy in heaven. Why did he need
to go
through all this thing of creating men, who couldn’t keep his laws, so
he had
to come down and keep them on their behalf! Please!!! You tell me?
So
then, in spite of healing them all, they rejected him and sent him to a cross. And
he’s
still loving them.
If
nothing else, you’ve have to hand it to Jesus for what he did. But
here’s the
thing. Israel didn’t know that just like God said in the Old Testament
he’d let
them kill an animal for it’s blood payment to himself, God allows
himself to go
to the cross as a blood substitute for their sins. Now, you have to
admit
that’s love!
UNIVERSE,
COMES TO EARTH AS A
SACRIFICIAL LAMB FOR THEIR SINS!”
God
just didn’t go to the cross for Israel’s sins, he went to the cross and
shed
his own blood for your sins as well.
My
dear fellow, you don’t understand. God made you! He owns you! He can do
whatever he like with you! And furthermore, he doesn’t care too hoots
about
whether you believe he did all this for you or not.
If
you could only grasp the enormity of this thing! Because you’re a child
of
Adam, we can trace your ancestry right back to him, and Adam became a
sinner,
his sin ‘virus’, just like a computer virus, got handed down through the
countless
generations, such that you were born a sinner. That’s why you sin.
SO?
You
must change back to having God as your father. If you will believe that
God
loved you so much to die in your place and take the penalty for your
sins, such
that you will not go and burn in hell, God can become your father
again.
That’s
what it means to be saved. Saved from God’s wrath of hell because of
his love
on the cross, paying your sin penalty.
WELL THAT’S A NICE STORY, I’LL HAVE A THINK … MAYBE
Yes,
you still don’t get it do you?
All
this happened outside of you.
You
became a sinner through Adam and his disobedient work.
You
can get right with God through Jesus Christ and his obedience to God.
It’s
like are you sitting in the movies and watching all this on the big screen.
Harley Hitchcock
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