Apology accepted. Hope whatever put you in a bad mood is resolved.
Let us continue with discussion of the attempt to harmonize hell with divine love--an insight gleaned from Scripture and extra-biblical writers that seems logical to me, but what do you think?
Here it is again:
This is how hell jibes with love:
MFW only exists when there is the possibility of choosing between two qualitatively opposite moral options that we call good and evil. These options are opposites because of essentially different consequences for choosing them. Choosing good results in blessing, life and heaven; and choosing evil results in cursing, death and hell (DT 30:19). This is why hell as well as heaven exists. It is the just consequence for choosing evil rather than God.
The Spirit of God is good: love, peace and joy (GL 5:22-23). Therefore, whoever rejects the Lord is spiritually separated from Him (IS 59:2) and thereby chooses the evil or satanic spirit of hatred, strife and misery and reaps the just consequence called “hell” in the afterlife (GL 6:7-9, HB 9:27-28). These options were presented by Moses to the Israelites (DT 30:19), and Jesus referred to this fundamental choice in terms of a fish or egg versus a snake or scorpion (LK 11:11-13). Life… or Curse? (GN 3:24, RV 22:1-2)
God created theoretical evil or the possibility of rejecting Him as an option that actualizes MFW/free human personality. As such it is necessary and even good (GN 1:31). Of course, it was wrong for Satan (1JN 3:8) and humanity (RM 5:12) to make evil actual by choosing to Sin or reject Faith in God’s Lordship. Sin: ignoring God/God’s Word.
God loves a cheerful giver (2CR 9:7), which means He desires people to cooperate with Him happily because of love and gratitude for His grace rather than to cower before Him because of fear of hell. Love must be evoked; it cannot be coerced. And again, when souls sin or do NOT choose to love God freely, it is perfectly just (loving and logical) for them to reap the appropriate consequence (GL 6:7-9) or hell.
“when souls sin or do NOT choose to love God freely, it is perfectly just (loving and logical) for them to reap the appropriate consequence (GL 6:7-9) or hell.”
yeah I agree God has been telling mankind the same thing from the beginning it’s how you can tell it’s accurate he’s always been saying the same things to us . All I had said was he doesn’t love Satan. He loves mankind. Who Satan tries to kill and devours skews astray
He warned us about it in the beginning
“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 2:17 KJV
then we see already the firstborn man is caught in a battle of good and evil thoughts and desires and motivations inwardly but we also note later in scripture his brother works we’re righteous and he was accepted by the lord as he had told cain he would be if he did what’s right. And warned if he did kept doing wrong sin wouod get him and he needed” to rule over sin “
“Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?
But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door;
it desires to have you, but
you must rule over it.””
Genesis 4:6-7 NIV
That part of his message to
Man “ you repent of doing evil and do good “ has never changed from cain to those alive today. It’s oresent tbroughiut the Bible nearly every page like black and white . Many phrases and angles are used in different books but always the message is the same to mankind “ repent and do what’s good and right in the eyes of God “
and there’s good reason because also on those same repetetive pages is this
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is
the whole duty of man. For
God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 KJV
Because he’s always said the same thing even in Christ who we know and is that judge we must face
“For
we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that
every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.”
2 Corinthians 5:10-11 KJV
“But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for
we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord,
every knee shall bow to me, And every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”
Romans 14:10-12
i think what makes it just in my mind is t
hat Gods always been the exact same he says his word to man and it will always come to pass. He’s always warned us of evil and taught us to do good becaue we all have to be judged by our deeds in the end
“And I saw
the dead, small and great,
stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and
the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and
hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.”
Revelation 20:12-13 KJV
He wants us to repent and believe and be saved have our sins remitted in Christ ect instead of being among the dead
To me at least.
