As a Christian, I hold the Bible to be the inerrant Word of God. I believe that God exists and as the creator of all that is, his will, his statements, his commands on how his creation operates is of utmost importance. The other day I was listening to some supposed atheists. I say “supposed” because they had not done much research on what atheists believe. They simply said that they did not believe in God. Since they did not believe in God his rules for living, his commands to follow his Son, do not apply to them. They concluded that they were free from any threat of hell or wrath of God because they simply do not believe in God.
As the discussion advanced, one of the atheists said that he was not going to hell anyway, because God is love. God is love and this atheist did not consider his criminal behavior any worse than the next person, and since God is love, God was not going to send anyone to hell.
The problem with this is clear. An atheist cannot make statements about who God is or what God believes or what God will do, else that person is not an atheist, but a theist.
The problem with all this is that people today try and figure out who or what God is and then apply their guesses to the eternal God. This is very unscientific for one. No one would sit at home and try and invent driving laws and traffic laws that fit their desires. No one would then take those ideas and try and apply them to the real world. If a person wants to know about God, they need to do research and figure out what God has said and revealed. If they want, they can study the various approaches to God made by the Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists and Christians. All established religious groups have publicly published their beliefs. So if someone wanted to really discover what God is all about, the information is available, for free.
Yet most people are vague theists. They believe there probably is a God and he will do whatever they want him to do. God becomes their puppet or their servant when it comes to eternal matters. The problem with that is that God is the sovereign king of the universe and he had presented his requirements, for free, for all to read and experience. At the end of time, Jesus Christ will sit on a throne and he will judge people, not based on their own desires of what they hope God is, but on God’s eternal Word. Most people will be cast in the LOF (lake of fire) for rejecting Jesus. They will experience the full force of God’s wrath for all eternity. The fewer will go into the wedding feast with Jesus Christ and life in glory with him forever. There are only 2 destinations at the end of time. How we live today, will determine which one we go to for all eternity.
As the discussion advanced, one of the atheists said that he was not going to hell anyway, because God is love. God is love and this atheist did not consider his criminal behavior any worse than the next person, and since God is love, God was not going to send anyone to hell.
The problem with this is clear. An atheist cannot make statements about who God is or what God believes or what God will do, else that person is not an atheist, but a theist.
The problem with all this is that people today try and figure out who or what God is and then apply their guesses to the eternal God. This is very unscientific for one. No one would sit at home and try and invent driving laws and traffic laws that fit their desires. No one would then take those ideas and try and apply them to the real world. If a person wants to know about God, they need to do research and figure out what God has said and revealed. If they want, they can study the various approaches to God made by the Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists and Christians. All established religious groups have publicly published their beliefs. So if someone wanted to really discover what God is all about, the information is available, for free.
Yet most people are vague theists. They believe there probably is a God and he will do whatever they want him to do. God becomes their puppet or their servant when it comes to eternal matters. The problem with that is that God is the sovereign king of the universe and he had presented his requirements, for free, for all to read and experience. At the end of time, Jesus Christ will sit on a throne and he will judge people, not based on their own desires of what they hope God is, but on God’s eternal Word. Most people will be cast in the LOF (lake of fire) for rejecting Jesus. They will experience the full force of God’s wrath for all eternity. The fewer will go into the wedding feast with Jesus Christ and life in glory with him forever. There are only 2 destinations at the end of time. How we live today, will determine which one we go to for all eternity.
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