Perspectives
God is a farmer who is reaping a harvest in a field of people. He has sown seed and he
will gather in the fruitful crop.
We think of hell as punishment. But in a sense Hell is just the elimination of that which does
not work. When the veil is removed and we see God face to face, only the righteous will
stand, the rest will be destroyed. To behold the King without a pure heart is torture.
The internal struggles destroy the very being of the individual, nothing works because their
state of being denies the very needs and truth they are.
As beings we are very fragile, we need to reflect the King to whom we belong.
This is why I hold to a hell of annihilation rather than torture, because as humans we are
not in a state of knowledge of the Lord, but created to be like Him. We cannot exist without
this reflection. Why are we trascended in worship, why do our hearts soar, why do we know
His presence and the touch of His love?
Life is a gift, and sinners have one life to experience its bounty. Out of this the elect rise.
The Lord knows from the beginning of time the harvest he would bring in, and the limitations
of all its fragility and beauty. The harvest to eternity is worth the cost of the lost.
God opens the door for all, yet only the elect cross it. Which perspective you choose it
is all part of the same thing.
This makes me realise the dispute is not even a dispute, because often both are right, but
each persons emotional perspective leads them to one or other as their option.
In the fog of seeing two worlds, the insanity of sin, and the glory of God, people choose
a path. What you see ahead is just the next step, because without being changed the
rest does not make sense and one cannot grasp it. Such is the truth of the way.
He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
1 Peter 1:20
“This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.”
Luke 9:35
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
John 15:16