Subj : Re: Angels and demons
To   : jimmylogan
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Sep 02 2025 17:30:43

Jimmy,

 ji> Have you considered that hell is a choice? If someone says, "I don't
 ji> want to have anything to do with a God that would do this" is
 ji> basically getting their wish?

  In that regard, "God is being a Gentleman"...giving folks what they
want.

 ji> The point is that we are all 'guitly' - and God in the form of
 ji> man, Jesus the Christ, took the punishment for all that guilt.
 ji> You say He takes no responsibility - but I say He took the
 ji> ULTIMATE responsibility and took the punishment, the weight,
 ji> the suffering.

 ji> And then He STILL loves you enough to let you decide if you
 ji> want to accept the pardon offered or not.

  Folks resent the fact that "It's God's Creation, and it's His
Rules". Yet, as the Apostle Paul noted in 1 Corinthians 1:18, "The
Preaching Of The Cross is to them who perish (die in their sins),
foolishness and stupidity. But to the saved, it is the Power of
Almighty God".

  As the late Hal Lindsey noted, "If the believers ON Jesus, and NOT 
just IN Him are wrong...the most we'll lose are a few petty sins,
which don't make anyone happy, anyway. But, if the unbeliever is
wrong...they will spend eternally paying the debt...that they gambled
with their soul, and lost it!!".

  In short, one day, we will know who is right.

  The one thing God requires is to "believe on The One He has sent".
Yet, He does give each of us free will and choice to say YES or NO.
Basically, it takes no decision on anyone's part to go to Hell...but,
it DOES take a decision on one's part to go to Heaven. 

  At a church service years ago, this individual shouted out "I wish 
God would give me what I deserve!!"...and the preacher retorted "You 
had better be careful in what you ask...He just might do it". If all 
of us got what we deserve, we would've been stamped out of existence
long ago.

Daryl

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