Consider that those who are wailing and gnashing teeth do not consider it good news to discover they were wrong all along.
Do you think it much different for a person who is opposed to God to find out they were wrong?
Some may submit readily, or in relief, after God has done His work in them. Others? Not so much.
Many tell of resisting tooth and nail. We know what that means. Very reluctant converts!
BUT... afterwards? Extremely grateful that God rescued them.
Although some call it being kidnapped against their will and say God is a tyrant for acting unilaterally.
I mean... how dare He take possession of that which is His???
“Consider that those who are wailing and gnashing teeth do not consider it good news to discover they were wrong all along.”
the news is good for every mortal
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
John 5:24 KJV
It doesn’t change the good news because some reject it and receive the damnation in it does it ?
Does this make the word bad ?
“
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him:
the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.”
John 12:48 KJV
It’s this same word
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,
hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
The news is good.
“Do you think it much different for a person who is opposed to God to find out they were wrong?”
i dont understand what your asking sister.
“The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there were any that did understand, And seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: There is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
Psalm 14:2-3 KJV
We we’re all Opposed to God until we repented and believed
“wherein
in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to
the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among
whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”
Ephesians 2:2-3 KJV
“And
you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled”
Colossians 1:21 KJV
We were all at one time opposed to god we sort of need to inderersnd tbat or we won’t ever repent and let his words change our mind and heart .
“Some may submit readily, or in relief, after God has done His work in them. Others? Not so much.”
ye I think I agree I’d say tbis that God is
being patient with mankind hoping we will
listen to him believe and repent before it’s too late
“
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but
is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9 KJV
“Or despisest thou the riches of
his goodness and forbearance and
longsuffering; not knowing that
the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Romans 2:4 KJV
“BUT... afterwards? Extremely grateful that God rescued them. “
indeed paul comes to mind actually became a dedicated follower of Jesus after.
“Although some call it being kidnapped against their will and say God is a tyrant for acting unilaterally.
I mean... how dare He take possession of that which is His???”
yeah I don’t believe god acts against man’s free Will I believe he heals thier Will through the gospel changing it from sin to righteousness if they don’t reject his word
i don’t think what you said really equates to a kidnapping lol god works on us . So we will start acting right ourselves because we’re grateful and have actually heard and believed what he really is saying to us in the gospel what he said is what’s going to actually come to pass.
Do you notice a theme sister
At creation
“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And the LORD God took the man, and
put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God
commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
but
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.”
Genesis 2:9, 15-17 KJV
under the law
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore
choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
Deuteronomy 30:19 KJV
after Jesus fuflilled the law
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Mark 16:15-16
God doesn’t change
we have to he always gives us a choice always offers us a way out