Post on 24-Feb-2016
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How can a loving God send people to Hell?
Can God just do anything He wants?
Truth?SubjectiveRelativeAbsolute
Truth Either there is a God who created us
or there is not
Either the Bible is His revelation to usor it is not.
You either approach Him through Jesus Christor you do not
Relative and Subjective Truth?
Lies are intended to look and sound like truth
SubjectiveRelative
Truth
Doesn’t ask much, no response is
needed.
AbsoluteTruth
Requires a response
TruthJohn 14:6
“Jesus answered him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the
Father except through me.”
Jesus said: “I tell you the truth” 75 times!
Hell?
Lake of fire?
Hell?
Good People?
Is it relative?Absolute Standards?
Absolute Standards
We are sinnersRomans 3:23
“Because all people have sinned, they have fallen short
of God’s glory.”
Character of God
LoveJustHoly
Character of God, Just and HolyPsalm 9:16
“The Lord is known by the judgment He has carried out. The wicked person is trapped
by the work of his own hands.”
Character of God, Just and HolyPsalm 11:7
“The Lord is righteous. He loves a righteous
way of life.”
Character of God, Love2 Peter 3:9
“He doesn’t want to destroy anyone but wants all people to
have an opportunity to turn to Him and change the way they think and
act.”
Character of God, Love and JustPsalm 101:1
“I will sing about mercy and justice. O Lord, I will
make music to praise you.”
“God made you ‘little lower than angels’; sin has made you little better than the
devil.”Joseph Alleine
Character of GodLoving and Just
What is God to do?
Character of GodLoving and Just
Romans 5:8
“Christ died for us while we were still sinners. This
demonstrates God’s love for us.”
How can a loving God send people to Hell?
No He does not
God sends people to heavenRomans 10:9-13
Sin is hell begun;
Relationship with God is heaven anticipated!
Should we say people are sending themselves to hell?
Do people choose hell?
CS Lewis“I willingly believe that the damned are in one sense,
successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside. All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there
could be no hell.”
Heaven
Or
Hell
God offers heaven
People are refusing to follow God to heaven!
Moral RestraintHas value